FediHood is a social network built around the place where you live. You choose a city and the topics you care about, then read what neighbours are saying and join in.
It stays a normal fediverse app. Your posts can reach Mastodon, PixelFed, Misskey and the rest, and posts from those servers reach you too.
Source code: https://git.holos.social/tom79/FediHood
There’s only one instance so far: https://fedihood.social/
If new instances are created, they should show up here: https://fedihood.fediverse.observer/list
Does it federate with regular Mastodon instances?
Yes, but there’s no ability to search for users yet. So I guess you have to tag them or message them before you can follow them, or maybe if they follow you first
Pretty neat. There’s one post in the same city. Another one about 150 km away, and third one about 350 km away. I really expected everyone to be like at least 3 Mm away from me.
Nice use of Mm bro
Well, there are 5 posts in my state in germany, but the idea is cool.
Seems like it would be really hard for it to hit critical mass of users but I really like the premise of the platform, I’ll have to make an account
Thanks for posting it! ☺️
I joined last week and I’m already seeing more local people like from neighbouring towns and I’m not in a huge city or anything
Thats sick as fuck, super excited to hear that!
I think if they focus on interop with other platforms, like using hashtags for regional posts, it could work
Hmm, I was hoping the source-code would give some disclosure on LLM use, but it is just a single commit and doesn’t mention LLM use. Call me jaded, but that feels a bit like covering your tracks to avoid that topic being raised.
I checked as well, but the author has plenty older projects(fedilab among them) to check (I didn’t go as far, but I’d be surprised they’d actively cover tracks when they have over active repos).
Fedilab is clean but their latest project, holos, is ai-ridden. As nice as fedihood sounds the history does make me hesitant to follow it
they’re also adding support for events:
#FediHood now supports #ActivityPub events, which means it is compatible with software such as #Mobilizon. You can create and receive events in the area you selected.
Joining and leaving events is not implemented yet.
Neat idea, kinda like Nextdoor but not full of Facebook moms
It says it has Mastodon integration, but what about lemmy?
I tried @tagging a community and it didn’t work
any screenshots of what it looks like when signed in?
thanks so much
sounds very interesting! i am moving to a new city next month so i would love finding some localised stuff more easily :D
This seems unreasonable to me:
Only one browser at a time holds the keys decrypting new messages, moving needs a fresh backup from the active browser.
Messages sent after the backup was taken stay unreadable on this browser.
I don’t think an encrypted message feature is necessary for this kind of a web app. If people want to send encrypted messages, they can just switch to a different service for that. Like you get them to know on fedihood, exchange matrix handles or phone numbers or whatever, and then you can use a different service for private communication.
Makes e2ee much easier that way.
I feel like it should still work if making a backup didn’t clear a browser, and restoring to a second browser should let both work.
So it’s holos.social on a server? Did I get that right?
That’s really promising, I have to test this
Cool - I joined
this sounds neat!
