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As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Frostwolf@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.

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[–] spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are actually not groups. Groups boost posts from all users that mention them. https://a.gup.pe/ is one implementation of groups with mastodon in mind, but lemmy communities actually work the same way when followed from mastodon. I believe other fediverse platforms implement groups in similar ways under the hood. This means that everything is more or less interoperable between platforms.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh you're right, I didn't realize there was a separate thing and that's a great feature too. I think the author needed to add whatever I was talking about then too.

[–] spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Very true. Following hashtags is a pretty essential feature.