cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/45160218

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/45160073

I’ve been working on Habitat for the past two years. It all stemmed from this idea that I posted in April 2024.

Habitat is a free open-source, self hosted social platform for local communities. It is aimed at fostering local community discussions and discovery of areas of interest. This is why it is built primarily around location. A Habitat instance centers on a specific area, and the local community can make generic posts about that area, or they can make posts about specific locations in that area. More about what I’ve been building and the future plans here.

Features

• Habitat specification of location and size - enabling posts related to the local area
• Home feed - Displays the most recent posts
• Nearby feed - Displays posts sorted by proximity to the user
• Create posts - Upload photos, set locations, comments
• Categories - Location rules
• Amazon S3 image storage option
• Personalisation - Overrides Habitat defaults per user: kms/miles, hidden categories
• Moderation tools - User, post, comment moderation, block email addresses
• Announcements - Scheduled announcements
• Public moderation log - Keep moderator actions visible for 30 days

If you’re interest in this at all, please give it a spin and let me know how you get on. I’ll keep an eye here on Lemmy, but you can also post to the Habitat discussion board on GitHub.

That’s an interesting idea. I think this would be most successful in a city that prides itself on being high-tech. Maybe somewhere in Japan or somewhere in Silicon Valley or something.

Nice that doesn’t sound too hard

I hope this is allowed. After the untimely demise of the only NSFW Lemmy instance, a Piefed replacement has come along: https://fedinsfw.app/

I hadn’t seen many posts about it, so I thought others might want to know.

By this point I feel like I kinda am too, so this should be interesting.

Then the rules need to change

For averyone wondering why converser.eu is slow and/or you can’t register, I had a conversation with the admin of matrix instance converser.eu, the convo is in french so i’m copying the translation here ! (I did remove my and someone else’s answers so you only have their explanations) “- FYI, I’m the admin of the converser.eu server. I know that right now, the server is a disaster. I’m doing my best. Synapse is a pain to administer and optimize. We have almost 7,000 accounts on the server and that number is still growing. We could greatly improve the situation by switching back to a server with SSD. I had to switch back to HDD because of disk space, which obviously doesn’t help performance. But I’m stuck because of budget constraints. However, if you feel like it, you can help: https:// liberapay.com/converser.eu/ . “ “- It’s been eight years since I launched the server, paying for successive servers to maintain the service. I’ve spent hours trying to understand performance issues when they arise, getting everything back up and running. In short, I’m doing my best.” “- Thank you for your support. I admit that I am very, very bad at communicating. And ultimately, when I launched the server eight years ago, I didn’t think it would take on such proportions. As for closing registrations, it’s complicated. Shutting the door when people need it or want to try it out could clearly discourage them from switching. And the converser.eu server is known for being open and hosted/managed in France. If I suddenly close registrations, I’ll have to deal with all the emails asking me “why can’t I register?””

The later people are paying to join and sustain an existing and thriving community built by the earlier people.

I mean, from that perspective, sure. But if the main concern is lack of storage, SSDs currently are of no help with that compared to HDDs (let alone with production being shifted over to serve AIs and datacenters).

Perhaps a dual SSD solution, but still would have to be planned with the potential outcome of either upgrading one of the SSDs or add a third one.

Hello again! Just thought I’d let you know that I’ve released the first version of Habitat: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat

Hey, I tried to make it so that upvotes people give this post and my comments won’t actually affect my nodeBB forum reputation. Anyone mind upvoting a few times to test this out.

For my own reference to see if it changed: c4e6fbe0-69a4-4007-aee3-e1856a863fa2-image.jpeg

On Piefed.zip 63 up, 3 down, 2 emojis (those should federate as up, AFAIK)

You can do your test here !testfediverse@jlai.lu (Lemmy) or here and here !testfediverse@feddit.online !testfediverse@tarte.nuage-libre.fr (piefed)

aye wtf based

Sorry for the late reply, but yeah I tried both ways.

Hello, I’m currently setting up a nodeBB forum with some federated Communities. I wanted to test out how this post will work throughout the other instances. If you would be kind enough to leave a comment to see if it works, I’d appreciate it. :)

Woohoo forums!!

Sorry I don’t have an answer to your question at the moment but I just would like to add that I, too am implementing activitypub in my blog and if you’d like to chat my DMs are open :)

@anthony@forum.unfinishedprojects.net did a like from an Mbin instance. 13 likes on my side.

Well that’s fucking stupid when we know deplatforming works. Also you’re using specific definitions to deliberately misunderstand the paradox of tolerance so this is a stupid argument in the first place.

Your willful ignorance & stubborn denial of Karl Popper directly quoted writing is not a valid argument. Multiple references cited prove you wrong & you’ve cited nothing. Conventional definitions found here & all over the place (from wikipedia & to SEP) fit Karl Popper’s usage and prove you’re wrong. You’re just wrong. > A fucking high school intellect wrote that garbage article. Also, fuck pacifism, that’s a tool of fascists.

You should be troubled that highschooler can refute you: work on yourself. > And next time use your own words instead of a gpt.

Cool speculative ad hominem: beep boop. Try arguing better with logic & evidence next time, genius.