Meanwhile groups are implemented in the pump network, I have an idea that I want to share with you, pump friends, to see if its do-able and convenient.

Let's say we want to create a group for #coffee lovers. So we create a user @coffee in an instance that one of the #coffee lovers controls (that person will be admin of group).

People wanting to join the group, just follow that account, e.g. @coffee@randompumpserver.net

People wanting to post to the group just sends a direct message to @coffee@randompumpserver.net

The group manager can control randompumpserver.net, and sets up a cron job or a script or anything to do this two tasks:

@coffee automatically follows anybody that followed her.
@coffee shares (with followers) all the direct messages that receives.

Would be easy to implement? Am I missing something? Are native groups almost there, and so, better wait and not to mess with workarounds?

/cc'ing @Evan Prodromou for obvious reasons, and @jpope because he's the sheriff of BashScriptVille and the #coffee lover #1 here, I think :)