Not officially - but they’ll be adding groups in one of their future updates (not 4.2, unfortunately). That will work exactly as you’d expect.
However in the meantime, people use Guppe Groups (https://a.gup.pe/), which are a type of “user” which boosts all posts sent to it to other people following it. For example, I could follow @bikes@a.gup.pe and anytime anyone mentions @bikes@a.gup.pe, the post will be boosted to all other users following @bikes@a.gup.pe.
The above is how Lemmy communities work when followed from Mastodon, as well.
I’ve used this and it worked pretty well. The issue I had was when people start chatting and leave the group pinger in the convo. But that was more of an etiquette issue than a technical issue.
Not officially - but they’ll be adding groups in one of their future updates (not 4.2, unfortunately). That will work exactly as you’d expect.
However in the meantime, people use Guppe Groups (https://a.gup.pe/), which are a type of “user” which boosts all posts sent to it to other people following it. For example, I could follow
@bikes@a.gup.peand anytime anyone mentions@bikes@a.gup.pe, the post will be boosted to all other users following@bikes@a.gup.pe.The above is how Lemmy communities work when followed from Mastodon, as well.
I’ve used this and it worked pretty well. The issue I had was when people start chatting and leave the group pinger in the convo. But that was more of an etiquette issue than a technical issue.