mobilizon VS Misskey

David Revoy's involvement in FOSS is almost a blessing. He has drawn this comic, Pepper and Carrot, using free software like Krita. But that's only the surface level of his contribution to FOSS.

He has pioneered a collaborative approach to comic translation in an industry where most publishers respond to volunteer translators with legal threats. (See [1] for the dominant sentiment among conventional comic publishers.)

Dozens of FOSS projects owe wonderful illustrations and mascots to David Revoy, including all of the initiatives by Framasoft (a French association focusing on software freedom). They are characters for communities to rally around, and can make these charitable initiatives and software projects feel more approachable to non-technical people. The open source app Mobilizon has cute cartoon foxes for instance[2], which you can even have as your online profile picture[3]!

Add to that a myriad of educational videos and blog posts about both art in general and doing art with open source software and you can perhaps see how passionate David Revoy is. Well, so concludes my little accolade to him on HN! I wish him the best of luck with his new comic.

[1]: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2022/03/199_314538....

[2]: https://joinmobilizon.org/

[3]: https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2020_mobilizon-gene...

It seems like Mobilizon is trying to be only events (and then connect to other stuff with ActivityPub), and Bonpfire is more a social network + events (which is what you are looking for?). I have no idea how mature they are/where they have apps, though.

on Misskey: https://github.com/misskey-dev/misskey/issues/9504

There is a lot of resistance to the idea. The browser UX for registering protocols is not particularly intuitive. The protocol should not be named after Mastodon because they are defensive of their trademark, and it wouldn't be accurate since the user identifier could be followed from any ActivityPub compatible software.

If you look at the newer comments on the Mastodon github thread I posted you can see web+ap:// recommended, or apub://

I think there just needs to be enough collective will to make this happen. Likely another project will need to take the lead because Mastodon team has decided the browser UX is too much of a barrier. Maybe glitch-soc can do a proof of concept.