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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 malandrew »

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…

Seeing that a significant portion of activists are "activists" for purely reasons feeding their own ego and self worth, I see this as a net win for weeding such people out. That said, if this does catch on, you can probably expect such people to start signing their content even if the system specifically doesn't support it.

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

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Post by monksy »

suyash wrote: post #48
solarkraft wrote: post #5

That looks amazing! From its look it seems a lot like it'd be a replacement for Meetup/Eventbrite, which is something I've been waiting for for a while. Framasoft is great!

yes more of a meetup.com alternative than anything. However the hard part is how do I migrate my large meetup community to a new platform.

Lots of advanced warning, lots of emails, lots of inperson reminders, etc.

For me, I ended up sending multiple emails and killing the group. (I'm not paying meetup "half price" for an essentially useless service. (Ok, the only thing it holds is membership data.. but they expect you to pay for zoom to hold your meetups [which those don't work])

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

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Post by ivarv »

meetups323 wrote: post #34

I'm about 2 hours into setting up an Mobilizon instance for outdoor socially distant activities, but running into problems [1] and at the end of the day federation isn't important to me and I'd prefer the learning opportunity and flexibility of building my own [2]. Curious if any HNers in the PNW region might use such a service to pod up for outdoor socially distant activities (hiking, wilderness cleanup, kayaking, p…

Where in the PNW are you located? Given the border closure it's no longer feasible to organize international meetups.

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

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

Pouhiou wrote: post #24
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

Whoa, lots of excellent artwork! Thank you!

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

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Post by Jtsummers »

throwawaysea wrote: post #45

What is Mobilizon's policy on deplatforming, censorship, etc. How will they protect against owner/employee bias? I ask this because Mastodon's founders also pitched a federated tool to the world but then turned out to be very much the same authoritarian pro-censorship actor as the centralized platform we'd all like to get away from.

How is Mastodon censored? Specific instances or is the general community actively censoring content across instances?

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

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Post by throwawaysea »

Jtsummers wrote: post #56
throwawaysea wrote: post #45

What is Mobilizon's policy on deplatforming, censorship, etc. How will they protect against owner/employee bias? I ask this because Mastodon's founders also pitched a federated tool to the world but then turned out to be very much the same authoritarian pro-censorship actor as the centralized platform we'd all like to get away from.

How is Mastodon censored? Specific instances or is the general community actively censoring content across instances?

My understanding is that the project founder and/or leads are pursuing a campaign to pressure all instances to not peer with instances on their political blacklist, and adding those who refuse to their peering demands to the blacklist. In effect the “fediverse” that is claimed as a benefit is in name only. I’m not sure what benefit the project offers anymore over centralized platforms since it is becoming the same thing as a result.

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

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Post by minerjoe »

Hitton wrote: post #22

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.

Their little tour recommends using a throwaway email.

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

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Post by riffic »

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?

> how do they motivate event organizers to post their events on this platform too

In theory, the event organizers would have their own instance and they would post the events directly onto that. This would make sense for organizations with an existing technology infrastructure.

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