<story><title>MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized​ Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud</title><url>https://mediagoblin.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>I just had a brief look at Mastodon, and it appears to have the same humongous flaw that Diaspora has. No events management.&lt;p&gt;What the hell? That is &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; main feature required in a social network, after the ability to see each others comments. People want to organise their lives using the graph that their social network provides.&lt;p&gt;Is anyone aware of a distributed or federated open source social network which provides event management functionality? I would love to hear about it if you have... Gallery functionality would come in handy too.</text></item><item><author>rglullis</author><text>Curious to see this here, given that I&amp;#x27;ve been trying to set up some of these &amp;quot;decentralized services&amp;quot; at my home servers and figuring out if it is really possible to replace the common mainstream services.&lt;p&gt;So far, I installed my own Matrix server (synapse), my own XMPP (ejabberd), yesterday I got semi-happy with my mastodon setup, and now I was just finishing some tests with ownCloud to see if I could replace Dropbox.&lt;p&gt;MediaGoblin is on my list of services to setup. I ran a basic deployment and checked some other instances of it before, but I didn&amp;#x27;t put it higher on my priority list because to me it looks like it focus too much on being a &amp;quot;community-driven website&amp;quot; instead of providing a solid service as a media-hosting&amp;#x2F;publishing&amp;#x2F;catalog system.&lt;p&gt;To me it looks like they are shooting for the wrong level of &amp;quot;decentralization granularity&amp;quot;. Each instance of these services are aiming for a &amp;quot;community&amp;quot;, and think that the people use the mainstream tools because they don&amp;#x27;t want to&amp;#x2F;won&amp;#x27;t manage the server.&lt;p&gt;The point they seem to miss is that this only creates another type of top-down organization. It would be MUCH easier for them to focus on a &amp;quot;single-user&amp;quot; system, and start from the point that the communication will work when the applications talk with each other.&lt;p&gt;To me this is why Diaspora failed, and Wordpress is still such a big part of the internet.&lt;p&gt;Another thing I noticed: the projects that really focused on separating client from server produced much better results in terms of UI&amp;#x2F;UX. With Matrix, I just had to setup the server, and then I could have the riot app just point to my instance. If by any chance a better client comes around, my instance would be untouched.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeena</author><text>I have events on my website &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jeena.net&amp;#x2F;events&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;jeena.net&amp;#x2F;events&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; plain HTML marked up with h-event &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;microformats.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;h-event&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;microformats.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;h-event&lt;/a&gt; and I can receive RSVPs with help of &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3.org&amp;#x2F;TR&amp;#x2F;webmention&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3.org&amp;#x2F;TR&amp;#x2F;webmention&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was fairly easy to implement, the only problem is that not many of the people I know have software which lets them RSVP too, therefor I also connected it to Facebook.</text></comment>
<story><title>MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized​ Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud</title><url>https://mediagoblin.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>I just had a brief look at Mastodon, and it appears to have the same humongous flaw that Diaspora has. No events management.&lt;p&gt;What the hell? That is &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; main feature required in a social network, after the ability to see each others comments. People want to organise their lives using the graph that their social network provides.&lt;p&gt;Is anyone aware of a distributed or federated open source social network which provides event management functionality? I would love to hear about it if you have... Gallery functionality would come in handy too.</text></item><item><author>rglullis</author><text>Curious to see this here, given that I&amp;#x27;ve been trying to set up some of these &amp;quot;decentralized services&amp;quot; at my home servers and figuring out if it is really possible to replace the common mainstream services.&lt;p&gt;So far, I installed my own Matrix server (synapse), my own XMPP (ejabberd), yesterday I got semi-happy with my mastodon setup, and now I was just finishing some tests with ownCloud to see if I could replace Dropbox.&lt;p&gt;MediaGoblin is on my list of services to setup. I ran a basic deployment and checked some other instances of it before, but I didn&amp;#x27;t put it higher on my priority list because to me it looks like it focus too much on being a &amp;quot;community-driven website&amp;quot; instead of providing a solid service as a media-hosting&amp;#x2F;publishing&amp;#x2F;catalog system.&lt;p&gt;To me it looks like they are shooting for the wrong level of &amp;quot;decentralization granularity&amp;quot;. Each instance of these services are aiming for a &amp;quot;community&amp;quot;, and think that the people use the mainstream tools because they don&amp;#x27;t want to&amp;#x2F;won&amp;#x27;t manage the server.&lt;p&gt;The point they seem to miss is that this only creates another type of top-down organization. It would be MUCH easier for them to focus on a &amp;quot;single-user&amp;quot; system, and start from the point that the communication will work when the applications talk with each other.&lt;p&gt;To me this is why Diaspora failed, and Wordpress is still such a big part of the internet.&lt;p&gt;Another thing I noticed: the projects that really focused on separating client from server produced much better results in terms of UI&amp;#x2F;UX. With Matrix, I just had to setup the server, and then I could have the riot app just point to my instance. If by any chance a better client comes around, my instance would be untouched.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mallaidh</author><text>I haven&amp;#x27;t heard of `events management&amp;#x27; as a core feature of social media and Mastodon gets alone just fine without it. I&amp;#x27;m assuming that you&amp;#x27;re referring to facebook-style timelines for life events, etc.?</text></comment>