Smithereen VS knob

Compare Smithereen vs knob and see what are their differences.

Smithereen

Federated, ActivityPub-compatible social network server with friends, walls, and groups. (by grishka)
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Smithereen

Posts with mentions or reviews of Smithereen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-20.
  • Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2024
    They do, or rather not old Facebook, but old VK: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

    As a bonus it's an ActivityPub enabled application, so any specific instance of it requires less work to get the network effect going. :)

  • Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
    163 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2023
    https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

    A Facebook-style ActivityPub server. Has wall posts, groups, and events.

    Not yet "ready" โ€” 1.0 would need much better moderation tools, photo albums (with tagging), discussion boards (in groups), and a client API. Direct messages are a work in progress right now.

    I myself use it daily for my participation in the fediverse.

  • VSCode config to disable annoyances โ€“ telemetry, notifications, welcome pages
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 May 2023
    Unfortunately I don't think it fits any of the projects I work on (and I don't use VSCode to begin with, never had it installed, bit I do see an IntelliJ plugin as well).

    I have one project that's a server application (https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen), but since it uses lots of custom stuff on top of the Spark micro-framework, your plugin would probably not work on it. I imagine it does expect projects to be structured idiomatically for the framework they use, at least to some degree. Spark also doesn't know anything about databases, so that is all custom as well. Oh and I also hacked it a bit with reflection to allow streaming responses.

  • Meta selling new โ€œMeta Verifiedโ€ blue badge for $12-15/month
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2023
    I'm building a fediverse project that aims to fill this exact niche. It's basically a recreation of an early-ish version of VKontakte (Russian Facebook) but federated. It's not really ready yet, and there are lots of important features missing, but I do use it daily for my primary fediverse account.

    I, too, am sick of all the existing social media companies trying their damnest to cater to the entertainment use case no one ever asked for.

    https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

  • Misskey: An Interplanetary Microblogging Platform
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2023
    I'm building an ActivityPub thing of my own: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

    It's not quite ready for mainstream use just yet, but I'm getting there. The next update will improve moderation tools by a lot. One after that will, at last, add private messages.

  • Limewire the golden age of the 90er
    2 projects | /r/Piracy | 7 Sep 2021
    Well, for one, fediverse is a thing, and I'm doing my part
  • Ask HN: Who is working on fully decentralized social networking?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2021
    I know of Smithereen[1] that is an attempt at a full fledged social network similar to VK on top of the ActivityPub vocabulary.

    [1] https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

knob

Posts with mentions or reviews of knob. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-12.
  • Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
    163 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2023
    https://twitter.com/spbnick

    The FW is quite complete, but I only have one HW implementation :D

    And then I got distracted trying to find a good way to acquire and retain the requisite deep BLE knowledge (already had some for USB), and drifted into exploring knowledge graphs as a means of processing and recording that knowledge.

    Turned out all of knowledge graph databases are heavily front-loaded with schema development (and there are no actual GUI apps for them), whereas I have no idea what the schema will be, and would like to experiment with unconstrained data first. So I'm building a Python tool/library to allow free-form knowledge graph creation and schema inference, with data/schema export to some knowledge graph databases (like TypeDB or Stardog). I got to figuring out graph-building operators and expressions so far, and am making them work (the code probably doesn't make much sense):

    https://github.com/spbnick/knob

    An STM32-based business-card synth with touch-sensitive back-lighted keys. Got all the parts of the hardware more-or-less prototyped and working, but PCB layout difficulty (and my perfectionism) killed my interest for now:

    https://twitter.com/spbnick/status/1340348572068360198

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