Pleased to see people using Mobilizon instead of Facebook Events (feddit.online)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Jerry@feddit.online to c/fediverse@piefed.social

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About 2 months ago, I set up a #Mobilizon server to give people a decentralized, ActivityPub connected, alternative to #FacebookEvents, https://my-group.events/

It really pleases me to see that people are discovering it and using it to manage events instead of using big-tech owned centralized corporate controlled solutions. We need to keep making these alternatives available to people.

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[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

I got an instance up but I'm not sure about mail delivery. do you use mailgun or anything?

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 1 points 7 hours ago

I have my own mail server.

Setting up an email SMTP server for these applications has always been a PITA because many of the settings (ports, authentication type, etc.) need to be tried in different combinations before finding a combination that works. For example, I thought MOBILIZON_SMTP_SSL would work, but for some reason, it didn't, but TLS worked.

Maybe you just haven't found the right combination.

I use these settings, but you may need to do trial and error to get things right for your service.

MOBILIZON_SMTP_PORT=587 MOBILIZON_SMTP_SSL=false MOBILIZON_SMTP_TLS=if_available

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

the smtp is definitely working. my question is whether Microsoft and Google will deliver the message without mailgun etc

[-] Jerry@feddit.online 1 points 44 minutes ago

I would think so. I'm not aware of any restrictions, unless they have some maximum number of emails in a specific time period.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

Looks great indeed

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I thought mobilizon was dead, actually. I'd love to implement it but I got stuck on two or three different attempts, and I gave up. if Debian would package it, I'd run it for sure

[-] Snoopy@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

Maybe @jerry@feddit.online can help you ? 👀

[-] Snoopy@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

And thank to Framasoft, they did a good job with Peertube and Mobilizon. For now, in my area, Mobilizon isn't popular outside activist and librist circle. They mainly use demosphere

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Welcome!

Can you imagine, years ago how the internet was before? We know Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, Youtube. We knew blogger, Tumblr, Skyrock... and long before, it was the forum era as phpBB..and mail-lists.

And now with ActivityPub, we are reshaping the web, and achieving much with lots of freedom. So thank you all, and welcome 🤟😁