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Thoughts on HumHub? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 2 years ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Over time I've been on the lookout for social media for family to use. I haven't really found anything suitable, key thing is that posting photos and videos needs to be user friendly. For example, Friendica all but requiring you to upload your video to YouTube and post the embedded video is just not gonna fly.

I've seen Zusam in the past, which looks like it could become something but I don't think it's ready for me to try to get extended family into. (It's worth mentioning here that certain extended family have shown interest in using something like this)

Recently I've had a look around at some Enterprise social solutions, and have had a play with HumHub. It has a much more familiar look, things are separated into spaces that are similar to Facebook groups, and while media uploads aren't perfect I think they will work well enough.

HumHub has modules, many of which cost a decent amount of money, because they target the enterprise market. However, the community version is open source and the base features and free modules seem to work well.

Does anyone have experience using it? Any warnings I should know about? Any similar software that does a better job?

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The idea of a snikket server is good, but I feel it's not much different that any other chat app. HumHub works on both mobile and desktop, and provides many features above a chat app. It's more similar to Facebook groups (which people are already familiar with) but without the spying, whereas I don't get the benefit of Snikket over say Signal.

What is it that makes it unsuitable for families? It seems to be pretty familiar feeling to people used to Facebook.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Since Snikket is just an XMPP server, it can be used with desktop apps like Dino as well.

All the corporate gamification feature are probably quite annoying.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 years ago

All the corporate gamification feature are probably quite annoying.

I might have missed that. What features are you thinking about? I haven't seen any points or badges or things like that?