Exploring a New Group Tool for #Mastodon: Chirp Social
This post found its way into my timeline today via Lydia Croupe, and I was thrilled to see it.
There’s a new groups system for the Fediverse called chirp.social. More info at:
You can join a group by following the group account. You can post to the group by @-ing the group account, which then reposts that to all its other followers
It is similar to the existing https://a.gup.pe system, but chirp.social allows a group manager to delete posts and ban people from the group.
It works on all Fediverse platforms including Mastodon.
#Fediverse #Mastodon
As you can see, this approach has a few exciting advantages over Guppe groups:
- Delete Posts
- Ban people
This has been a problem with some Guppe groups, so I’m glad to see there is an alternative. Does that mean there will be a mass migration from Guppe to Chirp Social? Maybe.
Setting Up the EduTooter Group
For fun, I went ahead and set up the EduTooter group - @EDUTOOTER@CHIRP.SOCIAL - and I plan to invite folks to follow this group instead of the old Guppe Group (@edutooters@a.gup.pe)
Howdy #edutooter @edutooters@a.gup.pe folks. I’d like to invite you to FOLLOW @EDUTOOTER@CHIRP.SOCIAL a new group.
Please boost this for K-16 #educator #edtech #K12librarian #librarian #GoogleEdu #MicrosoftEDU and others who fall into that.
This group via Chirp Social offers some controls that can help us avoid issues/problems going forward as more folks come online.
What groups do you imagine you will create?
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