To begin with @Hypolite Petovan, the original idea is to offer for example to projects like @YunoHost :neopossum_box: or @Castopod :podcasting2: a profile on forum.friendi.ca, the same way our very @Friendica Support works.
Most #fediVerse platforms have profiles on their own platform and/or a #mastodon profile, because that's the kinda standard thought and behavior. But actually to me it looks like the #friendica #communityForum page capabilities exceed by far what mastodon or others have to offer. Well, I haven't digged into the fedi clone of reddit to see if that would be an even better option. What is true tho is that forum.friendi.ca is already long standing and our community has gone a long way, so there is in general terms "no single point of failure" like in other projects that depend on one main figure and that's it.

I consider our helpers community experience here, with all the followers of our helpers page getting resend the help requests posted to the forum, chiming in to help out and solve issues, very positive. So this is a proven setup and could help lot's of other projects out here too. Actually I do think that if implemented and adopted, it even could have a positive feed back loop for friendica itself, but that's like something on another page.

So having forum.friendi.ca already up and running, why not support the fediVerse community opening our doors to those who fulfill certain basic community standards?

This server here (tupambae.org) as well is only mend to be a forum server, and of course it's doors are open for any #fediPlatform that likes to have an own forum page over here, yet somehow to me it look's like forum.friendi.ca is the first natural and ideal candidate for something like that.

Of course same goes for a #fediAdmin, #activityPub or #APIdeveloppers community support forum, if that is desired or useful.

Right now in general terms the fedi lives on using some tags or maybe some a.gup.pe addresses, but it's actually us who hold and develop that option for more than a decade now inside the federation itself.

Was that more clarifying @hypolite?

@utopiArte Unfortunately some features of Friendica groups are only available from Friendica, like the !-mention that transfers post ownership to the forum account, which means it isn't distributed to your followers that don't also follow the group.

So I don't think it's a good all-purpose solution for the larger Fediverse.

Looks to me that I have to disagree @Hypolite Petovan in the sense that their may be certain specific extras only friendicans have, but that doesn't mean that the rest is available for others and that that is already a lot.

Actually my main experience and focus is with mastodon federation, and for what I can see, addressing forum pages I follow makes those toots show up on the forum page and is reflected back to federated instances of followers.
(or am I wrong 🤔 )

Also, if the the !-mention that transfers post ownership to the forum account is something implemented by activityPub specifics and useful, it's more likely that other platforms start to consider to code that implementation too, if they see that it's used and useful. So in any case that would be one of the positive feed back loops I was referring to.

@utopiArte I don't exactly know how the !-mention is handled protocol-wise. Maybe @Michael Vogel can expand on it. On the other hand, you're right that the @-mention works from any Fediverse account as the post is automatically reshared by the group account which is a native ActivityPub feature.

The ! simply is meant to transmit that post only to the group account that then reshares it.

@Michael Vogel @utopiArte Can it be emulated by an exclusive mention on other platforms?