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Egalu is me and a couple other peoples idea conceived in a discord movie night. Egalu is going to be built on the activitypub protocol. It is meant to be an FOSS version of facebook, without data selling, transphobes, dickheads, and bot moderation. We expect the first version of this within 3 months (likely not this long, just ensuring we don't get anyones hopes up with something like 3 days for the 1st version)
If you want to join this project to help in some way, you can join the discord server here:
https://discord.gg/SCAZWUdd

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[-] Blaze@discuss.online 25 points 1 year ago

Hello,

Sounds promising, but be ready to get criticised for choosing Discord

[-] density@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

It's a bit weird to only be on discord don't you think?

do they just post their code in a chat or something?

[-] Blaze@discuss.online 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, right, you might expect a repo link indeed

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

As I said, we are not that far around yet.

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You still can publish a repo of an unfinished project.

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only on discord for now. You are welcome to set up a bridge between discord and another platform.

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, ready.

[-] spiderman@ani.social 14 points 1 year ago

How different it will be from friendica?

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, had no clue what friendica is.

another fedjverse faceboom alternative. maybe check it out might give you slme ideas, idk

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Had a look, seems like facebook--ish UI but 10 years ago. Correct?

[-] informapirata@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Had a look, seems like facebook–ish UI but 10 years ago. Correct?

No, that's not correct at all! 🤦🤦🤦

Friendica is the most beautiful and powerful social media software in the Fediverse: it can make you write long, formatted posts with in-line images, with title or without title, it can publish scheduled posts, it can make you follow websites with RSS feeds , Diaspora and GNU Social profiles, it has a connector for Bluesky and TumbIr, it can manage circles like Google+, it can manage public ActivityPub groups (basically like Lemmy communities) but also private ones, it manages activitypub events like those of Mobilizon and Gancio.

The development is continuous and always cutting edge and the developers are pretty smart!

Unfortunately it has two problems that compromise its success:

  • the lack of an iOS app
  • a painful web 1.1 interface reminiscent of the original Facebook, but unfortunately the development staff no longer has any professional graphics. In reality it would be enough to adapt the soapbox interface (not everyone knows that it is possible to manage a friendica account through the soapbox interface!), but this is a bit of a sore point...

If you want to undertake the development of new Fediverse software, I recommend you take a look at Friendica and, if possible, also Misskey, Bonfire and Kbin; however in the Fediverse it is also important to try to reinvent the wheel, because the diversity of ideas is the true richness of the Fediverse

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Friendica is the most beautiful and powerful social media software in the Fediverse: it can make you write long, formatted posts with in-line images, with title or without title, it can publish scheduled posts, it can make you follow websites with RSS feeds , Diaspora and GNU Social profiles, it has a connector for Bluesky and TumbIr, it can manage circles like Google+, it can manage public ActivityPub groups (basically like Lemmy communities) but also private ones, it manages activitypub events like those of Mobilizon and Gancio. I will take a bigger look at it now.

[-] informapirata@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I will take a bigger look at it now

Very good. I'm glad I was able to spark your curiosity! 😅 Sometimes, good ideas can hide even behind the worst interfaces and the most obsolete technologies... 😁

I have never used it, I am.not a facebook kinda person but it might help you with inspiration

[-] souperk@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Got anything to share? source/screenshots/roadmap/feature-set/mock-ups

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Roadmap is being worked on, mock ups being drawn up tommorow, feature set still ebing discussed and finalised but likely to include: Nested comments Various emojii responses to comments and posts Groups Posting to own profile Sharing Karma type system?

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 4 points 1 year ago

Got any screenshot to share here? I'm curious

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Screenshots are not available yet,appologies. Not that far to take full screenshots.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 2 points 1 year ago

Ahh, no worries. Keep it up!

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