FediHood is a social network built around the place where you live. You choose a city and the topics you care about, then read what neighbours are saying and join in.
It stays a normal fediverse app. Your posts can reach Mastodon, PixelFed, Misskey and the rest, and posts from those servers reach you too.
Source code: https://git.holos.social/tom79/FediHood
There's only one instance so far: https://fedihood.social/
If new instances are created, they should show up here: https://fedihood.fediverse.observer/list
57 Comments
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 60 pts · 13d
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! ☺️
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 13d
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
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 15 pts · 13d
Thats sick as fuck, super excited to hear that!
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 16 pts · 13d
I think if they focus on interop with other platforms, like using hashtags for regional posts, it could work
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d
Thats the secret sauce of the Fediverse.
It doesnt have to compete/steal attention across apps. It can cooperate and combine it.
JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 6d
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.
arotrios@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 13d
It says it has Mastodon integration, but what about lemmy?
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 10 pts · 13d
I tried @tagging a community and it didn't work
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 24 pts · 13d
they're also adding support for events:
https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117135294099685805
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 11d
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.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 11d
PieFed supports events, but only if you're posting to a PieFed community not a Lemmy community
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 12d
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.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 12d
Nice use of Mm bro
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 11d
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.
strop@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 11d
3.400000 GL
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 11d
LOL. Wait until you hear about the other prefixes: μL, nL, pL, aL etc. There’s even more of you really want to max it out.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 19 pts · 12d
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.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden · 6 pts · 12d
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).
rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 7 pts · 12d
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
Kierunkowy74@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 12d
Both Holos and Fedihood use LLMs for help with documentation, code review and automated actions, like refactoring or tests
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 12d
Neat idea, kinda like Nextdoor but not full of Facebook moms
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 11d
Wait.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 11d
Not full of them... Yet.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 11d
Facebook moms aren't techy enough to understand the fediverse
discoplasm@quokk.au · 13 pts · 13d
sounds very interesting! i am moving to a new city next month so i would love finding some localised stuff more easily :D
hexagon527@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 12d
any screenshots of what it looks like when signed in?
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 14 pts · 12d
hexagon527@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 12d
thanks so much
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 11d
Cool. We need something other than NextDoor. I’m like, I know you people! You don’t act this way in person!
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d
do we? do we even need nextdoor?
If i wanted to talk to my neighbors, I'd go outside and do it.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 11d
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.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d
sounds like you are hitting every point for talking face to face and avoiding an online replacement.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 11d
I had a few neighborhoods where we had email groups or Facebook groups.
It's a good way to interact with people asynchronously.
ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 12d
Well, there are 5 posts in my state in germany, but the idea is cool.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden · 7 pts · 13d
That's really promising, I have to test this
davidgro@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 12d
This seems unreasonable to me:
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 12d
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.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 11d
Because AI Surveillance states are nothing for concern.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 11d
Less friction is better though. And not everyone knows where else to go for E2E.
The problem to me would be development burden, but its alreast implemented so...
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 11d
E2EE is very hard to implement safely. serious cryptography is not a hobbyist project. just look at all the problems matrix has had with it.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 12d
Makes e2ee much easier that way.
davidgro@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 12d
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.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 11d
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.
davidgro@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d
Matrix is a good example I think: It allows a client to authorize another client so both work. It's not the same 'backup' scenario, but proves the concept can work.
Is there an easy reference for the history there? I've used it over the years but not regularly enough to see it changing.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 10d
I don't know of any, but check out the matrix.org youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Matrixdotorg they made presentations through multiple matrix conferences about how are they fixing multi client encryption
arindam01@piefed.iridescent.nz · 5 pts · 13d
So it’s holos.social on a server? Did I get that right?
barkingspiders@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 13d
this sounds neat!
SteveCC@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 13d
Cool - I joined
mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 4 pts · 13d
Interesting idea.
veggay@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 11d
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 🤔
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 11d
I've noticed this too, had to log out and back in
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 12d
Does it federate with regular Mastodon instances?
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 2 pts · 12d
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
Rijunox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11d
Tried signing up with a proton email but still haven't received a confirmation. Are there currently problems with sign ups?
Seimhe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
Apparently the advice is that because the domain is so young, emails could get filtered into spam https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/117140609785780347
Rijunox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
Yeah I checked the spam folder, but nothing showed up. No worries maybe I'll check it out another time.
hauke@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 9d
Signed on with GMX e-mail address for account recovery, confirmation email went into the spam folder.
Except for that, very nice registration process.