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Hello all Chirp group admins!
Unfortuntely Chirp groups host Chirp.social is officially shutting down. If you're running a Chirp group, now is the moment to move your members to another group platform on the Fediverse.
The maintainer of Chirp recommends moving to Guppe, which is the most popular Fediverse group host. Another option is Friendica which lets you have group-specific moderators.
More info about using Fediverse groups in a guide at:
@FediTips
Now that you bring it up, I've had friendica in the back of my mind for a bit now but could never really explore it because I didn't find how to without creating an account.
Are there ways you know of to explore friendica without an account or to use any of my existing fediverse accounts to browse an instance?
The only way I know is to sign up on an instance and try it out. Sorry 
But you only need the moderators to be on Friendica. The members of the group can be on Mastodon etc, they don't need to be on Friendica.
@FediTips
That honestly kind of sucks for me then, I've been able to see a lot of the different platforms and browse things anonymously, but friendica wants to mimic Facebook a little too close there and I don't feel like making an account just to see if it's something that might interest me.
I guess the closest to the group thing might then be lemmy/kbin communities which show up as groups in mastodon.
The "group" label on Mastodon is something different. It doesn't work the same way as Chirp or Guppe or Friendica, and it shows up for many different kinds of situations (such as PeerTube channels though not PeerTube accounts).
We really need some new words for groups to distinguish between these different types 