Hospitality exchange community considers moving to the fediverse ;)
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I outlined the reasons in my into post Hello from hospitality exchange community devs! The idea is drafted here: https://github.com/mariha/federated-trustroots/discussions/3 I’d like to discuss the idea and possibly get some help in the direction where to go next. In particular, I am not sure if ActivityPub is what we should use to implement our federation. We are not social media platforms. (Photo by Tim Douglas from Pexels)

Hospitality exchange community considers moving to the fediverse

At SocialHub and for the Fediverse there’s a very interesting development. A diverse group of technologists involved in community-based Hospitality exchange are considering to make their online platforms federated, or create federated alternatives to them. One reason to do so is they are fleeing commercialisation of platforms that were always meant to be open and welcoming to anyone (as happened before with CouchSurfing for instance).

Among interested people are folks that contributed to the following platforms:

It may be that federation support is added to the existing codebase, or that apps are first forked before doing so, or even rebuilt from the ground up.

Your Brainstorming Challenge

Here’s your brainstorming challenge: Inspire each other on the possibilities!

  • How may these platforms manifest themselves on the Fediverse?
  • What does federation add that allows stronger community and flourishing exchanges?
  • What new and exciting functionality can be offered?

Encourage you to think beyond just microblogging / Mastodon-like functionality. Inspire these fine people that are considering fedi as their new home, and help them in any way you can!

Greatly encourage anyone to join SocialHub community and deepen the discussion there too.

  • Gwynne@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    What does federation add that allows stronger community and flourishing exchanges?

    More creation on the fediverse (Interest-based Instances) - the ones that makes us a living and breathing community is the ones being productive in it. meaning that using fediverse is for not wasting your time, rather to be part of something meaningful.

    on fediverse is you might as well to utilize it differently from normal social media. finding things to be part of. some people know how to do it on normal social media but it doesn’t happen often and It’s kind of a destructive environment to them. I don’t think playing with fire is fun, or like fun… but with a restraining order. these corporation are in short; ‘if we don’t like you, you can’t speak. and also we might just inconspicuously control your behavior, but you won’t know that. so It’s gonna be fine… for us.’ the usage for twitter and reddit is to post things blindly or not use it at all. or for spreading a good message. only. don’t spend your time there, don’t risk your well-being.

    • smallcircles@lemmy.mlOPM
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      4 years ago

      Thanks, yes. To be part of something meaningful. That is the key! We should not let ourselves to be led to what traditional social media offers, as it will limit our imagination. I tend to use the term ‘social networking’ instead of ‘social media’. The former encompasses the rich and intricate social fabric that exists in the real world, and for which we want tech to be supportive to it in an online context.