Seems like it would be really hard for it to hit critical mass of users but I really like the premise of the platform, I'll have to make an account
Thanks for posting it! ☺️
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I joined last week and I'm already seeing more local people like from neighbouring towns and I'm not in a huge city or anything
Thats sick as fuck, super excited to hear that!
I think if they focus on interop with other platforms, like using hashtags for regional posts, it could work
Thats the secret sauce of the Fediverse.
It doesnt have to compete/steal attention across apps. It can cooperate and combine it.
Realistically, they'll build FediHood against Mastodon and its inner workings and call it a day.
Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte all have (partly optional) dedicated profile fields for your location (street, town, postal code, region/state, nation, Facebook-style "hometown" as in place of origin). FediHood could use these. But, like so often, I've got my doubts that the makers of FediHood even only know that Friendica exists.
I mean, if they really knew even only Friendica and Hubzilla, they would have made FediHood a third-party add-on for Hubzilla.
It says it has Mastodon integration, but what about lemmy?
I tried @tagging a community and it didn't work
they're also adding support for events:
#FediHood now supports #ActivityPub events, which means it is compatible with software such as #Mobilizon. You can create and receive events in the area you selected.
Joining and leaving events is not implemented yet.
is there somewhere a list of ActivityPub server software that supports events? a very useful thing, but I think only mobilizon and friendica supports it, both of which are buggy, and otherwise not as easy to recommend as lemmy or mastodon.
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Pretty neat. There's one post in the same city. Another one about 150 km away, and third one about 350 km away. I really expected everyone to be like at least 3 Mm away from me.
Nice use of Mm bro
Some people like to keep on adding zeroes, but I prefer to remove them. 3 400 000 m^3 of water is just 3.4 GL.
Hmm, I was hoping the source-code would give some disclosure on LLM use, but it is just a single commit and doesn't mention LLM use. Call me jaded, but that feels a bit like covering your tracks to avoid that topic being raised.
I checked as well, but the author has plenty older projects(fedilab among them) to check (I didn't go as far, but I'd be surprised they'd actively cover tracks when they have over active repos).
Fedilab is clean but their latest project, holos, is ai-ridden. As nice as fedihood sounds the history does make me hesitant to follow it
sounds very interesting! i am moving to a new city next month so i would love finding some localised stuff more easily :D
any screenshots of what it looks like when signed in?
thanks so much
Cool. We need something other than NextDoor. I’m like, I know you people! You don’t act this way in person!
do we? do we even need nextdoor?
If i wanted to talk to my neighbors, I'd go outside and do it.
I do. I have cool neighbors. But it’s a good way to hear from other neighborhoods what people are sharing regarding local issues.
The problem is it gets toxic due to politics.
sounds like you are hitting every point for talking face to face and avoiding an online replacement.
I had a few neighborhoods where we had email groups or Facebook groups.
It's a good way to interact with people asynchronously.
That's really promising, I have to test this
Well, there are 5 posts in my state in germany, but the idea is cool.
This seems unreasonable to me:
Only one browser at a time holds the keys decrypting new messages, moving needs a fresh backup from the active browser.
Messages sent after the backup was taken stay unreadable on this browser.
I don't think an encrypted message feature is necessary for this kind of a web app. If people want to send encrypted messages, they can just switch to a different service for that. Like you get them to know on fedihood, exchange matrix handles or phone numbers or whatever, and then you can use a different service for private communication.
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Makes e2ee much easier that way.
I feel like it should still work if making a backup didn't clear a browser, and restoring to a second browser should let both work.
key management is lot harder. signal does not support multi-clients for a reason, you can look at the history of matrix with encryption to find out what are the problem is. I'm not sure they even fixed or just know of all the failure modes of it.
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this sounds neat!
Cool - I joined
So it’s holos.social on a server? Did I get that right?
Interesting idea.
Does it federate with regular Mastodon instances?
Yes, but there's no ability to search for users yet. So I guess you have to tag them or message them before you can follow them, or maybe if they follow you first
Signed on with GMX e-mail address for account recovery, confirmation email went into the spam folder.
Except for that, very nice registration process.
I made an account yesterday and it all seemed fine but after some hours it went empty. Can't see any posts or anything and my profile is empty as well with a "?" as an icon 🤔
I've noticed this too, had to log out and back in
Tried signing up with a proton email but still haven't received a confirmation. Are there currently problems with sign ups?
Apparently the advice is that because the domain is so young, emails could get filtered into spam https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117140609785780347
Yeah I checked the spam folder, but nothing showed up. No worries maybe I'll check it out another time.
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