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 (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.
@jay91 Group support appears to be in the works. In the mean-time, people on Mastodon can still follow group accounts and those group accounts will boost posts into their followers' feeds. For example, that's how I saw this post to reply to.
@jay91 It doesn’t but I believe it’s planned for the future. For a classical forum-type groups implementation, Friendica is your best option, for Reddit style, Lemmy and Kbin.
Lemmy is good, but i want to start a community in Arabic, RTL, and lemmy does not support RTL for now. this is why i’m looking for alternatives. i don’t know if Kbin supports RTL.
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