Post #713299

2026-03-22 00:45 UTC

Meet Fedibook! The idea came from thinking about what it actually takes to get regular users onto the fediverse. Mastodon is great (i love it), but the follow-based model feels unfamiliar to some. Friends and Groups though — that&#39;s something everyone already understands. So Fedibook is a fediverse platform built around exactly that, using ActivityPub. Think federated address book meets social network, with the kind of social graph people are already used to. Current status: - Friend requests across servers working - News feed working, with visibility levels: public, friends-only, or local server only Hoping to open up for early testing and feedback soon. Open source of course. #fediverse #activitypub #fedibook #danmarkskifter

Replies (16)

@andypiper__dup_2941@macaw.social 2026-03-22 18:40

@sindum@mstdn.dk looks cool, interested to try this out!

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@michael@westergaard.social 2026-03-22 09:32

What does it do that Friendica or Hubzilla don’t? Seems to me the effort might be better spent on one of the existing projects with very similar goals instead of reinventing them.

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@kristianrb@friendica.dk 2026-03-22 13:02

@sindum signed up - spændt på at udforske det! 😀 ( jeg er med på at det er på et tidlig stadie )

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@julian@activitypub.space 2026-03-22 00:52

@sindum@mstdn.dk cool project, welcome to the fediverse. How are your groups federated? Do they follow FEP 1b12?

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@madsenandersc@social.vivaldi.net 2026-03-22 01:03

@sindum Well, you know the drill - release early, release often. It's been 18 minutes - what are we waiting for? :)

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@arildsen@mastodon.green 2026-03-22 07:25

@sindum how similar to, or different from, Friendica is it?

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@fediverseconnection@social.vivaldi.net 2026-03-22 07:35

@sindum Something like a lightweight Hubzilla, Friendica or Diaspora?

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@jens@toots.nu 2026-03-22 08:27

@sindum What will be the demands to run this? It looks much cleaner than Friendica.

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@leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se 2026-03-22 08:32

@sindum i think you're on to something here. Looking forward to trying it out. 👍 It would be amazing if the group feature turns out to work well. Here in Sweden that's probably the main "lock-in" fb has on the users. You miss out on what's happening in your neighbourhood, town, summer vacation village, special interest community etc. Even political parties organise local and national groups through fb.

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@leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se 2026-03-22 08:38

@sindum signed up, waiting for approval 😁

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@TorbenI@mastodon.social 2026-03-22 09:00

@sindum Spændende! Signed op

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@Enea90@mastodon.social 2026-03-22 10:30

@sindum To me, that looks interesting. The Friendica instance I was in went down, so I will consider joining.

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@TheLastOfHisName@beige.party 2026-03-22 17:46

@sindum I'm looking forward to your progress! Thank you for all the work thus far!

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@leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se 2026-03-22 19:02

@sindum from what I've seen so far today, this is a great idea. And great execution so far. You should put up a ko-fi and (eventually when you find the time) create governance around this project. It seems really really good. Similar to, but not at all like Friendica. Never managed to make Friendica work well, but this seems very promising. (Not their fault, probably too much legacy stuff in the project)

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@informapirata@activitypub.space 2026-03-23 13:42

@sindum@mstdn.dk signed up, waiting for approval I'm signed up!

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@chuckthenerd@mastodon.social 2026-03-26 11:16

@sindum

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