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Yeah, it's pretty close, but with the caveat that they live alongside the global space so I have doubts about their effectiveness. It does make sense from their standpoint: my proposal would result in a fundamentally different experience, whereas Mastodon's group feature is an extension.
You can actually see how this works out by looking at Tumblr. From what I know about it, Tumblr is pretty similar to microblogging in that everything takes place in a global space and so all of the same dynamics are true for it as well.
It got communities as a first-class feature a while ago, and just like Mastodon's feature they exist alongside the existing system. And to me, it looks like most activity still takes place in the latter. Probably because that's what people are used to, maybe because communities raise the barrier ever so slightly so they feel annoying or pointless to use. Those are my guesses at least.
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