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There are plenty of new ideas happening on the Fediverse but without the advertising budget none of them are catching on. So, instead, you end up with "Twitter

There are plenty of new ideas happening on the Fediverse but without the advertising budget none of them are catching on. So, instead, you end up with "Twitter but not tied to just Twitter" and "Instagram but not just tied to Meta", because those are services people recognise. A good example of this may be https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ https://joinmobilizon.org/en/, which I haven't heard of a non-Fediverse alternative for. What doesn't help is that the Fediverse can't just design its own protocol and run with it, the whole point is for stuff to be federated. A minimal compatibility with platforms like Mastodon or another video platform is expected, and that makes developing these platforms just a tad more difficult. This isn't exclusive to the Fediverse either. HN is a Reddit clone, which itself is a clone of every similar platform before it, going back all the way to NNTP and before; Facebook cloned Twitter into Threads, just about every messenger on my phone is just copies of copies, Google Docs is a worse copy of Microsoft Office, Bing is just Google with a theme, and so on.

bsammon 2y ago
> A good example of this may be https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ https://joinmobilizon.org/en/, AKA "Meetup but not tied to Meetup" (and French!)
Moru 2y ago
Oh, is that David Revoy graphics I see there? Why yes, it is! Mobilizon looks just like what my daughter was looking for, thanks! I love these different projects that aren't going the beaten path of the advertising industry. Life gets a bit harder in a way but also less distractions.
thih9 2y ago
> A good example of this may be https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ https://joinmobilizon.org/en/, which I haven't heard of a non-Fediverse alternative for. The landing page of that service says that it is: “an ethical alternative to Facebook events, groups and pages”.
Neonlicht 2y ago
Look I can install TikTok with one push of a button on my phone. That's how you get every 12 year old girl on the planet to use your app in the first place. No secret club nonsense.
ITwork2019 2y ago
there is also gancio.org for a calendar solution
openrisk 2y ago
mobilizon is a great concept. It embodies the "decentralization" promise of the fediverse better than microblogging and similar publishing oriented platforms that have no concept of locality. Events aim to bring and bind together a small number of real people in localized communities, so less room for online troll/bot farms, less scope for remote control, data mining / algorithmization of everything. It is deployable in a single VPS and there is a magic moment when it federates events with the (few) other mobilizon servers. With some further investment in usability and functionality it would be ready for prime time. Whether the world will mobilize, though, that is another question...

bsammon 2y ago

> A good example of this may be https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ https://joinmobilizon.org/en/, AKA "Meetup but not tied to Meetup" (and French!)

Moru 2y ago

Oh, is that David Revoy graphics I see there? Why yes, it is! Mobilizon looks just like what my daughter was looking for, thanks! I love these different projects that aren't going the beaten path of the advertising industry. Life gets a bit harder in a way but also less distractions.

thih9 2y ago

> A good example of this may be https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ https://joinmobilizon.org/en/, which I haven't heard of a non-Fediverse alternative for. The landing page of that service says that it is: “an ethical alternative to Facebook events, groups and pages”.

Neonlicht 2y ago

Look I can install TikTok with one push of a button on my phone. That's how you get every 12 year old girl on the planet to use your app in the first place. No secret club nonsense.

ITwork2019 2y ago

there is also gancio.org for a calendar solution

openrisk 2y ago

mobilizon is a great concept. It embodies the "decentralization" promise of the fediverse better than microblogging and similar publishing oriented platforms that have no concept of locality. Events aim to bring and bind together a small number of real people in localized communities, so less room for online troll/bot farms, less scope for remote control, data mining / algorithmization of everything. It is deployable in a single VPS and there is a magic moment when it federates events with the (few) other mobilizon servers. With some further investment in usability and functionality it would be ready for prime time. Whether the world will mobilize, though, that is another question...