What do you think? Is this a bad time of the year to evaluate Mobilizon? The plan was to end testing at the and of this month and so far the instance didn't see much usage. I wonder if i should extend that timeframe so people can show me that there is an actual interest for it :)
@milan I was just wondering if this tool (#mobilizon) might be helpful to coordinate and announce activities against #fascism or #climatechange.
After the #correctiv report there seems to be a beginning of mobilization against #fascism in Germany. But at the moment these are small and local. They are lacking a coordinating element and a platform for announcements.
But I am not sure if it suitable for this. Might also be better on a different / dedicated instance?
Haven't done any testing yet ...
sooo... i guess that mobilizon instance either did not spark that much interest or it is a bad time of the year to evaluate that. testing phase of whether people actually use it and of its reliability is scheduled until end of january.
if you ran into bugs, please retry as it was recently updated.
We've been discussing these issues, amongst others lately in the Fediverse-City room on Matrix, what with the relative demise of Meetup.com following its acquisition by WeWork, and the rise of *events over at Faceplant further obviating them having much to do with a plethora of event management projects exploding onto the scene for the past couple of years.
It's been a while since I've visited #Faceplant, so long in fact, I only recently became aware a couple of years ago that they had a marketplace that has largely supplanted craigslist, and finding out just today that they in fact have some sort of events system - that speaks volumes, I think, toward my dedication to dogfooding my #FOSS and simply ignoring, for the most part, there are still some privacy disrespecting operators in the deprecated monolithic silo space of social networking.
#Mobilizon, #Hubzilla, #Rebased, and #Friendica have their own take on how these event management systems should #Federate through the rest of the #Fediverse, while others mentioned in the article below, including #WordPress try to fit into that niche in a cooperative, interoperable way... and it's paying off. Bigtime.
It's a good read, events are powerful for hobbyists, technologists, sports enthusiasts, and just about any kind of IRL or remote attendance awareness and organizing; so it only stands to reason that #DeSoc, and social networking in general include the capabilities to seamlessly propagate events as globally possible.
At the very least, events are heralded as one of the best ways to get free pizza 🍕 and beer 🍺 with others that have common interests. After a veritable shitload of funding from many sources, including NGI0 and even larger corporate sponsors, we're approaching a place where anyone with a Fediverse account, even on the smolweb or most obscure platforms like Threads, will be privy to things like announcements, RSVP, alerts, Etc., of upcoming events, regardless of whether your Fediverse platform of choice directly supports event management.
And it is perhaps a little ironic, that #Threads users themselves will likely have at their disposal, an event notification and management capability in direct conflict with the one that Meta wants them to use - I dunno how that's going to work out, but I think it's pretty kewl that nobody else does either at this time.
#tallship#Fediverse_City#NGI0 h/t to @silverpill for the heads up on the following article, he just always seems to know where that rabbit is hiding in the tophat and pulls it right out when it's most needed, lolz.
When writing the initial version of our project plan as signed and agreed with by NlNet we didn’t know yet about the dynamics of the community, specifically about how the cooperation between the maintainers of the #WordPress#ActivityPub plugin and #Mobilizon would be like. The level of collaboration with other #Fediverse developers would determine whether our project goals could only be achieved through a series of workarounds, or whether we could work together to strengthen interoperability and compatibility in the Fediverse.
Mobilizon was, until our project, the only Fediverse application with true event federation. #Gancio limits its ActivityPub capabilities to sending notes, but is working on a true federation of events, and other services like #Friendica have a very different approach to events: their implementation focuses on sending invitations rather than publishing events. As is usual with any software, you will find a lot of small bugs if you have not done any tests beforehand. In the case of Mobilizon, this was not possible since there were no alternative platforms to do the tests with, so the only option was to test the Federation with other Mobilizon servers. We seem to be the first and we are fascinated and incredibly grateful for the willingness and prioritization that such issues have among the other developers (thanks to tcit and les). The issues may seem small, but they have a big impact: #304#33#321#1509#1507#1392#1385#1388#1387#1378#1376.
The other deciding factor for us was that we didn’t know how close the interaction with the upstream WordPress AktivityPub project would be. The exchange of ideas and the desire for a joint solution is strong. We would like to thank @pfefferle again for the regular exchange, his ideas and inspiration, without his commitment to the community our project would be less sustainable.
Tasks done (almost)
We published a repository that aims to make it easy for other developers, including ourselves to start developing and debugging WordPress along with Mobilizon.
We have created a pull request to add management of various ActivityPub transformers to the admin interface. The current implementation basically works, but we have a lot to polish and improve on our roadmap.
Using that patched ActivityPub plugin we explored writing transformers for two popular event plugins, this gave us a lot insight on what is important. These transformers already have fundamental compatibility with Moblizon.
Updating our About us page showing some information who we are.
Implement the followers list of the application actor in the admin UI along with the ability to reject, approve, and remove followers. We are very inspired by how #PeerTube has solved this in the admin UI. This of course includes a an option as:manuallyApprovesFollowers that can be set for an ActivityPub actor within WordPress.
Write an initial draft of the user documentation informing about custom ActivityPub transformers and instance-to-instance federation with Mobilizon. The target audience will be non-tech people. Parts of this will also be used as a non-tech description of our project.
Improve the admin UI and propose a solution to handle the settings for each transformer, if there are any.
Write more transformers for other popular event plugins to discover common pitfalls.
If you have any questions, ideas, or would like to help us, for example by testing our progress yourself if your operate a WordPress site with events, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We don’t care if you have technical experience or what your background is: any kind of involvement is valuable to us.
It seems like 16GB of RAM is not enough when developing for or with #Mobilizon. When running mix commands it uses more than 13 GB of memory.
And I was wondering about those mysterious crashes! I shouldn't have skipped setting up SWAP when I set up my notebook after it came back from service.
Faites un don à Mozilla. Reprenez le contrôle d’Internet. https://foundation.mozilla.org/ -> J'avais lu "Fondation Mobilizon" et j'étais entrain de boguer…
The #tchncs :tchncs: #Mobilizon instance has been updated to v4.0.0+4.0.1+4.0.2 (sorry, i am now subscribed to the releasefeed and wont miss releases again).
Für den Kölner Fahrradkalender habe ich die folgende kostenlose Wordpress-Seite zum testen erstellt 👇 https://koelnerfahrradkalender.wordpress.com/
Eigentlich war mein Plan, dass die Termine mittels PlugIn von #Mobilizon 👇 https://events.fedibikes.social/@koeln/events
auf die Wordpress-Seite übertragen werden.
Das geht aber wohl nur mit einem Tarifupgrade, was mich im Jahr 300 Euro kosten würde.
Kennt jemand eine Umgehungslösung oder eine kostengünstigere Alternative?
En cette fin d'année morose, peut-être serait-il opportun d'organiser sur le #fediverse une entraide bienveillante, sous la forme d'un vaste #gafout, pour soutenir celles & ceux qui seraient résolus à reprendre le pouvoir sur leurs existences numériques en 2024 !
still thinking about the degree to which old habits of online protest carried over from the corporate sites cease to function as they did when transplanted here, in an environment designed to limit visibility and impose friction.
The forms of movement building and viral protest amplification in the Fediverse quite likely are and will be different to those of surveillance-capitalism social media. For protest/event organisation, the Fediverse has #Mobilizon [1]. Current monthly usage is about 100 instances, 30k users, 300k posts [2].
#Lemmy and #Kbin forums could also play another complementary role.