Wow, wild! It's been incredible seeing how quickly NodeBB has been getting updates. You're hard to keep up with!
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Thinking about Fediverse Wikis@nutomic@lemmy.ml Thanks for this! We've been considering trying out Ibis, maybe this would be a good chance to review it and report back to you on what the platform's current affordances are, and what we feel like might be missing. Obviously, you don't necessarily want to replicate MediaWiki, but it might be good to see what ideas are worth bringing over.
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A really good introduction to Solid for newcomersThis is an older video by Noel De Martin, a developer in the Solid space who has been building web applications on Solid technologies for years now. I think he does a great job with presenting the key concepts of Solid in a way that's mostly visual, and doesn't feel too obstrusive. This was the video that really helped the idea of Solid "click" for me, after years of struggling to understand it.
From Zero to Hero with Solid | FOSDEM 2023 | Noel De Martin
Presentation given at FOSDEM on February 2023. Slides: https://noeldemartin.com/slides/from-zero-to-hero-with-solid
Spectra Video (spectra.video)
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ActivityPods FOSDEM presentationReally great talk! I think he did a really good job of introducing the concept of Solid with ActivityPub together, and why this combination would be desirable for people.
Super excited to see the future of this project, I would love to see frontends from popular Fediverse servers ported over to ActivityPods app architecture.
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ActivityPods FOSDEM presentationActivityPods - FOSDEM 2025 presentation
Spectra is a PeerTube instance dedicated to supporting original content creators, and building the video community within the fediverse!
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ActivityPods: Supporting the Emergence of a Truly Decentralized and Neutral Social Network, by Sébastien Rosset
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Greetings from Lemmy@altcode@community.nodebb.org Hmm, weird. Can see your reply and the screenshot, not totally sure why my response came up as empty on your end?
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Test from PieFed!Yep, looks great!
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Greetings from Lemmy@squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de We can read you loud and clear!
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We Distribute is Always Looking For Help!Our project has existed in some form or another since about 2015. That's a long time. There have been shifts, evolutions, and reboots to our initiative, and we've managed to do some pretty cool stuff over the years.
One of the more challenging areas of maintaining this effort at We Distribute is that we're a really small team doing lots of different jobs at once. As the head of the project, I find myself doing:
- Writing / Editing Content
- Managing a Content Calendar
- Content Distribution and Promotion
- Conducting / Recording / Publishing Podcast Episodes (Video and Audio)
- Social Media for over a dozen accounts
- Outreach
- Infrastructure Management
- Calls and Meetings
- User Donation Management / Accounting
- Research
- Community Management
- Volunteer coordination
That's just what I can think of off the top of my head, right now. There's probably more stuff. I enjoy doing these things, and feel passionate about the space and the project, but it's a lot. The potential for burnout is high.
We've tried to do volunteer outreach a number of times, to varying degrees of success. Working with volunteers who are doing it on their free time is a bit like herding cats,
Our Goals for 2025
In 2024, we registered We Distribute Media as a non-profit corporation in Arizona. We want to take this to the next level, by becoming a US-based 501c3 charity organization. Our hope is to launch a crowdfunding campaign, pursue some grants, and begin paying writers and other contributors. We want to make We Distribute a great community news organization, and we want to increase our output as well as start regularly pushing out new media for both our podcast and other initiatives.
What Are We Looking For
I'll try to keep this short and sweet.
- We need help with writing articles. There's so much stuff happening all the time, and it's hard to stay on top of. I'm a full-time student right now, and it's hard to get more than a few articles out per week.
- We need help with researching potential stories and situations. The Fediverse is only getting bigger, and we try to straddle Fediverse coverage with Nostr and Bluesky. We could be doing a lot better at this.
- We need help with social media management. It's hard to come up with scheduled posts on a whim, and we could really benefit from people who are passionate about showcasing the cultural and technical developments in the space.
If there's any interest in helping us get to that next level in 2025, please reach out to us at: hello@wedistribute.org!
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Cool Projects That You Probably Didn't Know AboutThe crazy thing about ActivityPub is that there's way more projects out there than you might realize. A seasoned Fedizen might be able to easily think of about a dozen or so platforms in the space, but I wanted to take the time to focus on the more esoteric ones we've come across.
Feel free to share ones you've found!
- Ibis - ActivityPub-based Wiki
- Transit Fedilerts - a bot system that sends transit notifications.
- Corteza - DIY federated Salesforce thing with an AI app building framework.
- Dokieli - decentralized publishing with ActivityPub and RDF, may have Solid capabilities?
- FitTrackee - self-hosted fitness tracker, ActivityPub support in development.
- NeoDB - a review platform for just about everything, some incredible ideas about data integration.
More to come!
