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

@[email protected] cool project, welcome to the fediverse.

How are your groups federated? Do they follow FEP 1b12?

Rasmus Sindum 3d ago

@julian Thanks!

Groups use the FEP-1b12 pattern — Group actors, Follow to join, Create to post, Announce to fan-out — but with one current limitation: group federation is Fedibook-to-Fedibook only for now. Non-Fedibook
instances get a Reject on Follow.

It's a pragmatic shortcut to get something working for now. Full cross-platform group support (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.) is the goal if it proves feasible.

Anders Cornelius Madsen 3d ago

Well, you know the drill - release early, release often. It's been 18 minutes - what are we waiting for? :)

Rasmus Sindum 3d ago

@madsenandersc Your are free to sign up at dev1.fedibook.dk or dev2.fedibook.dk but do understand that it is a playground and a peek into my dev system. Planning to deploy a demo env in the following week.

wakest likes your bugs ⁂1d ago

@sindum @madsenandersc sent a signup request, I would love to test out how federation is working rough edges and all

Rasmus Sindum 1d ago

@liaizon @madsenandersc Your are in - Welcome and happy testing. Great to see you

Thomas Arildsen 3d ago

@sindum how similar to, or different from, Friendica is it?

Rasmus Sindum 3d ago

@arildsen The goal is to make it more simpel to use, install and look like something many will reconize right away. It not that different from Friendica - but perhaps more active and modern looking.

Fediverse Connection 3d ago

Something like a lightweight Hubzilla, Friendica or Diaspora?

Jens Ljungkvist 3d ago

What will be the demands to run this? It looks much cleaner than Friendica.

Rasmus Sindum 3d ago

@jens a docker host and with a proxy. It will come with a traefik container ready to you or your can use your own. I dont know performance requirements yet, but I a'm for it to be low. Right now running in 8GB host also running ghost,peertube,wordpress etc.

Leander Lindahl 🇪🇺3d ago

@sindum i think you're on to something here. Looking forward to trying it out. 👍

It would be amazing if the group feature turns out to work well. Here in Sweden that's probably the main "lock-in" fb has on the users. You miss out on what's happening in your neighbourhood, town, summer vacation village, special interest community etc. Even political parties organise local and national groups through fb.

Leander Lindahl 🇪🇺3d ago

@sindum signed up, waiting for approval 😁

Rasmus Sindum 3d ago

@leanderlindahl Goodmoring - Approved - please understand that this is very earlydays - Welcome.

T o r b e n I m m i s c h 3d ago

@sindum Spændende! Signed op

Michael Westergaard 3d ago

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.

Rasmus Sindum 3d ago

@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.

Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸2d ago

@sindum @michael hubzilla is not user friendly, has both poor UX and UI.

While this is aiming at being user friendly first and foremost from what I'm reading

Enea Lecas 3d ago

@sindum To me, that looks interesting. The Friendica instance I was in went down, so I will consider joining.

Kristian Byg 3d ago

@sindum signed up - spændt på at udforske det! 😀 ( jeg er med på at det er på et tidlig stadie )

Rasmus Sindum 3d ago

@kristianrb Velkommen til byggelegepladsen 🙂

Kristian Byg 3d ago

@sindum Mange tak....byggemand Rasmus 😉
Første indtryk er godt....så langt så godt ✌️👍

Dane 🌎🖖✌️☮️⚛️☸️🕉️3d ago

@sindum I'm looking forward to your progress! Thank you for all the work thus far!

Andy Piper 3d ago

@sindum looks cool, interested to try this out!

Leander Lindahl 🇪🇺2d ago

@sindum from what I've seen so far today, this is a great idea. And great execution so far. You should put up a ko-fi and (eventually when you find the time) create governance around this project. It seems really really good.

Similar to, but not at all like Friendica. Never managed to make Friendica work well, but this seems very promising. (Not their fault, probably too much legacy stuff in the project)

informapirata 22h ago

@[email protected] said:

Never managed to make Friendica work well, but this seems very promising. (Not their fault, probably too much legacy stuff in the project)

Friendica is a fun and very powerful software (it's currently objectively the most powerful in the Fediverse), but its ergonomics make it difficult to use, and Hubzilla makes the user experience even more difficult.
The only alternative on the horizon is Bonfire, but even that isn't exactly easy to master.
Fedibook is currently little more than a concept, but it has a simple and very interesting interface. It also seems to natively manage groups, although I haven't tested them with federation yet.
For this reason, I believe Fedibook is a very interesting project and one that deserves close attention.

Congratulations to @[email protected] for his initiative!

⁂ ActivityPub.Space

⁂ ActivityPub.Space

@informapirata, @[email protected] says no groups federation yet, but the way is paved!

I'm happy to work with him on it when it's time 😎

Rasmus Sindum 20h ago

@julian There is federation between fedibook instances usingActivityPub. But I cant see how groups will match i.e. Mastodon.

@[email protected] you wouldn't cater to Mastodon here. You'd be connecting with the threadiverse which is sometimes considered distinct from the microblog averse due to lack of proper support in Mastodon.

wakest likes your bugs ⁂20h ago

@julian interesting to see this come together, and it looks pretty good from the outside already, but I think @sindum needs to be a bit more upfront with how much of this whole thing is being made with Claude Code and how much is being coded by humans. I personally don't care that much that they are using it, but there is a tendency in the fediverse for extreme reactions and if people feel they are being tricked by something the reaction can be overwhelming

Rasmus Sindum 18h ago

@liaizon @julian I'm not trying to hide that Claude Code is major player here. I'm fast prototyping

Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸2d ago

@sindum yes please

informapirata 2d ago

@[email protected] signed up, waiting for approval

I'm signed up!