In the future, we plan to add end-to-end encrypted messaging and an exciting groups functionality to our software, together with further updates to our well-received official apps.
huh
@aescling wait “groups”?!?!?!?!!
@aescling eugen has opposed groups from day 1 so i am very interested in hearing more about this
@Lady now THAT is interesting
@aescling groups were originally a GNU social feature which used bangtags like !tea, i think working similar to how guppe groups operate now
mastodon staunchly refused to implement them
around the time when pleroma development was really kicking off i remember there were a lot of discussion about alternative ways of thinking of groups, but my understanding is that those discussions never went anywhere because there wasn’t good consensus on how they should be federated or administrated; i know @nightpool@cybre.space was involved in those discussions although i don’t know if they remember / want to say more
anyway this is very interesting because that blog post makes it sound like there is a Plan For Groups and i sure haven’t heard anything… is this being coordinated with other fediverse softwares? was there ever a consensus? am i just out of the loop?
