carlnewton
@carlnewton@feddit.uk
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Thanks for this. Regarding your point on on making people care, I’ve just written up a post that touches on this: feddit.uk/post/45292700
Federation is not yet built in, but I have a plan. There are some details here: …github.io/…/location-based-social-network/#conne…
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
What features are you thinking? To put a price on a post/mark as sold etc?
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Yes, this is a good point! I don’t necessarily want to slow one Habitat down when waiting for the response of another. It could lock up other requests. If it’s possible to send the user the url to retrieve posts with frontend javascript, that may definitely be worth looking into. It sounds like an XSS minefield though, but it could very well be the way to go.
Thanks for this.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Ah I see. No, no specialised type of post for events, date based information, invite systems, or anything like that. I can see why that would be good though so I’ll give it some thought.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
:D This is great news for everyone except for the creature.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
I was also running it on an aws ec2 t3.micro instance with no issue. I only switched to host it locally because I wanted to build for those who own home labs also, and I didn’t want to pay the ~£20 a month for the micro instance.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
I’m running my instance from a refurbished Dell Optiplex 5060. It’s a very low power light weight computer. Maybe not as light-weight as a raspberry pi though, I’m not sure on that.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
It could certainly be used like that. For me personally, I like the idea of discussing local areas of beauty, monuments, history of the area etc
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Could you help me understand what you mean by “hosting community events”? Your users can create posts about events, but it has no tools for video calls or anything like that. Users can create posts in the categories created by the administrator. They can leave comments on those posts. There are a bunch of moderation tools and ability for the administrator to have settings for posts based on the category they’re in.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Federation has always been in the plan. Success for an individual instances is all the matters to any given owner, not success globally. The owner of an instance must have a vested interest in fostering their local community.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
I’m still going! It’s been my weekend obsession for two years!
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Not activity pub specifically, but federation has always been in the plan.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
People keep making the comparison. I don’t know, I’m not sure what features next door has, but I know it isn’t self hosted.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Hello!
- Existing instances: www.irthlingborough.net - despite the fact that I’ve been working on this for two years, you are amongst the first people to ever see a proper release. Before now, it would’ve been a challenging task for anyone else to install an instance. So I believe the only instance is that of my home town.
- Users can only post locations within the proximity of their own habitat. The marker can only be placed inside of a circle determined by the admin. Additionally, you can create a registration challenge that relies on local knowledge for someone to sign up.
- I’ve built in moderation tools to make banning, freezing accounts, promoting moderators, blocking email addresses etc. The idea is that communities will be small and manageable by small teams as a result.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
I’m glad you found the translations folder. Support for different languages was always in the plan, I just wanted to see if anyone actually plans on installing and using it before I keep going with that. You’ll see it’s in progress on the GitHub project board.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
This wasn’t my intention. What does it make my post look like?
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Unless you live in my home town, it’s highly unlikely that there are any other instances yet. From a practical point of view, until I build in federation, it’s a matter of literal word of mouth between people of a community. Once it’s federated, the nearby tab will show you your closest instance.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Thanks for this. I hadn’t considered it but it seems like a really obvious thing now you’ve said it … testament to a good idea I think! I’ll add it.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Please do have a read of this: …github.io/…/location-based-social-network/#conne…
I feel quite confident that a gossip protocol approach is the right way to go, but seamless connectivity to other instances is absolutely planned!
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
I’ve built in the ability to hide categories for this kind of reason. I was thinking, for instance, that people who enjoy a good moan can join the “Moaners Club” category, and the rest of us can hide that category from our feeds to get on with the categories we enjoy. Regarding problematic moderators, I have built a moderation log to keep them accountable, and of course, if they don’t show themselves to have good intentions, those with good intentions could create their own instance – I don’t know why I’m going into this kind of detail – you’re on Lemmy after all, you know the score!
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Now that’s an interesting idea!
This release is step one in the plan. Federation is step two! More information on this here: carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
I love what activitypub has done for the internet, but I don’t think it will be right for this project, but yes to federation – if there are instances to federate with of course!
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
It’s distributed – you’ll need to create an instance for your own area. To do so, take a look at the getting started section: github.com/carlnewton/habitat?tab=readme-ov-file#…
More information of what it is and how it’s planned to be in the future is in my previous blog posts:
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
This is my local instance: www.irthlingborough.net
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Awesome! Let me know how you get on!
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