I was shocked to see that there are no English-language Mobilizon servers. It seems like it may be an ideal secondary service for certain existing fediverse communities and was wondering if anybody here had considered it.
For those unaware, Mobilizon looks to fill the role of something like Facebook groups for the fediverse. I believe it is compatible with both Mastodon and Lemmy through the groups actor in the ActivityPub spec but provides additional functionality dealing with scheduled events and shared resources.
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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?
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.
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.
In theory you should be able to run this using existing fediverse accounts similar to how the new db0 wiki lets you log in with your lemmy credentials. Obviously not quite what you’re asking for but it is a step in that direction.
Long term I’m really looking to more explicitly modular services like Bonfire.
I havent heard of this before and its got a really well done website, seems great.
That would be awesome.
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.
