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So I've been thinking how we could sanely modify groups here at QOTO all day. Closest we have right now in the fediverse is gup.pe which does a pretty good job but the problem is there is no moderation. Anyone can join a group or post to a group and there is no way to exclude bad actors. Its completely automated no moderator.
I think if I were to fork the source code and get it working it would be pretty trivial to make it into a working framework. Just design it so whoever first creates a group is the owner. They can give others privilages or take it away, as well as ban people via remote commands.
Not sure if i have the time to take on that project but it wouldnt be more than a few days work.
I guess the real question is... how desperate are the people on #QOTO for groups? Would it even be worth my time?
@freemo Sound like a nice feature which might even profit someone on a different instance. How about patching it upstream? Might be worth exploring.
@sozialwelten I dont think it would be easy to integrate into mastodon itself. I would likely need to fork Gup.pe in which case it would exist as its own instance and used by external users much like gup.pe would be used.
@freemo Ah! Just from a quick look it reminds me of moderated groups on instagram for sharing works from professional photographers. I could imagine using groups for very specific common interests. Like a python group or similar.
@sozialwelten Id much prefer a built-in solution in mastodon but I'm not sure eugene has any plans for that. He seems dead set on just mimicing twitter and it seems intentional. So this seems like the best compromise I can think of that would be quick to develop
