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Mobilizon
Mobilizon is an open source software for event planning and group management, launched in October 2020 by Framasoft to offer a free alternative to the platforms of GAFAM (Facebook, Meetup.com, EventBrite). Mobilizon gained much visibility in hacker circles relatively fast, and then spread to the wider cultural scene in Europe and more recently in the mainstream IT media. How it works The features offered by Mobilizon at the time of the beta launch in October 2019 were: * creation of accounts through an email and a password * notifications by email * creating and managing multiple identities with the same account * creating, modifying or deleting events ** from the identity you used to create the event ** with the possibility to create, keep, modify (and delete) events in draft mode ** with the possibility to manually validate (or refuse) participation requests ** that you can easily share on your networks or by email ** that you can add to your calendar * registering an event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fediverse
The Fediverse (commonly shortened to fedi) is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as Federation (information technology), federation) using a common protocol. Users of different websites can send and receive status updates, multimedia computer file, files and other data across the computer network, network. The term ''Fediverse'' is a portmanteau of ''federation'' and ''universe''. The majority of Fediverse platforms are based on free and open-source software, and create connections between servers using the ActivityPub protocol. Some software still supports older federation protocols as well, such as OStatus, the Diaspora (social network), Diaspora protocol and Zot. Diaspora* is the only actively developed software project classified under the original definition of ''Fediverse'' that does not support ActivityPub. Design While a traditional social networking service will host all its content on servers managed by the own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Framasoft
Framasoft is an education-oriented social Social network, network created in November 2001 by , Paul Lunetta, and Georges Silva. Since 2014, it has been supported by a nonprofit organization of the same name based in Lyon, France. Mainly focused on free software valorisation, it is divided into three main branches of activity based upon a collaborative model: promotion, dissemination, and development of free software, enrichment of the Free-culture movement, free culture movement, and online services. Framasoft is one of the main Francophone, French language portals to the free and Open source, open-source culture providing a space for orientation, information, news, exchange, and projects. Its community regularly brings resources and assistance to people who would like to get started with free software. They also partner with people wishing to replace their proprietary software with open-source solutions at any step of the migration from proprietary to free software, such as Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meetup
Meetup, headquartered in New York City, is a social media platform and social networking service for hosting and organizing in-person and virtual activities, gatherings, and events for people and communities of similar interests, hobbies, and professions. It was founded in 2002 by Scott Heiferman and four others. It was acquired by WeWork in November 2017, AlleyCorp in March 2020, and Bending Spoons in January 2024. The company has both free tiers and paid tiers. The service has 60 million users. Popular interests include hiking, photography, book clubs, singles meetings, soccer, tennis, yoga, and badminton. History Meetup was founded in June 2002 by Scott Heiferman and four co-founders. The idea for Meetup came from Heiferman meeting his neighbors in New York City for the first time after the September 11 attacks. Heiferman was also influenced by the book Bowling Alone, which is about the deterioration of community in American culture. Some initial funding for the venture was ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ActivityPub
ActivityPub is a Communication protocol, protocol and open standard for Decentralised system, decentralized Social networking service, social networking. It provides a Client–server model, client-to-server (C2S) API for creating and modifying content, as well as a Federation (information technology), federated Inter-server, server-to-server (S2S) protocol for delivering notifications and content to other servers. ActivityPub has become the main standard used in the fediverse, a popular network used for social networking that consists of software such as Mastodon (social network), Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube. ActivityPub is considered to be an update to the ActivityPump protocol used in pump.io, and the official W3C repository for ActivityPub is identified as a fork of ActivityPump. The creation of a new standard for Distributed social network, decentralized social networking was prompted by the complexity of OStatus, the most commonly used protocol at the time. OStatus was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Event Planning
Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development of small and/or large-scale personal or corporate events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, weddings, formal parties, concerts, or conventions. It involves studying the brand, identifying its target audience, devising the event concept, and coordinating the technical aspects before actually launching the event. The events industry now includes events of all sizes from the Olympics down to business breakfast meetings. Many industries, celebrities, charitable organizations, and interest groups hold events in order to market their label, build business relationships, raise money, or celebrate achievement. The process of planning and coordinating the event is usually referred to as event planning and which can include budgeting, scheduling, site selection, acquiring necessary permits, coordinating transportation and parking, arranging for speakers or entertainers, arranging decor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pixelfed
Pixelfed is a free and open-source image sharing social network service. The platform uses a decentralized architecture which is roughly comparable to e-mail providers, meaning user data is not stored on one central server. It uses the ActivityPub protocol, allowing users to interact with other social networks within the protocol, such as Mastodon, PeerTube, and Friendica. Pixelfed and other platforms utilizing this protocol are considered to be part of the Fediverse. Much like Mastodon, Pixelfed implements chronological timelines without content manipulation algorithms. It also aims to be privacy-focused with no third party analytics or tracking. Pixelfed optionally organizes its media by hashtags, geo-tagging and likes based on each server. It also allows audiences to be distinguished in three ways and on a post-by-post basis: followers-only, public, and unlisted. Like several other social platforms, Pixelfed allows accounts to be locked, when followers must be pre-approved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microblog
Microblogging is a form of blogging using short posts without titles known as microposts or status updates. Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links", which may be the major reason for their popularity. Some popular social networks such as X (Twitter), Threads, Tumblr, Mastodon, Bluesky and Instagram can be viewed as collections of microblogs. As with traditional blogging, users post about topics ranging from the simple, such as "what I'm doing right now", to the thematic, such as "sports cars". Commercial microblogs also exist to promote websites, services, and products and to promote collaboration within an organization. Some microblogging services offer privacy settings, which allow users to control who can read their microblogs or alternative ways of publishing entries besides the web-based interface. These may include text messaging, instant messaging, e-mail, digital audio, or digital video. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleroma (software)
Pleroma is a Free and open-source software, free and open-source microblogging social networking service. Unlike popular microblogging services such as Twitter or Weibo, Pleroma can be Self-hosting (web services), self-hosted and operated by anyone with a Server (computing), server and a Domain name, web domain, a combination commonly referred to as an instance. Instance administrators can manage their own code of conduct, terms of service, and Content moderation, content moderation policies, allowing users to have more control over the content they view as well as their experience. It was named after the religious concept of pleroma, or the totality of divine powers. The software also implements the ActivityPub protocol, which allows users to communicate and interact with content from other Pleroma instances or any server that is running software that supports ActivityPub (such as Mastodon (social network), Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, etc.), a Decentralised system, decentralize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
