Hey @wmurphyrd 👋 I notice as of September 2025, the domains gup.pe and immers.space seem to have expired and a.gup.pe has been replaced with a WordPress installation full of SEO-targeted content ab...
I see good points in this comment, even if the analogy of their being like hashtags might be a little off.
gup.pe groups have a 1-word description. Most of them I’ve been unable to assign a topic to because I didn’t know what the word means or it has ambiguous meanings. Most have no posts. So they land in the “unknown” topic.
I always wondered what I would do if someone started posting porn or hate to them. It would be a nightmare. I’d just have to block the group, I suppose.
Frankly, instead of someone creating a gup.pe-like group, I think they ought to create a community in PieFed, MBIN, or Lemmy. gup.pe was an early experiment when there wasn’t a threadiverse.
I tested posting from Mastodon to test Lemmy communities on two different instances (szmer.info and fedit.pl). The toot arrived at fedit, but neither community reblogged the post into Mastodon.
Lemmy will not work as a Guppe alternative.
I see good points in this comment, even if the analogy of their being like hashtags might be a little off.
gup.pe groups have a 1-word description. Most of them I’ve been unable to assign a topic to because I didn’t know what the word means or it has ambiguous meanings. Most have no posts. So they land in the “unknown” topic.
I always wondered what I would do if someone started posting porn or hate to them. It would be a nightmare. I’d just have to block the group, I suppose.
Frankly, instead of someone creating a gup.pe-like group, I think they ought to create a community in PieFed, MBIN, or Lemmy. gup.pe was an early experiment when there wasn’t a threadiverse.
I’m fine without gup.pe or gup.pe replacements.
I tested posting from Mastodon to test Lemmy communities on two different instances (szmer.info and fedit.pl). The toot arrived at fedit, but neither community reblogged the post into Mastodon. Lemmy will not work as a Guppe alternative.