Another fediverse newbie mucking about. Since joining I've been digging in and learning as I go, trying to determine what best suits how I'd like to interface everything. I am not, however, super well versed in all the ins and outs of this system yet. I'm not the most tech savvy person to be honest.
I've enjoyed this kbin instance so far. No complaints considering how new it is and how strained it got under the new user load. Grateful for the work that's been put in to keep things whirring. If everything keeps going the way it has I'll be sticking around. Though I have considered signing up to a different platform as well to use for more personal blogging, or interaction with closer friends and associates. I think I'm leaning toward Hubzilla for this.
The sorting tools used to filter your incoming feed as well as group contact sorting to control who sees what from what I'd be posting seems like it'd get me a long way toward how I envision wanting to use a macroblogger. There's a whole host of features I'd probably never use besides. The account mirror and syncing feature seems pretty clutch.
If this ability to compartmentalize everything works the way I think I'm understanding it, there's less a reason to even create multiple profiles across different platforms even if the intended usage between a link aggregate/subforum platform like kbin and a macroblogging platform are different. I guess you'd need a profile to moderate a magazine/community on a certain instance, but I'm not seeing much beyond that.
I know it doesn't operate entirely (primarily even?) on the ActivityPub protocol, but it sounds like it's integrated with with all the platforms operating on ActivityPub./?
Has anybody here tried it out? Are there inherent downsides? Anything I'm not considering that I ought to be? Any type of critical failure or a specific reason Hubzilla hasn't taken off despite offering what looks to be a pretty elaborate feature set?
I tried it a few years ago. It's a much more Facebook-like experience. Your posts don't have a character limit, and if your instance has ActivityPub support turned on, are viewable by followers on the fediverse. It has
Groupsupport, both natively hosted on hubzilla and those on other AP software. It also has support forEvents, though I don't know if those are specific to hubzilla or federate over AP.Also, the nomadic identity and permission system are really cool and way better than any solution on other AP software. You can use your hubzilla identity to login to other hubzilla instances, but each user has granular control over permissions so they can determine who is allowed to see various parts of their profile.
It also has a plugin system so there are a ton of other features not available on any other AP software.
Your post bolsters what I've taken away from the looking I've done so far. The feature set seems robust, to the point it's recognizably intended to be the place to set up shop for a central experience amongst different platforms; hence the name I guess. That's probably according to taste though as well. I never had a problem with the type of UX Facebook offered, but I got far away from all that long ago for all the obvious reasons.
I didn't know that creating an account allows for login access onto different instances, but I guess that makes sense and is probably required in order to setup your mirrored/synced account. I may be twisting that around into a way it doesn't actually work, but I'll figure it out. I think I'm going to set up an account between tonight and tomorrow.
I saw that plugins were available. Curious to see how broad and varied the options are for these. I have to imagine there's some good stuff developed that I'll be pleasantly surprised to find.
Thanks for the input!