Fediverse

In my country (non-english speaking), facebook is definitely the default for group organization and it really bugs me. I don't want to use facebook, so I end up not organizing with anyone in the surroundings. Then someone set up a Telegram group and that was sort of an improvement, but impractical, and still nobody posts events.

First time I read about Mobilizon, it fits the bill of every local community internet thing facebook is currently having its dirty corporate fingers on. But what kind of server would I need to set it up? Any old laptop run from home good enough?

That would be awesome.

It already bugs me a little that I had to create a separate identity to use Lemmy. Why can't we have Mastodon (or any other server application) actually embrace ActivityPub and start supporting different types of activities? This would mean that we wouldn't need different servers being deployed, and instead simply use a proper client that can adapt its interface to the activity stream that we want to interact with.

It does seem pretty interesting, I'll have to do some more research but it may be something I'll spin up.

I won't promise anything though, the last time I tried to spin something up it was 2 days before my server was back online.

I think Mobilizon is very country and local specific. What I mean is, most groups I’m a member of on Facebook, is local community groups or very niche groups for people from my country.

So it makes sense that there’s not an international Mobilizon instance.

if i could i would

It’s the people who also made PeerTube, that’s behind this. It can only be good.