Unless it was recently added, groups are not a thing on Mastodon itself. I do know in the Mastodon side of things a lot of people use Guppe: a.gup.pe/ for groups, which work in the same fashion as Friendica groups, just with no moderator/admin.

In the case of the groups, all 3 have it in their description that they’re groups.

Because Mastodon has no support for groups there’s no indicator anywhere other than the description that an account is a group account.

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I pay attention to such thinks, but even with hindsight, I do not see such a group reference.

That’s because Mastodon doesn’t tell you that

• it’s a group (because Mastodon doesn’t understand the concept of groups)
• it’s on Friendica (because Mastodon does its best to shield the existence of non-Mastodon Fediverse projects from its users)

On #Mastodon, groups are also possible, but I forgot how to use them, as I used them so little.

Not yet. They’re working on it. And everything else that has working groups/forums now is afraid that Mastodon will re-invent the wheel in a way that’s the most incompatible possible to what already exists on more than half a dozen Fediverse projects.

What you mean is probably Guppe, but that isn’t built into Mastodon and a far cry from what’s possible on Friendica.

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