I've been working on resurrecting a 20-year-old social media concept and it only just dawned on me that the vast majority of people on the internet today, even those older than me, will have never seen this concept and so it will be brand new to them
@joepie91 Is it the persistent one way public message? :)
(Probably not. I don't think anyone would want to resurrect that.)
@whreq Nah, it's the community-centric model used by Clubs (the Het Net thing) and a couple of other similar services in different countries
@bumblebeedc @joepie91 @whreq I do still have my @hetnet.nl mail address, recently tested if mail still arrived and it did
@joepie91 do tell?
(I was already on fido net back in the day, which kinda resembled a federated social network)
@StroomAfwaarts Clubs!
@joepie91 okay, that one I never heard of ☺️
@joepie91 interesting though!
An activity pub based federated social network?
@StroomAfwaarts I don't intend for it to federate - it doesn't make much sense for a community-centric thing, and would introduce a lot of problems: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/113764060621165923
@StroomAfwaarts Federation as a model mostly just makes sense for identity-centric systems (which is what ~all popular social media networks right now are) because people interact with a wide variety of different people across different communities from the same account, but when your fundamental 'social unit' is a 'community' and there's no individual profiles to speak of, it's much more practical to have the whole community in one place, and just make it easy to move and/or self-host.
@StroomAfwaarts (And this is the case for Clubs, and therefore also the case for the project I am working on - it's about communities rather than individuals)
@joepie91 true!
Instead of the neighbourhood whatsapp group it would make more sense to me to have a local chat server in the community center, for example.
@joepie91 I can find very little info on it, it was also excluded from the Wayback Machine because they redirected their crawler to an unsupported browser error page 😑
How is it different from a forum?
@eloy A forum was one of the functionalities offered, but there were also other sections and features, ranging from news/pictures to a chatroom. So you often got something that was kind of inbetween a personal website and a forum.
Probably the closest analogy would be those decked-out forum installs with a 'lobby' or 'portal' with all sorts of stuff other than just forum threads. Except a lot simpler to interact with.
@joepie91
This reminds me of my ongoing fantasy of having a thing which is a bit facebook-ish, but without tracking and algorithms and other bad stuff, where community groups could put their events and have chat groups and things. I hate that all the local eco groups where I am are heavily Facebook based 😭
@eloy
@joepie91 sounds exciting