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Carl Newton

@ carlnewton @feddit.uk

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Web Developer

  • smolfedi - A lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse client written in PHP by Adele at Codeberg

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  • Listen, I'm going to shamelessly self promote my project all I can! Also PHP, also Symfony: Habitat is a platform for local communities. I don't think PHP gets enough love! It's incredibly versatile and is actually very fast in recent years.

  • How I Used Habitat To Organise an Easter Egg Hunt for My Local Town

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  • Thanks! I think I started sending flyers out about two weeks before. Unfortunately I think it was my wife posting an image of the flyers on Facebook that got most of the attention. I didn't coordinate with my local council. I feared they'd decline if I had asked them so I figured I'd rather ask for forgiveness rather than permission. We have some local things that people put up in this small town that would probably allow me to get away with it, such as "knitting Nana's" which is essentially crochet designs on top of postboxes and posts and stuff. So people do sometimes leave things about and it seems that everyone's happy with it. I was preempting some kind of resistance with the "isn't this littering?" question, in which I stated that all Easter eggs will be collected afterwards, and when I do, I'll take a black bag around with me to pick up any rubbish I find along the way, so those with the littering concern would hopefully see the net good in what I've done. Thankfully none of that resistance has come up. Perhaps if it was more popular I might have had a difficult conversation.

  • Why you should stop unnecessarily making image posts on the fediverse

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  • I feel that there's something you've implied in there that isn't explicit.

    For instance:

    It makes high-quality posts look the same as low-quality ones.

    How does it do that?

    that format is not good since lots of people will start to automatically block them

    Why would they do that?

    You're really going to have to dumb it down for me, and I might not be alone given the number of down votes this post, and your comments get when you mention it.

    I've read your comments, I've read the post, and I honestly still don't understand the issue.

  • Why you should stop unnecessarily making image posts on the fediverse

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  • Mate! It was you who commented something to this effect on my post a while back! I'm trying to understand what you mean, I really am, but it's not going in. Could you humour me, and explain to me what it is about an image accompanying a text post that makes it bad? Is it that so very often when an image accompanies an article you've seen so many instances of it being low quality content that you're conditioned to assume the same even when it isn't the case?

  • Habitat @feddit.uk
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Work in progress: Dark mode

  • Habitat @feddit.uk
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Vote for Habitat to become available on PikaPods

    feedback.pikapods.com /posts/1048/habitat-a-platform-for-local-communities

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Hey @sl007@digitalcourage.social. Thanks for the message. I couldn't find any details about Menschys or Fedigeo, I'd love to know more about what you're doing. But just to clarify, I'm not planning to use ActivityPub in Habitat. I've realised recently that using the term "Fediverse" -- and perhaps posting to this Fediverse community has caused some confusion. Additionally, before I looked further into what ActivityPub was, I thought I was going to use it. I was under the impression that any decentralised system would count as "a part the fediverse". Habitat will certainly be federated, but it's possible that it will only be a Fediverse platform as much as email (for example) is a Fediverse platform. I don't plan to write any functionality that will implicitly allow non-Habitat applications communicate with it. I hope that clears things up. My apologies for the confusion, it seems I've confused a lot of people over this and it wasn't my intention.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Yeah I'll be making some changes to it at some point.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Hey, thanks again. Just to let you know, the map on the about page is in the latest release 1.1.0.

  • Habitat @feddit.uk
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Habitat 1.1.0 released

    github.com /carlnewton/habitat/discussions/100
  • Habitat @feddit.uk
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Finally got a domain for Habitat!

    gethabitat.org

  • Support - How to run Habitat bhind my own Caddy instance?

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  • Hello, I'm sorry -- I missed this! I'm new to hosting a lemmy community -- and everything else that comes with maintaining an open source project that's in use to be honest!

    From what you've described, it sounds like you can just remove the ports so long as your caddy container is in the same network as the habitat instance. As your caddy container is handling ssl, you could just pass traffic locally via http I think.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Habitat @feddit.uk
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Habitat will never "take off"

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • What features are you thinking? To put a price on a post/mark as sold etc?

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Yes, this is a good point! I don't necessarily want to slow one Habitat down when waiting for the response of another. It could lock up other requests. If it's possible to send the user the url to retrieve posts with frontend javascript, that may definitely be worth looking into. It sounds like an XSS minefield though, but it could very well be the way to go.

    Thanks for this.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Activity Pub doesn't take advantage of the unique solution we have by knowing the user's location and the location of instances. In a way, it seems overkill for what we want. Additionally, I don't necessarily want other software communicating with Habitat. You never know, I might change my mind as I delve into it. I changed my mind on a great number of things as I came to develop them for phase 1. I accept that there are things about existing protocols that I don't fully understand.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Ah I see. No, no specialised type of post for events, date based information, invite systems, or anything like that. I can see why that would be good though so I'll give it some thought.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • :D This is great news for everyone except for the creature.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Thank you!

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Imagine this - you're signed up to your local instance in -- Perth is it? You go for a walk and find a beautiful old building, and want to know more about it. You open up your local Perth instance of Habitat, which you know about because you live in Perth and managed to find that instance, and click the Nearby feed, and the closest discussion to your location is about this very building. This functionality exists in Habitat right now.

    Now imagine that you're on holiday to Oxford in the UK -- I can't imagine why you'd choose our clouds over your sun, but it might be something to do with the old buildings here. You see an interesting old building, and want to know more about it, and open up your Perth Habitat instance, click the nearby feed. Your Perth instance will identify the closest Habitat instance to your location -- it just so happens to have found one called Habitat:Oxford. Your Perth Habitat instance will show you results from the Oxford Habitat instance by proximity. This is why I want to federate instances, so that you don't even have to worry about which instances have the posts relevant to your location, it's all handled by the network.

  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • To be clear, there is no functionality that federates Habitat instances yet. This work is still to be done. ActivityPub is a protocol for decentralised networks. Though I will not be using ActivityPub, I will build functionality that will allow for a decentralised network of Habitat instances communicating data to each other. This will be federated by definition, but it will not communicate with Lemmy/Mastodon or anything else that uses ActivityPub.

  • Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place?

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  • Habitat @feddit.uk
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place?

    carlnewton.github.io /posts/location-based-social-network/
  • Habitat @feddit.uk
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    The first instance of Habitat

    www.irthlingborough.net
  • Habitat @feddit.uk
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Someone asked for a Lemmy Community, so here it is!

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    I'm Building Habitat

    carlnewton.github.io /posts/building-habitat/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    I'm Building Habitat

    carlnewton.github.io /posts/building-habitat/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place?

    carlnewton.github.io /posts/location-based-social-network/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Carl Newton @feddit.uk

    Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place?

    carlnewton.github.io /posts/location-based-social-network/