@kushal Good to hear that, Kushal!

I have been so busy with many online activities, that book reading has fallen down in priority. Motivates to hear your recommendation, TY!

@ghostdancer Ah, the credit for creating Guppe Groups is not mine, I just made used the ssoftware and created the group for the Book Club, plus these two posts to show people how it works.

The project is William's, located at https://github.com/wmurphyrd/guppe

I haven't used GNUsocial, and it's nice if it supported the group creation and usage. It's one of the best thing in Facebook, the groups; some are quite informative and active.

@design_RG In GNUsocial/Statusnet you could subscribe to groups, they were marked with the "!" prefix d were really useful when you wanted to follow news about something but maybe not follow someone or to filter the posts you were interested. Didn't know someone had implemented them for mastodon , so thanks for the info and for making me aware of it.

@ghostdancer You are very welcome, I came across the project by chance, seeing a post by William and starting to try and use it.

It's still in Alpha phase, but seems to work fine. We will need some moderation, controls to list access before a wider deployment; for now it could be spammed to death, sadly. But William is doing good work on it.

William is at : @datatitian

@design_RG That also was the problem with groups in GNUsocial , but as we were just a happy few it worked mostly :-) @datatitian

@ghostdancer
Ah -- good to know. I think the Facebook Groups feature are the best they have at their site. It allows focused discussions, and full moderation, different privacy selections, etc. Well done, I enjoyed some good groups there, with knowledgeable users.

But haven't visited the site lately or posted in many months; just leaving my stuff there for now, but not adding any content.

The Book Club group at Hackers.town seems to be working well, I as happy to see that since I made the push for it to use this as a channel. Much nicer than a hashtag alone, and each participant gets personally notified of any new posts.

@datatitian