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261 points david927 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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carlnewton ◴[] No.43156653[source]
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 recently spoke with a Lemmy developer who gave me some advice on making it easy for anyone to host. I was struggling with the mess of supporting both docker and VM hosting. He told me that Lemmy uses ansible provisioning to install docker compose on the target VM so that the effort can be focused on docker support, so that's what I've been homing in on for the last few weeks.

- 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

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1. childintime ◴[] No.43188274[source]
Ambitious!

Maybe add a map to show nearby users (that accept to chat under certain criteria)?