Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jorams » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 12:56 PM UTC

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.

The full versions of these illustrations have high resolutions:

https://framablog.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-06-...

https://framablog.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-08-...

https://framablog.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-10-06-...

(Not sure if these are linked anywhere, but I just chopped the image size out of the URL.)

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

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Post by Hitton » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 1:04 PM UTC

mozilizon.org page says:

>try Mobilizon

>Create a fake account and fake events on demo.mobilizon.org

But for some reason this fake account requires quite real email address. No thanks.

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

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Post by kaushikt » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 1:11 PM UTC

Meetup has done a standup job with events. I would love to see them do more with groups too. It's annoying to join the meetup "group" and then join their adjacent Slack or Telegram group.

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

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Post by Pouhiou » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 1:13 PM UTC

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.

The sources (krita files) and hi res jpeg files will soon be published online here https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/static6/sources&page=other

All those illustrations are CC-By David Revoy : https://www.davidrevoy.com/article800/mobilizon

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

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Post by olah_1 » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 1:19 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #17

Nice. But I'm curious how they deal with the network effect. I.e., how do they motivate event organizers to post their events on this platform too? And how do I convince my friends to RSVP on this platform so I can see where they are going?

If users have to sign up (create an account) in the traditional flow, I think this is dead in the water :/

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

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Post by Spearchucker » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 1:31 PM UTC

jtbayly wrote: post #12

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.

Arguably. Forums have been supplanted by Facebook groups. Mobilizon seeks to do the same to Facebook. I can't create a group so I cannot definitively say anything about it. You may very well be right.

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

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Post by DarkWiiPlayer » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

Reading through the page I just couldn't shake off the feeling that the illustrations remind me a lot of the Pepper and Carrot comic.

I scrolled down to the footer almost expecting to find the name David Revoy there and indeed it was :D

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

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Post by agumonkey » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

What else is there in this field ?

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

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Post by amelius » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 1:42 PM UTC

olah_1 wrote: post #25

amelius wrote: post #17

Nice. But I'm curious how they deal with the network effect. I.e., how do they motivate event organizers to post their events on this platform too? And how do I convince my friends to RSVP on this platform so I can see where they are going?

If users have to sign up (create an account) in the traditional flow, I think this is dead in the water :/

Perhaps some scraper could help with cross-posting of events.

The tool can be named Facebook-dl :)

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

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Post by aaronax » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 1:48 PM UTC

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…

Just yesterday I was thinking about some sort of social network where every piece of content is required to link to at least one Wikidata item, OpenStreetMap node, etc. With the right tooling this would get you the "organic hierarchical taxonomy".

I thought it would be an interesting way to make sure the conversations are actually ABOUT something. And it would hopefully encourage contributions to those sorts of open data projects.