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Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
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Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#392Check out options on https://softaculous.com/apps/socialnetworking. I have used Elgg, and HumHub seems popular.
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That's not actually how it works. Yes, it is. And your next sentence demonstrates how you’re still missing the point. > People try time and again, sometimes over decades or centuries, before achieving change - or achieving anything at all. Do you think OP has decades or centuries to move their community out of Facebook? That is patently absurd. Again, I’m offering specific advice. Specific , as in to this situation…
Here's a specific tip: If you run out of arguments yourself, you can always insult the other person and their arguments.
That doesn’t sound healthy, I have no intention of following that advice. But you do you.
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#394One of the biggest problems in local communities is how social media (usually in Nextdoor or Facebook groups) acts like acid for our social bonds. Your neighbors are looking for pancake breakfasts and kids shoveling driveways. What they get instead is anger over Orange Dictator or The Libs.
This divisiveness hurts across the world, but is painful when it goes local. These are people you see at the grocery store or teachers who can retaliate against your kids.
We just launched a hateless social media platform. People can speak freely on any topic, including politics. But a clever combination of aliases, real names, and respect functionality kills off the nastiness.
If any of this rings true to you, I'd love to help.
Mike Schoeffler https://hiweave.com/
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#395One of the biggest problems in local communities is how social media (usually in Nextdoor or Facebook groups) acts like acid for our social bonds. Your neighbors are looking for pancake breakfasts and kids shoveling driveways. What they get instead is anger over Orange Dictator or The Libs. This divisiveness hurts across the world, but is painful when it goes local. These are people you see at the grocery store or te…
I can't say I've looked too far, but after making an account, two of the first three things I see are:
> Do people post online because they care about the cause, or just want to look woke? Respond -Hot topic
and
> The guy might be on the spectrum, but he has a good sense of humor. [Link to Elon Musk post about Nazi salute]
I suppose it's possible I just got unlucky, but this doesn't seem to be avoiding the standard pitfalls of social media.
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#396One of the biggest problems in local communities is how social media (usually in Nextdoor or Facebook groups) acts like acid for our social bonds. Your neighbors are looking for pancake breakfasts and kids shoveling driveways. What they get instead is anger over Orange Dictator or The Libs. This divisiveness hurts across the world, but is painful when it goes local. These are people you see at the grocery store or te…
I can't say I've looked too far, but after making an account, two of the first three things I see are: > Do people post online because they care about the cause, or just want to look woke? Respond -Hot topic and > The guy might be on the spectrum, but he has a good sense of humor. [Link to Elon Musk post about Nazi salute] I suppose it's possible I just got unlucky, but this doesn't seem to be avoiding the standard p…
Useful feedback - thanks. The content you're seeing may be misleading for what the platform really does. Let me explain.
The "hot topic" thing is just chatgpt creating conversation starters. Sometimes, its' leaning left, sometimes right, sometimes it's not political. We're tuning it up (mainly to just be more engaging).
The post you saw about Elon Musk ... Everyone is talking about whatever they feel like talking about. If Musk isn't your cup of tea, mute this anonymous person and you don't see each other for a week. It's only a week because maybe one of you was having a bad day. But with repeated muting, they're completely gone. Also nudges the system to group you with people you're going to like better. After enough respects and mutes, you should see the people you enjoy.
The bigger point is what happens once you bring your friends. You guys can talk about anything without getting angry at each other. If they irritate, mute 'em. If you enjoy the conversation, respect them. Enough mutual respect and you can see real names.
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's reach and UX. Normies can use it. People who were in early days of Internet remember who bad email mailing lists were for organising anything. Mailing list, Usenet, IRC, are all now dead because no one could invest to UX in these early open protocols. In theory you can reach all users using a mailing list but oh boy, good luck with that one, unless all of your peers are kernel developers.
> People who were in early days of Internet remember who bad email mailing lists were for organising anything. Most of us miss the simplicity of mailing lists. I lived in a new (at the time) neighbourhood back in 2008, and we had a neighbourhood mailing list which was very convenient. Nobody had issues with using it, because there’s very little to learn if you know how ti read and reply emails. Sure, we had to explai…
I miss the oldschool forums.
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#398For self-hosted and federated community building, might I suggest NodeBB? v4 now fully federates, has always been self-hostable, and is a great piece of software for migrating from Facebook. Consider the "feed" plugin for a less jarring experience. Push notifications via the "web-push" plugin.
With "fully federates", do you mean that it can share forum categories and/or posts with other NodeBB servers?
Yes! You can share topics and posts with other NodeBB forums and software implementing ActivityPub (Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.)
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#399> I live in a more rural community (moved from a big city). We have 5-6 small (~50k people) towns, all well connected. Everything happens on Facebook. I would like to move to a different platforms. Plus points for self-hosted, federated. Do YOU want to move off of Facebook for some reason, or do people want to move off of Facebook for some reason. MOST people in the US, especially in a rural are are not going to quit…
Facebook has gone to shit long before any controversy around the CEO's political posturing. The content/spam+slop ratio is pretty dismal at this point. I am sure a lot of people are ready to jump ship, given a viable alternative for even some subset of the features that they like.
For me personally, the only features that remain at all interesting on Facebook are Marketplace, Groups and maybe Events. Does anyone still use Craigslist? It was always terrible so I don't know if there is an alternative for Marketplace but Groups and Events aren't even done that well on Facebook so that seems like a reasonable place to start as far as an MVP.
Re: Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
#400I've been on the verge of starting a local community. I'll do it one day soon.
When I do, I would start with a website/blog, probably using Ghost. Good community starts with good communication. Comments are just fine for initial community building. Once you have some traction, consider a forum.
Also, look into Front Porch Forum, they've been doing it their own way for years, it can work.