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1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2017 02:38:21 EDT Danyl Strype
   #ShowerThought a way to make federated groups with existing #standards - allow users to 'follow' a #HashTag and receive any posts it's in
   1. INACTIVE (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2017 03:48:54 EDT INACTIVE

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      @strypey Nope. Been tried, doesn't work.

      The whole idea of groups is that they act as relays across domains, and can contain users that aren't necessarily subscribed to one another. It's a hack, in the sense that a group is just a side-stream of label-designated posts and responses.

      Federated tag systems are typically just an index for specific label terms that an instance has already collected, and typically relies on people already following one another and being connected.

      1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2017 08:23:33 EDT Danyl Strype

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         @deadsuperhero that sounds like implementation issues. From a #UX POV, subscribing to #HashTags is easier to understand than !groups
   2. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2017 03:49:48 EDT Bob Mottram

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      @strypey that appears to be how SSB works currently. Intuitively it makes sense.
   3. platano (platano@quitter.es)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2017 05:45:44 EDT platano

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      @strypey I wonder why nobody in history of social media did that feature, unless you count !gnusocial's groups?