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 do tell?
(I was already on fido net back in the day, which kinda resembled a federated social network)
@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.
@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.
@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)