Project Meta
Start Year: 2024
“Let’s ditch Facebook and build a TangoVerse in the #Freeweb, #indieweb or #fediverse”.
What is possible? What would it take?
Some TangoVerse scenarios from the “event feature” perspective
A few more thoughts for project TangoVerse: As detailed in What makes Facebook so useful?, one key feature for an alternative to Facebook for the tango community are events, both from the organizing and marketing side, but also from the participating side, especially for events that attract traveling dancers. I think local milongas are often…
An alternative to facebook?
A few years ago (2015-ish) I started a Facebook group called “An Alternative to Facebook for the Tango Community”. It was meant to attract interested community members to explore what is out there and to contain ideas and evaluations of possible options. Facebook back then was quite good and still had graph search, and wasn’t…
What makes Facebook so useful?
The tango network has been using Facebook for more than a decade, and many are using Facebook predominantly for their tango life, which doesn’t just include the dance as an activity, but also a great way to make friends, participate in community, or travel. Tango has been proven over and over again that it becomes…
Fediverse and events coming from WordPress
Today, I found out about a new project that wants to bring events management through WordPress into the Fediverse (@blog). Which, if it works, would be amazing, especially because there are so many great event plugins for WordPress already… for example, RNT – Rhein-Neckar-Tango uses the excellent The Event Calendar plugin. The team is collaborating…
Getting our hands dirty
Here are the current test setups for the “An alternative to facebook?” that I have set up: https://tango-travels.mn.co – based on Mighty Networks https://humhub.dekay.org https://hubzilla.dekay.org https://friendica.dekay.org