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Good things are happening in the fediverses! What's on your list?

Good things are happening in the fediverses! What's on your list?

I'm working on a post for @thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange highlighting positive things happening in the fediverses. Of course there's also a lot of stuf...
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Jupiter Rowland
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A lot is going on in and around Hubzilla recently. Version 9.4 has only been released a couple of weeks ago, and it already got four bugfix releases. We might actually be approaching Hubzilla 10 in the not-so-distant future which will adopt a few features from (streams).

Scott M. Stolz is back at developing his new third-party themes which we expect to improve Hubzilla's UX. On top of that, he plans to launch a bunch of new public hubs, also so aspiring users in North America won't have to resort to overseas hubs.

The re-writing of Hubzilla's entire help in German and English is on-going.

Most recent surprise: Someone has managed to integrate the Bandcamp alternative Faircamp into a Hubzilla channel.

If only (streams) had more people taking care of it...


Which Social Network Should I Launch First?

I have recently registered several domains that I will use for public hubs (public instances). People will be able to sign up and create fediverse accounts such as scott@loves.tech and scott@mostly.social. Which should I launch first?
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Neuhub

2024-09-30 22:40:51


Back to the Drawing Board


I have some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that I am changing my approach to creating new themes for Hubzilla. The bad news is that I am changing my approach to creating new themes for Hubzilla.

One thing that I have been dealing with is that Hubzilla's default theme, Redbasic is not compatible with other Bootstrap themes. Redbasic uses Bootstrap in many places, but it still has a lot of custom code and CSS. And sometimes this custom CSS conflicts with Bootstrap. This becomes a nightmare when trying to change Redbasic's appearance and functionality or trying to use a third-party Bootstrap HTML5 theme or UI Kit as a base for a new Hubzilla theme.

And, even when I figure out a way to make Redbasic and Bootstrap work together, when Hubzilla gets updated, new potential conflicts are introduced. As a result, a lot of the themes that worked months ago don't display properly anymore.

So, I am changing my approach.

1. I will create a Redbasic Plus theme that is basically Redbasic plus some additional navigation. I am not going to try to change how it looks significantly. I am just going to make it easier to navigate and customize.

2. I will create a series of Bootstrap themes that will not depend on the default Redbasic code. I will use vanilla Bootstrap 5 for most of the components so that components can be reused between Bootstrap 5 themes.

The upside of making Redbasic Plus first is that I will have a new working theme faster. The downside is that it won't be the radical transformation I was going for. It also means Neuhub Tab and Neuhub Red Dash will have to wait and will need a significant rewrites. The even bigger downside is that I have to go through every template in Hubzilla and create a Bootstrap 5 version of it. This will, obviously, take some time. The biggest upside is that once I have a set of vanilla Bootstrap 5 components, they can be used in multiple themes with little or no changes.

I have already spent time on the new Redbasic Plus theme and it is coming along nicely. I'll share some screenshots when I get closer to releasing.

I just wanted to give you a heads up. Thank you for your patience.


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The Nexus of Privacy
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Thanks, I'll include something about Hubzilla's progress ... the proof of concept Faircamp integration is interesting, do you know if anybody's following up on it?
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Jupiter Rowland
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Not more than mentioned in that thread.

But I guess the cat's out the bag, it's known that this is doable, so maybe this won't stay the only time.

That, and/or people might bolt other stuff to Hubzilla.

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Jupiter Rowland
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And what do you know, HUGO was bolted to Hubzilla.

HUGO on HUBZILLA

Here is an other proof of concept site my allmendenetz.de to demonstrate how webpages generated by HUGO can be hosted easy side by side within a Hubzilla channel in oder to connect the static side with the decentralized #Fediverse.
im.allmendenetz.de
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confuser
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This cool new thing that was just created recently called smoke signal that is basically a fediverse alternative to website like meetup.com

Once I saw this I had realized what was missing from the fediverse experience and that this was it, local interaction!

Check out smoke signal!

Smoke Signal

Smoke Signal is an event and RSVP management system.
Smoke Signal
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Blaze (he/him)
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Interesting, there is a similar project called Mobilizon: joinmobilizon.org/en/

#JoinMobilizon - Let’s take back control of our events

A user-friendly, emancipatory and ethical tool for gathering, organising, and mobilizing.
joinmobilizon.org
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confuser
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Nice didn't know this existed, plus its framasoft so its got more attached to it already than just a dev who started a thing recently
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The Nexus of Privacy
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Mobilizon is a really solid project -- thanks for mentioning it @blaze@feddit.org !
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FarraigePlaisteach
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It’s a pity about the name. Cultural appropriation of native Americans is an ongoing problem and this is just tone deaf.

wernative.org/articles/native-…

Native Cultural Appropriation - We R Native

Cultural appropriation is when someone from the dominant culture (i.e. the most...
WeRNative
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confuser
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Are you trying to say that the name of smoke signal all is cultural appropriation?
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blue_berry
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My Harry Potter instance is doing okay, so yeah ... Harry Potter fandom is slowly growing in the Fediverse. A thing that a year ago I thought wouldn't be possible in the Fediverse. Seems really like there is enough room in the Fediverse to let different communities co-exists along with each other even if they don't agree on many things
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The Nexus of Privacy
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Interesting, my first reaction is that I also wouldn't have expected it but as you say there's a lot of room in the Fediverse. In Seven Theses On The Fediverse And The Becoming Of Floss, Aymeric Mansoux and Roel Roscam Abbing talk about the Fediverse as "a site for online agonistic pluralism", and this is a good example - radically different views coexisting.

Seven Theses On The Fediverse And The Becoming Of Floss

Cover of The Eternal Network Together with Aymeric Mansoux I co-authored an essay that looks at the interrelation between Free/Libre Open Source Software(F/LOSS) and the Fediverse, an alternative social media network.
roelroscamabbing.nl - the premier resource for "roel roscam abbing" on the web!
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blue_berry
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The article goes in a direction I like: plurality and to allow different communities to develop alongside each other is great. However, I still think we should push for establishing universal human rights. I'm not a fan of moral realitivism. I think every community should be able to get onto the Fediverse, but we don't need to applaud every community to do so, and can also take actions against communities that do bad things (e.g. by defederating).

I would recommend "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graber and David Wengrow, which shows how humans managed to live in different forms of community already throughout history. Maybe in the Fediverse, this could become more easy on the internet, too.

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That's really good news - we need more topic specific instances.
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