Mastodawn

Meet Fedibook!

The idea came from thinking about what it actually takes to get regular users onto the fediverse. Mastodon is great (i love it), but the follow-based model feels unfamiliar to some. Friends and Groups though — that's something everyone already understands.

So Fedibook is a fediverse platform built around exactly that, using ActivityPub. Think federated address book meets social network, with the kind of social graph people are already used to.

Current status:

- Friend requests across servers working
- News feed working, with visibility levels: public, friends-only, or local server only

Hoping to open up for early testing and feedback soon. Open source of course.

#fediverse #activitypub #fedibook #danmarkskifter

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Michael Westergaard Mar 22

What does it do that Friendica or Hubzilla don’t? Seems to me the effort might be better spent on one of the existing projects with very similar goals instead of reinventing them.

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Rasmus Sindum

@michael I follow you and have though the same. But sometime a new take on the solution can show the way. This is a POC for now. If the result is a new drive for making e.i. Friendica better that would just as good. Sometimes it takes a new-kid-on-the-block to get things moving. I really really like to se a fediverse SoMe for the masses.