https://piefed.social/u/pieland posted on Feb 24, 2026 00:26
gup.pe reborn
Not really.
Gup.pe groups were genuine ActivityPub Groups, like Lemmy communities, whereas these ‘FediGroup’ things are just Mastodon bots. They’re a ‘Service’, aka the automated version of a ‘Person’, so they’re no use to anyone on platforms (like Lemmy) that can only follow Groups.
The most similar recent thing to gup.pe is https://ovo.st/
Compare:
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse | jq -r .type
=> Group
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://ovo.st/club/askfedi | jq -r .type
=> Group
with
curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' https://fedigroups.social/@audiofiction | jq -r .type
=> Service
Ah. That’s disappointing. It does explain why it was running on a mastodon instance though.