Ibis

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Ibis is a federated online encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. Users can read, create and edit articles seamlessly across instances. It uses the Activitypub protocol to connect users across different websites, similar to Mastodon or Lemmy.

https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis

https://ibis.wiki/

founded 8 months ago

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How is ibis development going so far? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's been a while since I've heard any news. Not that there's anything wrong with that cause you guys are working on Lemmy aswell.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm also pretty excited about Ibis, but I think the main dev said they wouldn't be able to devote any more time to it right? If I had the skills I'd take on the project myself, it's really neat!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is there maybe a development group chat on Ibis? I would like to try to contribute

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There's a Matrix chat for it, but it's just as quiet as here unfortunately: #ibis:matrix.org

Oooh maybe that community that's learning Rust and ActivityPub at the same time should take it on as a project? [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's actually a pretty nice idea! I'm part of this group, so I'll try suggesting it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just saw this post now. Its exactly this, I already worked on Ibis for around three months to finish the proof of concept, but it will take roughly a year of fulltime work to get it ready for production, and I cant afford to spend so much time working on this for free. I did apply for funding from NLnet, so if we're lucky and it gets approved I will be able to work on it more. Otherwise Ibis will remain in the current state, or I have to look for funding elsewhere (suggestions welcome).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

or I have to look for funding elsewhere

Donations, perhaps? I'm not sure if they should be mixed with or kept separate from the funds for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

There are donation options in the announcement post. However I think people are very unlikely to donate to a project in proof of concept stage which doesn't have any real users yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think the main dev said they wouldn’t be able to devote any more time to it

Do you remember when/where they said that?