I am looking for people who are interested in Zot-based platforms: Hubzilla, Zap and Osada as a base to build “village intranet” instances for either intentional or local communities. Anyone out there?
I self-host a Hubzilla instance since some years. Has been fine for the most part.
What is your opinion abut usability in the context I gave? From some other source I got this:
Zap and Osada do one thing (social networking) and do it well. Use Osada if you want a really good ActivityPub server, and use Zap if you want or need nomadic identity and much stronger privacy than the fediverse can offer. Use Hubzilla if you actually know what a ‘platform’ is and want to build something great (decentralised communities and cities with shoppes and businesses that all respect your freedom) rather than than just waste your life in idle chit-chat.
What says you?
The destinction between Osada and Zap has become really blurred recently, and there is also Misty2020 now. Really not sure what Mike the main developer of those is thinking.
As for Hubzilla, well yes it could be used for such, but IMHO it is more suited as an all in one personal or family cloud. It really has all the features most people typically use and you can interact with external services via ActivityPub.
Hi @petros@lemmy.ml I am on the same use case, but not necessarily the same technology you are looking for here.
Shall we compare notes? I believe the sociopolitical aspect is primary, as long as there is interoperability on technical level. My interest in ZOT family comes from the fact that they are largely ignored in Fediverse discourse and I would like to know why.
