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Carl Newton

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  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • People keep making the comparison. I don't know, I'm not sure what features next door has, but I know it isn't self hosted.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Hello!

    1. Existing instances: www.irthlingborough.net - despite the fact that I've been working on this for two years, you are amongst the first people to ever see a proper release. Before now, it would've been a challenging task for anyone else to install an instance. So I believe the only instance is that of my home town.
    2. Users can only post locations within the proximity of their own habitat. The marker can only be placed inside of a circle determined by the admin. Additionally, you can create a registration challenge that relies on local knowledge for someone to sign up.
    3. I've built in moderation tools to make banning, freezing accounts, promoting moderators, blocking email addresses etc. The idea is that communities will be small and manageable by small teams as a result.

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  • I'm glad you found the translations folder. Support for different languages was always in the plan, I just wanted to see if anyone actually plans on installing and using it before I keep going with that. You'll see it's in progress on the GitHub project board.

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  • This wasn't my intention. What does it make my post look like?

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  • Yes, categories are built in, but act more like labels to the main feed. You can look at a category homepage to see posts only in that category and hide posts from your main feed that belong in a category.

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  • Unless you live in my home town, it's highly unlikely that there are any other instances yet. From a practical point of view, until I build in federation, it's a matter of literal word of mouth between people of a community. Once it's federated, the nearby tab will show you your closest instance.

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  • Thanks for this. I hadn't considered it but it seems like a really obvious thing now you've said it .. testament to a good idea I think! I'll add it.

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  • No worries, I appreciate the feedback! I was afraid that these posts would go without a single discussion!

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  • I've built in the ability to hide categories for this kind of reason. I was thinking, for instance, that people who enjoy a good moan can join the "Moaners Club" category, and the rest of us can hide that category from our feeds to get on with the categories we enjoy. Regarding problematic moderators, I have built a moderation log to keep them accountable, and of course, if they don't show themselves to have good intentions, those with good intentions could create their own instance -- I don't know why I'm going into this kind of detail -- you're on Lemmy after all, you know the score!

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  • Now that's an interesting idea!

    This release is step one in the plan. Federation is step two! More information on this here: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

    I love what activitypub has done for the internet, but I don't think it will be right for this project, but yes to federation -- if there are instances to federate with of course!

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  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Awesome! Let me know how you get on!

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

  • Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place?

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  • I'm Building Habitat

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  • No, I haven't heard of this. But given that both of our projects appear to be about location, and both use Leaflet, OpenStreetMap and Symfony, I imagine that there might be some things I could learn from his. I'll get in touch with him! Thanks! :D

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  • Hey, I gave this a watch but their use of the word 'local' doesn't match mine in this case. When I use the word local, I'm referring to a geographic area, or at least a server that represents a geographic area. It looks like when local-first talk about local, they're referring to interaction on a device. It would be nice to be able to have habitat not require an internet connection to queue a post, this is a great idea and I'll look into that, but their point on "it should still work on device if the remote server is down (or even disappears forever)" I don't believe is possible when we're building a community platform. Or, at least, if such a thing is possible, I wouldn't know where to begin. I appreciate the heads-up though, I love that such a group exists.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    I'm Building Habitat

    carlnewton.github.io /posts/building-habitat/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    I'm Building Habitat

    carlnewton.github.io /posts/building-habitat/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place?

    carlnewton.github.io /posts/location-based-social-network/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place?

    carlnewton.github.io /posts/location-based-social-network/