Pretty much in the title. Maybe you wouldn’t even use it, but would like to simply see it exist for the sake of having a federated alternative.

For me, it’d be the following:

  • LinkedIn
  • Meetup
  • Tiktok

I am on the first two, but would prefer a federated alternative. I’m not on Tiktok, but would like to see a federated alternative.

I’ll admit these might not be a good idea. But as a thought experiment, I’d be curious about the community weigh in on what you all think this might look like.

    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      11 months ago

      Thank you so much. Have you used it? Care to expand on uour experience with it?

      • Kierunkowy74@kbin.social
        6·
        11 months ago

        You probably want to use a regional instance to have more relevant users, groups and events, but there is a global search engine for Mobilizon

        For example, I am using a Polish instance, with an unsuprising domain https://mobilizon.pl

        With an account, you are able to publish events, with header image, title, category, tags, date, place, description (with formatting available), and metadata. The event can be accesible publicly, or only via link.
        The event (if public) can federate (and be boosted to e.g. Mastodon) and be commented, but you are able to turn off the comments.

        Individual account can only be followed from Friendica, but not from Mastodon.

        For more features you want to create a group. A group can be followed from Friendica and Mastodon, but only Mobilizon accounts can become its members. Group members are able to participate in discussions (not visible from outside), manage a “common resource folder” - links, make group events and group announcements

        You can experiment with Mobilizon features with a demo instance

    • danhakimi@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      oh man, that’s not pretty enough to start using as an alternative to, like, partiful (oh, yeah, I totally want to give my phone number to some random fucking website to go to a party) or wedding registry sites… but those don’t really need to be federated, huh?

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Fuck yeah, thank you. I went to check up meetup and it was like 90% liberal “how to be your own boss” “how to pay taxes on cypto” shit. I clicked on one that looked kinda neutral and the first thing I saw was the speaker bragging about being on, I kid you not, capitalism .com. Can’t even make this shit up. Also as a nice little bonus they had a tab just for conservatism but nothing even related to socialism. Fuck that place.

      EDIT: I checked it out and it seems primarily focused on French language and severely underpopulated by English stuff. I’ll have to check it out again in about a year and see if it’s going to be another mastodon situation because there just isn’t enough on offer at the moment.