Did you know (few people do) that there is a Federated, decentralized, ethical alternative to #FacebookEvents and #Meetup for event-planning and group-management? Any alternative to Facebook is great, right?
It's called #Mobilizon. It's developed by the French non-profit organization Framasoft, which is the same group behind #Peertube.
Why Mobilizon stands out:
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It's Federated and Decentralized: It's made up of a network of independent websites that communicate with each other via ActivityPub, just like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PieFed, Peertube, etc.
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There are no Ads or trackers.
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Each instance is volunteer run.
It federates will ActivityPub applications, like Mastodon!
- You can follow Groups from mastodon via the group handle, like, @devon_football@my-group.events
- Events show in your Mastodon timeline
- If you reply to or comment in Mastodon, for example, about a Mobilizon event, your comment synchronizes back to the event page (and vice versa), bridging the conversation across both platforms.
- You don't need a separate account on a Mobilizon server just to keep tabs on a community's schedule.
If interested in exploring Mobilizon, in addition to running this Mastodon server, and other decentralized applications, I run the Mobilizon server, https://my-group.events
