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There's a really good community feature on here called groups. It works like this:

1. Follow a group's account
2. You will start seeing posts on that topic
3. You can post to the group by @-ing it

It's more powerful than hashtag following, as all group posts are actively pushed to all of the group's members. No one misses anything.

Find out more about groups at fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on

If you're interested, try following one of the friendly active groups curated at fedi.directory/tag/fediverse-g

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p.s. I've rewritten the post so that it no longer mentions the tea group, as people were replying to the original post with the tea address included. This was filling the tea group with non-tea posts, as the group shares any post which mentions the group.

Apologies to the tea group for my carelessness and thoughtlessness.

For those interested in following the group, it's @ tea @ a.gup.pe with the spaces removed.

@feditips Great that that happened! It exposes a significant flaw in the system. It was the 1st question that came to mind when I learned about groups. If Bob is a member of the tea group, surely not all Bob’s posts would be about tea, so it would make sense that Bob should have to mention the tea address in every tea-related post. The bot should only boost _members_ who _mention_ the bot.

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Groups only boost posts that mention the group, whether they're members or not. If Bob doesn't mention the group, it won't boost his posts.

But groups only boosting members' posts sounds like a great idea, as it would allow non-members to discuss the group without spamming it.

Hey @datatitian, could Guppe perhaps only boost posts by members? Or would that cause technical issues? On the other hand... might confuse non-members who think they've posted?

@feditips
> On the other hand... might confuse non-members who think they've posted?

That could be solved by messaging the mentioner if they are not in the group to ask if they would like to join and post.
@punchescars @datatitian