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No need to trust Musk. We go federated with Nextcloud Social! (nextcloud.com)
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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's pretty cool. Does this mean that if I have my own Nextcloud server, that I'll have my own fedi ID ready to go? Will it be an 'app' within Nextcloud? It's own instance?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago

Yes an app, has been available for years: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/social

[–] altair222 4 points 2 years ago

I wish to know this too!

[–] altair222 3 points 2 years ago

Seems like it has stopped being supported

[–] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You already have a Fedi id. It's @electric_nan . Lemmy is part of the Fediverse.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So this nextcloud feature will just be a client? Not a server? Sorry if I'm missing something. I do have trouble sometimes grokking the implicatiins of the fediverse.

[–] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@electric_nan

It's gonna be a server, and lemmy is also a server, both are servers 💁🏻‍♀️

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

So myserver.com/nextcloud is gonna be an activitypub instance, and I can make a user on it like @electric_nan2@myserver.com That's what I'm asking.

[–] remington 5 points 2 years ago

This is incredibly good news for the 'Fediverse'!

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

always great to have more fediverse options!

[–] GadgeteerZA 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes it federated using ActivityPub protocol. It was only in alpha release though when I last used it, and it broke with one of the upgrades. I'm wondering if it has matured yet to a V1 and if others are finding it stable now?

[–] Canard@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

The article mentions it will be better later this year:

Nextcloud Social is available as an alpha version for earlier releases, with an update to Hub 3 coming soon. The team at Nextcloud is working with the community to add new features and give users a way out of the Big Tech sandbox. We will make the updated Nextcloud Social a default part of Nextcloud later this year.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ugh, that has been available for years and was so far in a very sorry state. Maybe they want to give it a major overhaul for NC 26, but I am not holding my breath.

[–] Canard@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

They did an overhaul specifically because of Musk according to their blog:

That is why we began working on Nextcloud Social, to make sure there would be a credible alternative by the time the deal closed.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/no-need-to-trust-musk-we-go-federated-with-nextcloud-social/

[–] Identify9461@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nextcloud Social, nice! Although developing and improving current features for actual cloud storage would be nicer!