Does anybody know what happened to chirp.social beyond the fact that the domain has expired?
#chirpsocial #groups

Today (2024-02-29), https://chirp.social closed its doors.

Thank you for providing a good service!

If you haven't heard, sadly, #ChirpSocial, one of the popular #ActivityPub “groups” platform, is shutting down “probably” on February 29th.

In an email they sent to admins, the owner and developer can no longer support https://chirp.social financially as they failed to find a new job after they were laid off by #Google last year.

So, if you have a Chirp.Social groups, either move to #Guppe (https://a.gup.pe) (as suggested by Chirp.Social), or if I may, to #FediaIO (https://fedia.io), an #Mbin [flagship] instance.

This reminds us the importance of having a built-in groups feature, and one where the groups feature actually federates.

Back in 2008, when the #Fediverse was born, we did have a built-in federated groups in #Laconica / #StatusNet (today known as #GNUsocial). We used bang (!) instead of at (@). A built-in groups feature is more stable as established instances can host them.

Today, we have #Friendica and #Hubzilla (as well as #Streams-based instances) to fill in that, as groups is a built-in feature in those software products. It's just a matter of finding an instance that's open to hosting groups for any topic for the ActivityPub protocol.

That said, any Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams-based instances you suggest for groups?

Sad to read that chirp.social is closing down from 29 February. Always sad to see innovative services go.

We're here to help provide an alternative Group Boosting service.

We wish you well @mpuckett

I learn something new about the fediverse every day! Apparently there's a groups feature?!?!

I didn't join a #minecraft group first!

Shut up, you did.

@feditips

#ChirpSocial #fediverseGroups

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/

Thanks to @cmonster for setting up a #ChirpSocial discussion group for #BellinghamWA which you can follow here: @BellinghamWA! #pnw #whatcom #WhatcomCounty

There is now a Fediverse group about #ClimateJustice:

@ClimateJustice

Follow that group to see posts in your timeline.
Mention the group to spread your posts to the group.

I just had a bit of a look at kbin.social and I have to say, kbin looks really impressive!

If you've never heard of kbin, it's a fediverse platform specifically focusing on groups. Broadly speaking, similar to lemmy, the goal is to create a fediverse take on the reddit experience. However, kbin also integrates fediverse groups like gup.pe, chirp and friendica groups, and that is a killer feature as far as I'm concerned!

We've been running a lemmy instance for a few months now, but it might be time to look at spinning up our own kbin instance too!

#lemmy #kbin #fediverse #FediverseGroups #friendica #ChirpSocial #fedivangelism

Since #aguppe may be discontinued soon (see https://web.immers.space/2023/05/farewell-to-guppe/), I took a look at chirp.social today as an alternative #fediverse group service.

Basically #chirpsocial seems to be interesting. But why please can an email address only be associated with one #group? As long as I only manage a single group, this may not yet be a problem or make any difference. But if I understand it correctly, if I wanted to manage multiple groups on the site, I would have to have a separate mail address available for each of these groups. That seems to be quite impracticable to me. Or do I understand something wrong?