Next stop in the #fedivoyage!
This time: #mobilizon. It's for "event planning and group management" and is an alternative to meetup and eventbrite, according to Wikipedia. Wikipedia also says that there's federation to e.g. Mastodon – let's see!
Very fitting fun fact: a typical part of the domains for mobilizon instances seems to be "fomo" :>
A first look at the fediverse observer suggests that it's mainly used by southwest european people – at least by looking at the biggest instances.
The biggest German one seems to be fomobremen.info
Ooooh, if you're from #bremen then https://fomobremen.info/ could be very interesting! There's a *lot* of stuff there – I didn't expect to find such a lively server.
I can haz for Hamburg?
It seems that you don't actually need a login if you just want to browse events. But if you want to "participate" (whatever that means, I guess I'm going to find out...) you need an account – but maybe just on *any* fediverse instance?
Welp, now I need some event I can participate in...
@metaphil created an event for me (see the answer in this thread) \o/
If I try to access it via my Mastodon account (figure 1), mobilizon directs me to the mastodon view of the event (figure 2).
I answered with an important question:
https://chaos.social/@piko/111895943562243239
@[email protected] This sounds lovely! Will there also be tea?
But if you click on "Aktionen" (en: "actions"?), you get an invite link and can click to automatically share it on Mastodon, Diaspora and via mail. The other "Aktion" ("add to my calendar") downloads an .ics file – so no magic here.
I didn't find a possibility to participate via Mastodon yet, but I'll keep looking.
Next step in the #fedivoyage: Create an event. Here it is:
https://mobilizon.envs.net/events/38ccb2da-b0c3-4418-9dfc-d6588929454e
Feel free to interact; write a comment, or, if you even plan (and are allowed) to participate, then click on participate and tell me what happens :D
Creating a new event worked like a charm; I had some pleasant surprises!
I still want to play around with federation. Next time!
Piko
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