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Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by carlnewton@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been working on Habitat for the past two years. It all stemmed from this idea that I posted in April 2024.

Habitat is a free open-source, self hosted social platform for local communities. It is aimed at fostering local community discussions and discovery of areas of interest. This is why it is built primarily around location. A Habitat instance centers on a specific area, and the local community can make generic posts about that area, or they can make posts about specific locations in that area. More about what I've been building and the future plans here.

Features

Habitat specification of location and size - enabling posts related to the local area
Home feed - Displays the most recent posts
Nearby feed - Displays posts sorted by proximity to the user
Create posts - Upload photos, set locations, comments
Categories - Location rules
Amazon S3 image storage option
Personalisation - Overrides Habitat defaults per user: kms/miles, hidden categories
Moderation tools - User, post, comment moderation, block email addresses
Announcements - Scheduled announcements
Public moderation log - Keep moderator actions visible for 30 days

If you're interest in this at all, please give it a spin and let me know how you get on. I'll keep an eye here on Lemmy, but you can also post to the Habitat discussion board on GitHub.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I don't have a use case OP, but the project looks great. Seems like it would be an obvious NextDoor replacement.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

That looks neat! Thanks for posting it!

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Looks cool! I'd love to see local buynothing groups have a Fediverse alternative.

Out of curiosity, is there any standard or common format around location data for Fediverse platforms?

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Is this next-door for non boomers?

Sadly it will never take off but cool idea.

[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Next Lemmy update is going to have an option to block image posts (to remove low quality meme threads). People should stop turning text posts into image posts to avoid being blocked. I also find these hybrid posts quite annoying. You're making your post look like something it's not.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl -2 points 1 month ago

Preach!

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