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Darius Kazemi Dec 30, 2019

I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool https://gath.io

The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars.

Check out more at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/organizing-on-32729070

Gathio

An easier, quicker, and much less privacy-invading way to make and share events

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Darius Kazemi Dec 30, 2019

Also on the todo list is to add an Events tab to Hometown that keeps track of events you've RSVPed to. (For federation nerds: this will be driven by ActivityPub `Event` activities sent to a user's inbox after they've successfully RSVPed.)

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wakest likes your bugs ⁂Dec 30, 2019

@darius so is this test already using the new event tag that just got merged into masto?

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El Dorado Dec 30, 2019

@@liaizon @@darius Got a link so I can check compat with Zap ? We should be OK with HomeTown's events and RSVPs but I hadn't heard anything about an event tag.

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wakest likes your bugs ⁂

@mike @darius this is what I was referring to, tag was the wrong word to use. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/12637

Add Event activity-type support by tcitworld · Pull Request #12637 · tootsuite/mastodon

This adds support for Event AP type in Mastodon. Events are converted into toots by taking their title (AS name) and their URL (AP ID). Event picture is also brought in if available. Testable by fe...