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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

#61

Is it just me, or has "federated" come to mean just mean multi-tenant SaaS (maybe with some features that cross boundaries) that's also open source?

Does ActivityPub not count as federated for you?

https://docs.joinmobilizon.org/contribute/activity_pub/

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

#63

Is it just me, or has "federated" come to mean just mean multi-tenant SaaS (maybe with some features that cross boundaries) that's also open source?

Just you. Federation still means communication/collaboration between independently run servers.

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

#64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just start a blog?

Because it's unweidly. Too verbose. A post is often no more than a sentence or less with a photo.Each comment on an entry would have to be another blog post with it's own attached/linked media. Also tag clouds lack structure. It's difficult to search across blogs (which would delinieate users). You could shoehorn it in, but the blog solution is nothing close to ideal.

https://write.as/ makes blogs a little easier, and the IndieWeb easier still, but it's not quite good enough yet.

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

#67
post #37

What else is there in this field ?

With field you mean "organising events"? If so, Meetup.com, Eventbrite and Facebook are probably the most famous.

actually I wasn't sure of the whole surface of mobilizon .. I thought it did more, thanks

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

#68

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…

Well, this could be because you are running out of memory, which results in the yarn build process getting killed. The simplest solution is to enable "swap" in your instance by using the following commands:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024
  sudo chown root:root /swapfile 
  chmod 600 /swapfile
  mkswap /swapfile
  swapon /swapfile
  add /etc/fstab
  /swapfile               swap                    swap    
  defaults        0 0 

  #echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
  sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10
  add to /etc/sysctl.conf 
  vm.swappiness=10
All I am doing is creating a swap file of 1GB and enabling it with a not so aggressive swappinness on the kernel.

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

#69
Looks like they self-host their source code too: https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon/ It appears to be developed in some language called "Euphoria"?? That's such a strange choice and is going to seriously limit contributions from other developers.

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

#70

Looks like they self-host their source code too: https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon/ It appears to be developed in some language called "Euphoria"?? That's such a strange choice and is going to seriously limit contributions from other developers.

Looks like Elixir to me. Not hugely mainstream but I think it's shed its niche status. Which folders have Euphoria in them?
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