The fediverse really needs proper group support.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116001624064984982

The fediverse really needs proper group support. It's a serious omission that we still don't. Fediverse wide. No Friendica and Lemmy and Piefed do not have what is needed implemented yet.

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@liaizon you know what I also miss?
Nothing in social media has ever come close to the Facebook event. It was such a practical feature.
As for groups, they are also great. We have lists, and that's a good start.
But perhaps the folks at Mastodon are working on some of these things... @mellifluousbox 😉 💜

[veroandi@connexia.hibiol.eu]

@hpod16 @mellifluousbox @liaizon

Mobilizon is the most used event platform for the Fediverse. I don't know how it works on Facebook, so I can't say if it has the same features.

There is also the Event Federation project (event-federation.eu), which is supported by NLnet and funded by the EU.

The nice thing is that I use Friendica, which is different from Mastodon, and Friendica has a calendar option. Events that I see in my feed are automatically added to the calendar (see picture). There's room for improvement, such as the ability to define a region and see a list of attendees, but I guess it's only a matter of time before people start using federated event tools for event management.

[totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz]

@hpod16 @liaizon @mellifluousbox Just this morning, @eest9 told me that there is an Event object in the ActivityPub protocol. But Mastodon doesn't support proper interaction with it yet: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20407