Groups are not new to Pixelfed, we have webUI support but the feature wasn't polished enough for use, until now

Groups will be compatible with Lemmy, Mbin, Smithereen and other projects, and will resemble Facebook Groups in our official app!

groups.

october pixelfed
seventh social

the new social pub, with friends.

@pixelfed + piefed

Pixelfed Groups are here (thanks to funding from @nlnet) and I'm working on adding support for Piefed too!

You can expect a blog post explaining how to enable and use this huge new feature in pixelfed, later this weekend

**knock on door**
me: hello, who is there
groups: hey, we have your order from 2021

damn, it's time

I will make a separate Pixelfed Groups app, considering it's significantly different than our core photo/video sharing feature

Pixelfed Groups have their own notifications, main feed and data structures

A separate app would benefit in many ways, including easier group administration, simpler UI and support for non-core features like markdown, link preview cards and more!

Once I finalize the API this weekend, any other MastoAPI compatible server will be able to use the groups app too!

There are a lot of new aspects that Groups bring to Pixelfed that are similar to existing microblogging platforms, such as:

- Text only posts
- Quote posts
- Markdown support
- Link cards
- Polls

And more exotic features like:
- Events
- Anonymous Posts (if enabled)
- Multi tenant/dual layer moderation
- Realtime Group Chat

They add significant complexity, but we’re doing this properly, following best practices

It will be worth it, just wait and see

Still working hard to ship Groups this weekend!

Can't wait

Pixelfed Groups + Lemmy + Kbin + Smithereen

We're implementing federation support in Groups before we ship this huge feature!

Still working hard on Pixelfed Groups!

While refactoring Pixelfed Groups, I wrote a new media processing pipeline that supports libvips and more formats, as well as the logic that handles optimizations, it no longer strips exif data and preserves color profiles and HDR support

It also uploads to S3 and deletes the local copy during the request lifecycle!

I plan on using this in the main app too

Pixelfed Groups will allow admins to have fine-grained ACL permissions, you will be able to limit specific user permissions!

In addition, admins will have the ability to review all moderation actions from other mods/admins and all actions from the account.

Later we plan to ship support for webhooks, allowing admins to deeply integrate Groups into their platforms or services!

Pixelfed Groups will support Lemmy and other projects

Groups may ship without support for every platform, however our goal is to support every fediverse Groups implementation!

Thanks to @NGIZero for funding our Groups feature

https://nlnet.nl/project/Pixelfed-Groups/

Pixelfed Groups are coming along, and I'm hoping to ship v1 this weekend!

We're targeting Lemmy support and the Groups FEP for now, I cant wait to ship this

def going to be an interesting week

I want to thank @NGIZero for funding the development of Groups!

It's wild that Groups are finally coming to Pixelfed in the next few days

There are over 8K LoC for Pixelfed Groups atm, and that will likely double in the coming months (mobile apps, federation, etc...)

It's the most complex feature we've ever shipped, and we've pioneered several mod and safety tools to enable the best experience across Pixelfed instances

Rest assured, I will show the fediverse how it's done

Pixelfed Groups will be compatible with Lemmy, Smithereen and other platforms!

Groups will be coming to our official mobile apps later this summer

Pixelfed Groups will bring a whole new dimension and experience, I can't wait to ship this monumental feature!