Am I understanding right there will be no remote user following, only remote community following?

  • mariusor
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    5 years ago

    Not a dev, but since there is no local user following currently, what makes you think there would be remote?

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      5 years ago

      Let me explain. I’ve been looking for a software to maintain a community (mostly my local one but it’s still a bit distributed). One key thing for me, apart from discussions (which is the core feature I need), is to be able to organise events. And then I encountered this https://github.com/lowercasename/gathio/wiki/Fediverse-Instructions. You can see, technically, subscribing to an event is subscribing to a remote user, and RSVPing to an event is voting in a poll. So here comes my question. Though anyway I’m looking for any events provider, not specifically the Gath.io. FYI /u/dessalines

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        5 years ago

        I think there are already some event focused ActivityPub services which have a bit better abstractions than Event = Person and RSVPing = Voting. Mobilizon is one such service, from the french company Framasoft, but I’m not a fan of patreon/kickstarter for open source software. :)

        The good thing of the fediverse is that you can (theoretically) use a user account on one service to interact with others.

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            5 years ago

            Yeah, seem that they are fine sacrificing spec compliance for interoperability with obviously broken implementations (namely Mastodon). It drives me a bit bonkers to see devs doing this.

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              5 years ago

              Do you know if Mobilizon is planning to use a proper federation approach?

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                5 years ago

                Nope, I am not affiliated with them in any way.