Groups as both a formal ActivityPub spec and general concept deeply invigorate me. I previously wrote about group-to-group following (FEP-d36d) as the missing glue layer to successfully transition /r/rust to the threadiverse.
Today I wanna talk about what a common implementation of Groups as defined in FEP-1b12 can do for the fediverse at large.
I think I like it but for the idiots like me, the plan is to have “groups” around the fediverse that equate to sublemmys, and Mastodon users can post with them or not, but if they do it essentially creates a sublemmy that Lemmy users can also interact with.
And on Mastodon the benefit would be that you could subscribe to topics instead of users?