This cool new thing that was just created recently called smoke signal that is basically a fediverse alternative to website like meetup.com
Once I saw this I had realized what was missing from the fediverse experience and that this was it, local interaction!
It’s a pity about the name. Cultural appropriation of native Americans is an ongoing problem and this is just tone deaf.
https://www.wernative.org/articles/native-cultural-appropriation
Are you trying to say that the name of smoke signal all is cultural appropriation?
My Harry Potter instance is doing okay, so yeah … Harry Potter fandom is slowly growing in the Fediverse. A thing that a year ago I thought wouldn’t be possible in the Fediverse. Seems really like there is enough room in the Fediverse to let different communities co-exists along with each other even if they don’t agree on many things
That’s really good news - we need more topic specific instances.
A lot is going on in and around Hubzilla recently. Version 9.4 has only been released a couple of weeks ago, and it already got four bugfix releases. We might actually be approaching Hubzilla 10 in the not-so-distant future which will adopt a few features from (streams).
Scott M. Stolz is back at developing his new third-party themes which we expect to improve Hubzilla’s UX. On top of that, he plans to launch a bunch of new public hubs, also so aspiring users in North America won’t have to resort to overseas hubs.
The re-writing of Hubzilla’s entire help in German and English is on-going.
Most recent surprise: Someone has managed to integrate the Bandcamp alternative Faircamp into a Hubzilla channel.
If only (streams) had more people taking care of it…
Thanks, I’ll include something about Hubzilla’s progress … the proof of concept Faircamp integration is interesting, do you know if anybody’s following up on it?
Not more than mentioned in that thread.
But I guess the cat’s out the bag, it’s known that this is doable, so maybe this won’t stay the only time.
That, and/or people might bolt other stuff to Hubzilla.
And what do you know, HUGO was bolted to Hubzilla.
