It's great to see alternatives popping up everywhere, keep it coming
Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
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Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
#72looks pretty dope!
Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
#73Looks 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?
They based their code in part on Pleroma per something else I read, which is written in Elixir.
Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
#74Looks 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?
Yeah, their development guide lists Elixir (and Erlang), PostgreSQL and NodeJS as dependencies. https://docs.joinmobilizon.org/contribute/development/#witho...
Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
#75I 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…
> People dislike Facebook and other centralized platforms not because they're centralized per-se, but because the user experience is terrible
I'm not sure I agree here. My anecdote is that the experience of Facebook events is superb. People are prompted to fill in pretty good basic information, can discuss arrangements on the "wall", and I'm reminded about my attendance before the event multiple times. The invites also come into a place where I already spend a fair bit of time. I don't know anyone who makes events outside of Facebook within my circle of friends.
> This reads like a tech demo where the tech and decentralization is the selling point, but the truth is, the masses don't know/care about that and rightfully so. The same applies to Mastodon and similar projects.
I agree with this. Until the mainstream narrative realises that giving away all of our personal info is a faux pas, engaging with platforms like this is limited to activists and those who have an incentive for privacy.
Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
#76What else is there in this field ?
If you mean the field of people organising events on open source decentralised software, I think there is:
* https://framagit.org/les/gancio
* https://github.com/lowercasename/gathio
* https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether
* https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown Mastodon fork with basic event stuff
(This is not to take away from Mobilizon - congrats to them!)
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 th…
Each instance is free to federate or not with every other instance. You have every right to post what you want, but there's no requirement for other people to listen.
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#78I'm very pleased to see this launch, but have one feature request - and I'm posting it here because it's a request I would make to anyone doing event software.
Please have open feeds in iCal format for your site, including one that lets people get all public data.
This will make the data on your website so much more reusable and useful.
And definetly iCal - it's so popular, and most personal calendars can even import it directly.
Yes, it's odd text format is a pain, but there are libraries in almost every language you can use.
Mobilizon has iCal export for a single event, but not for all public events on the site. (I did have a Mastodon chat with them about this but can't find their replies now)
But definitely congrats to Framasoft for this :-)
Re: Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups
#79Looks 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.
What is this “Euphoria” you are talking about?
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#80Some of these illustrations are really great! I'd probably use them as desktop wallpapers if I could get higher resolution versions.
They also seem to be very similar to Mastodon. They may be inspired from that.
Mobilizon appears to be a Fediverse server just like Mastodon, Pleroma, and others.