Promoting NodeBB/fedi to city-scale organizations
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@johannab@cosocial.ca asks:
> NodeBB strikes me as the best aligned of the extant platforms for municipal governments. Here's a question for julian: is he prepared for, or interested in, a promotion program to city-scale organizations?
To which I answered, simply: "Yes."
Now that I have the time to expand on my answer:
Yes, absolutely! There is definitely a space for municipal city-scale adoption of the fediverse through properties that they alone control, but federate widely. [...]
I imagine a local-fedi where my mayor posts via
olivia@toronto.ontario.gc.ca, and she can talk to her constituents on neighbourhood-level instances likebloorwest.socialordanforth.space, or anybody worldwide via the power of the fediverse.Right now we're in the unfortunate position where the city is posting notices to X/Twitter, and cross-posting to Facebook and Instagram. I would bet a lot of money most other municipalities are doing the exact same thing. Adding in the fediverse should be straightforward, and I welcome any opportunity to make it happen.
Let's make some connections!
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In Italy, we've attempted this experiment at https://citiverse.it, which we haven't yet adequately promoted. However, it's a NodeBB instance designed primarily to create an alternative to local Facebook groups. The entire first section is made up of categories hierarchically coordinated by regions, cities, provincial capitals, and localities.
Thanks to NodeBB's features, we were able to begin capturing some posts from the Fediverse, especially from Mastodon, and some categories have finally been populated by actual users who decided to mention them directly from the Fediverse or who signed up to the forum to publish new posts.We don't claim to be the official forum for all Italian communities. But the greatest advantage NodeBB offers is that if one day someone were to decide to create an entire forum dedicated to a region or a single city, we could simply deactivate that category or subcategory and link the newly created category as a remote category.
All this has been possible thanks to the fact that in just over a year, NodeBB has become a fantastic and extremely versatile tool.
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Anyway, #fediprofile supports boosting #pixelfed now
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lol the nuances I find when developing for activitypub ...
I found out #mastodon resolve the ids of the create activities , e.g. https://mastodon.ie/users/IanOB/statuses/116185301517466965/activity
but #pixelfed does not (e.g https://pixelfed.social/p/mahop/935715884483618042/activity) and these are the actual ids that come in the object.
What is more interesting is that you can actually announce create activities, and mastodon fallback to actually "boosting" but not notifying the creator as boosted. Other people would see it properly.
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@lexinova
A desktop app is planned, but a web interface is not something we will build. The core principle of Holos is that your data stays on your device, not on a remote server serving web pages.
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I get that part. But somehow the wording you used in your initial post made it sound like the local transcoding was something undesirable and unusual...
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@agowa338
Holos runs an ActivityPub server on your phone. Transcoding locally is not a workaround, it follows the same logic: your device is the server. The cloud storage part (S3/WebDAV) is there so your media stays reachable when your phone is offline. The goal is to give regular users full ownership of their data while staying part of the Fediverse.
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@apps what still miss is a way to log (even remotely) on a web portal (meaning having something similar to web mastodon) for when we use a computer.
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@apps So basically just like "Enhanced Broadcasting " on services like twitch.
You kinda make it sound like this was a drawback of using "non big us cloud" services...
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116183535316096143
Some news from #HolosSocial development. The latest release moves media processing to the device. Videos are transcoded locally before upload. Users can store media on their own S3 or WebDAV server, and the resulting URLs are used directly in #ActivityPub activities. The relay server handles neither transcoding nor media storage. Each user brings their own resources to the #Fediverse.
