So, for all you new users, there's this OStatus thing called "groups", which is indicated with a bang ( ! ), where you can follow, say, a topic (music, security, crypto, games and whatnot), or a specific thing (emacs, coffee etc.), or even a greeting (the tzag group for Time Zone Appropriate Greetings), regardless of who posts about it.

It's a pretty powerful tool, all things considered, and !fediverse and !fedgroups may be of interest for exploring what's out there.

Also, for all you infosec peeps there's of course the !security group, there's also one for !musicians, for !ccmusic, for your current !listening habits, etc.

A limitation is that groups live on a specific instance, though I think there might be proposals to mitigate that...  

@pettter I've been trying that for awhile, doesn't seem to be compatible in any GNUsocial instance I've tried. It returns invalid XML. But works on my quitter.se account. We can follow non-group acounts though.

Did you have any success?

@yahananxie It seems that Mastodon doesn't have group support as of yet (but I hear it's coming). My instance is also a GNU Social (like the quitters), and works just fine, afaict.

Where are you getting the invalid XML from?
@pettter When trying to join fediverse and gnusocial groups from Mastodon, but I was able from GNUsocial/quitter.
@yahananxie Yeah, I thought Mastodon had already implemented them when posting, but turns out they're still on the TODO-list.