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Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

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Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

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Post by HourglassFR »

Nextgrid wrote: post #6

I feel like this misses the point. People dislike Facebook and other centralized platforms not because they're centralized per-se, but because the user experience is terrible (due to mismatched incentives - these platforms make money off ads, so their only objective is to make you engage with the ads as much as possible). The solution is a platform that doesn't have these mismatched incentives (either paid for, ran b…

I don't think the point is to replace Facebook&Co though. It is specifically a tool developped for political activists. Everybody can use it of course, it is free software. Given that context the decentralization feature is most definitively a crucial feature.

https://joinmobilizon.org/en/faq/#facebook

And even more broadly, the whole point of Framasoft is to offer tools to use the internet in a decentralized way. This is not limited to this particular tool, they have many other project. All offering an inferior user experience than the existing solutions by the usual FAANG giants of course but again the point is decentralization and freedom.

Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

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Post by jtbayly »

FourthProtocol wrote: post #10

Wow that's pretty ambitious, and pretty relevant for me right now. I build models, and so used to frequent forums to post to build threads detailing what I'd done with photos, sometimes a Word doc, video, and always some plain text. Problem with the forums is that they're dated. It's easy enough to find old content because search is usually pretty ok. Who owns content is still not a solved thing though. A forum in Ge…

This use case seems orthogonal at best to the idea of Mobilizon.

Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

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Post by williamtwild »

FourthProtocol wrote: post #10

Wow that's pretty ambitious, and pretty relevant for me right now. I build models, and so used to frequent forums to post to build threads detailing what I'd done with photos, sometimes a Word doc, video, and always some plain text. Problem with the forums is that they're dated. It's easy enough to find old content because search is usually pretty ok. Who owns content is still not a solved thing though. A forum in Ge…

Why not just start a blog?

Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

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Post by amelius »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #13

Some of these illustrations are really great! I'd probably use them as desktop wallpapers if I could get higher resolution versions.

You can use Waifu2x to upscale artwork:

Online demo: http://waifu2x.udp.jp/

Repo: https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/bkw543/tutorial_how...

Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

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Post by fwsgonzo »

linspace wrote: post #9

This got me surprised: "Mobilizon is designed so that you can follow the news of a group, but not of an individual : it is impossible to follow a single profile. In Mobilizon, profiles have no « wall », « thread » or « story » : only groups can publish posts. The goal is to get rid of the self-promotional reflexes where we stage our lives to be the person at the center of our followers. With Mobilizon, it is not the…

Considering how vapid the current lineup of social networking is, I'm willing to see how it turns out.

There are some other great features too, but I didn't see anything about video-conferencing, which would be a killer feature.

Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups

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Post by candu »

HourglassFR wrote: post #11
Nextgrid wrote: post #6

I feel like this misses the point. People dislike Facebook and other centralized platforms not because they're centralized per-se, but because the user experience is terrible (due to mismatched incentives - these platforms make money off ads, so their only objective is to make you engage with the ads as much as possible). The solution is a platform that doesn't have these mismatched incentives (either paid for, ran b…

I don't think the point is to replace Facebook&Co though. It is specifically a tool developped for political activists. Everybody can use it of course, it is free software. Given that context the decentralization feature is most definitively a crucial feature. https://joinmobilizon.org/en/faq/#facebook And even more broadly, the whole point of Framasoft is to offer tools to use the internet in a decentralized way. Th…

Exactly this. From one viewpoint, https://pad.riseup.net/ is just a worse version of Google Docs, and most people will never use it. From another, it's a vital service for preserving the anonymity and security of activists, and comparisons to Google Docs are moot.

In other words, these tools quite effectively solve the pain of a small but clearly-defined group of people - turns out this approach is useful beyond the startup world!

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