Meet Fedibook!

[informapirata@activitypub.space]

> @leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se said:
>
> Never managed to make Friendica work well, but this seems very promising. (Not their fault, probably too much legacy stuff in the project)

Friendica is a fun and very powerful software (it's currently objectively the most powerful in the Fediverse), but its ergonomics make it difficult to use, and Hubzilla makes the user experience even more difficult.
The only alternative on the horizon is Bonfire, but even that isn't exactly easy to master.
Fedibook is currently little more than a concept, but it has a simple and very interesting interface. It also seems to natively manage groups, although I haven't tested them with federation yet.
For this reason, I believe Fedibook is a very interesting project and one that deserves close attention.

Congratulations to @sindum@mstdn.dk for his initiative!

[julian@activitypub.space]

@informapirata, @sindum@mstdn.dk says no groups federation yet, but the way is paved!

I'm happy to work with him on it when it's time 😎

[sindum@mstdn.dk]

@julian There is federation between fedibook instances usingActivityPub. But I cant see how groups will match i.e. Mastodon.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@julian interesting to see this come together, and it looks pretty good from the outside already, but I think @sindum needs to be a bit more upfront with how much of this whole thing is being made with Claude Code and how much is being coded by humans. I personally don't care that much that they are using it, but there is a tendency in the fediverse for extreme reactions and if people feel they are being tricked by something the reaction can be overwhelming

[sindum@mstdn.dk]

@liaizon @julian I'm not trying to hide that Claude Code is major player here. I'm fast prototyping

[julian@activitypub.space]

@sindum@mstdn.dk you wouldn't cater to Mastodon here. You'd be connecting with the threadiverse which is sometimes considered distinct from the microblog averse due to lack of proper support in Mastodon.

[ailurocrat@scicomm.xyz]

@sindum @liaizon @julian people will block for exactly that reason. Funding sociopathic ceos through slopcoding is not a good way to build a fedi server. Especially when fedi is FULL of devs who could've helped you do it instead.

[sindum@mstdn.dk]

@ailurocrat @liaizon @julian Hi Spark. I respect and understand your view. I don't like where it is going either, but I do think that ignoring new possibilities will leave open source and the fediverse behind.

As I see it, the sociopathic CEOs are already stealing from open source — so why not turn that around and build new open source from it. Hopefully in a way that enables humans to build on it further. For now I'm using whatever tools are available to explore new possibilities. I understand that this approach is unusual, but I hope there is room for this too.

[ailurocrat@scicomm.xyz]

@sindum @liaizon @julian I'd rather have people contributing code they understand and can maintain than prompt something that introduces more bugs than it fixes and introduces a significant lack of clarity around licensing itself that indeed could threaten free and open source software.

[sindum@mstdn.dk]

@ailurocrat @liaizon @julian I get your point.