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1. Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 03:10:51 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

   Groups are a really useful feature which let you follow discussions on particular topics. You follow a group to see discussions, and mention the group to post to it. More info:

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/

   If you're annoyed by high traffic groups, you can now combine them with Mastodon's Lists feature to keep them in their own separate mini-timelines (and not in your main timeline):

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon/

   Groups federate to all their followers, giving them a much wider reach than hashtags.

   • Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 06:10:40 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

     in reply to

     • F. Maury ⏚

     @x_cli

     Yeah, that's a good point!

     But hashtags have the drawback that their posts aren't actively pushed to everyone who follows them, as they aren't distributed by an account.

     I guess safest is to include both relevant tags and groups in a post?

   • F. Maury ⏚ (x_cli@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 06:10:41 JST F. Maury ⏚

     in reply to

     @feditips
     Thanks. I did not know about that sort of groups.
     One drawback I see is that such groups are centralized. If the provider goes dark, members would lose everything. Hashtags are decentralized by nature and thus would be more resilient. Am I missing something?