This is my first go at using Hubzilla - I was investigating whether it would work for a small community site I want to rebuid
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So, years ago, I ran a community forum site for an extended group of about 600 friends and acquaintances. It was an eclectic group of self described freaks, geeks, goths, nerds, renn rats, medieval reenactors, gamers, etc. The members knew each other from the Goth/Industrial scenes up and down the East coast, from Pennsic War, Renn faires (primarily also along the East Coast) and conventions such as Philcon, Balticon, Evecon, Chiller Theater, Disclaive, and so on.
With the rise of Facebook, that community migrated over and I pulled the plug in 2010. There have been times when several of us felt that FB was becoming too toxic or greedy and considered resurrecting that community, but with the 2024 elections and the headlong plunge toward complicity from Zuckerberg, I've received more and more requests to consider resurrecting that community
The big issue is that Facebook is super "sticky" - it is incredibly low friction for people to use. Meet someone new? "oh are you on Facebook? ok lets connect" and especially when creating events/parties etc and inviting friends and keeping that list to folks you actually know in person (as opposed to the more open "digital town square" of Twitter and its replacements (Bluesky and Mastodon etc).
Anyway, I've tried Friendica - it feels like a FB profile but its missing a lot and I was wondering if a site with Hubzilla would maybe give the community we want - I'm still new ish to the fediverse, and it seems like a combination of Friendica and Hubzilla and maybe lemmy and pixelfed could do the trick - dunno.
So here I am trying out a first post just to see what the tool is like
I see it's using [b]bbcode[ /b]and not
markdown - I was hoping for markdown but that's not a dealbreaker
