Comment by carlnewton
4 days ago
I'm still working on Habitat. It's a free and open source, self-hosted social platform for local communities. The plan is for it to be federated, but that's a while off yet.
I finally cracked ansible/docker-compose provisioning on Ubuntu and plan to expand that out to support Debian also. The groundwork is there. I can finally see an official release in the distant horizon, I just need to put those quality of life features in now, like the ability to delete your own account, change your email address, notifications on comments and all that stuff.
- The idea: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net...
- A build update and plan: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
- The repository: https://github.com/carlnewton/habitat
- The project board: https://github.com/users/carlnewton/projects/2
Would you recommend your tool to use with a single instance for a local community that won't be interested in federating? I mean self hosting by one person, likely via docker, exposing to a few hundred people, not federating at all, all data should be kept within the community, not public.
If yes, do you think it's already mature enough to give it a spin?
> all data should be kept within the community, not public.
I would recommend it for everything you said except for this part. Everything posted is publicly visible by design. I'm afraid I have no intention of changing that. You're free to fork it if you want though.