We Distribute is teaming up with Bonfire to develop a new kind of social instance - one that elevates curation and discovery to promote all things Fediverse. It’s a social instance, but also a discovery portal.
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- fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 hours
Is there a way to read the article that doesn’t download a file?
1 daySounds cool! Although I do not really get it.
I always miss the basic grammar of software platform announcements - making things hard to understand. Especially fedi-projects can be confusing.
So, it is an instance. How do I interact with it? As a user on that instance or any fedi instance?
Do I use the website or my own instance?
Basically who am I (the user), and what do I do? And where do I do it?
Thanks
It’s going to be, group federation only partially works in Bonfire today. The devs are very close to shipping it in an upcoming stable release.
Should be good now, we redeployed onto a beta release to test out some feature fixes. We’re basically dogfooding this every day!
Seems to be a mix between what WeDistribute currently is, but aggregating content from different sources, and a Bonfire instance. So an effort to mix the old web with the social web. The best parallel to me seems to be websites with associated forums back in the old days, but a federated version.
I’m interested to see how it works out.
ha, i wouldnt call that new. from the description, its just a super-auto-subscriber with large local store and prolly some nice search on that store.
but, theres like a dozen apps that do that now… and kinda have for years.
what am i missing that sets this apart?
No, that’s accurate. It’s basically that, except it’s done through ActivityPub federation, aggregates a bunch of different types of activity objects, and makes them sortable / searchable / filterable / rendered in a pretty interface. It can even help provide a lot of that info to other instances connected to it.
Like, aside from some foundational bits, the technology itself is not super special. Actually, Bonfire does a ton of really cool things under the hood, but that’s only a little bit relevant.
On the bright side, it does make a bunch of things easier to find, search for, and learn about:
- Groups
- Events
- Articles
- Collections of Actors
- Any type of media
Like, honestly it’s an idea that sounds kind of stupid on the surface, but it’s basically federated Yahoo with a grassroots bent. But I think there are aspects, from a community organizing aspect, that this could actually be useful. It’s like hyperlocalism but for the network itself. You offer ways for people to find communities, read about what’s being developed, find some mom and pop business, commission an artist, listen to some music.
I think what might really set it apart is that no one has built a Fediverse instance specifically geared towards that way of thinking. That’s what we’re interested in trying.
its funny, because i setup my server with the idea in mind i would just subscribe the “system” to everything, making the local search the primary one for users.
mbin was the only product at the time that covered the most AP objects so i could grab microblog and threadiverse shit.
scaling will always be an issue. not sure how youre going to get around that… and the god damn scrapers. its hard to keep an open system when the world wants to break it.
“What’s he building in there?”
I applaud the Tom Waits reference at the top of the article.
Sounds like what I’ve been dreaming of for a while. Curious to see how things work out.
