the streams repository

[viviridian]

so this sounds cool: streams: Consent based public domain federated communications server. Provides a feature rich ActivityPub and Nomad communication node.
found via forte: Nomadic fediverse server's history via vyr's post. (i have not looked into how much forte has modified the streams repo.)

more info about streams, including feature list

[lifning]

very interesting! the blurb on the info site about so much of it being consent-first and with actual thought-out moderation tooling sounds promising (in a "damn, what the fuck are they even doing over in mastodon land" sort of way)

[snow]

Oh, that's super neat. The focus on consent is what made me look at diaspora*, but the experience there was lacking, to say the least. I'd be interested to see how streams looks in action.

[viviridian]

some more history

https://joinfediverse.wiki/(streams)
https://joinfediverse.wiki/The_Zotlabs_projects

Mike Macgirvin explained later on that having five projects in parallel at various, albeit only slightly different levels of technological advancement and stability, all with different names and logos, but all with largely the same set of features, was deliberate and intended to confuse people with as many names as possible and hang a lampshade on brand worship. For the same reason, their common successor was deliberately left without a name and a brand identity. "Streams" is only the name for its code repository which required a name. His own instance runs (streams), but it's still branded Zap which it was cross-graded from.

i guess the fact i've never heard of this is by design, actually. huh.