The beta for groups will release later this week, which won’t be federated initially. Federation will be added afterwards.
Looks like it will have some interesting features like videos, polls, and events, as well as moderator tools like limiting what a user can do.
Some links:
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110931821965407984
https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/110931868347117511
I hope Lemmy eventually picks up more features like polls. I miss natively embedding polls.
And I hope you can view the result WITHOUT HAVING TO SIGN IN REDDIT/TWITTER HMMMM
Looks smooth and I can see a lot of good things about this, but I also hope it doesn’t slowly shift Pixelfed away from being an image sharing site. I really don’t want my feed over there cluttered up with other things than photography and occasional traditional art - polls and text posts is just not what I’m there for.
Still, I’m sure they’ve thought about that, and there’s some great potential for art groups. :)
God forbid our endless feed of cat pictures and black and white telephone poles gets polluted!
I just saw this response. Our telephone poles are safe - text posts will be groups only.
Yet it still can’t handle video uploads from an iPhone simply because the video formats are hardcoded to mp4.
I believe the PR for it is nearing a year old now
Nice
great news!
