Show HN: Cactoide – Federated RSVP Platform

(cactoide.org)

67 points | by orbanlevi 3 days ago ago

29 comments

  • macintux 3 days ago ago

    How do you plan on handling the influx of garbage? I like the idea, but I’m inclined to think registration of event organizers would be necessary to control the spam.

    • orbanlevi 3 days ago ago

      Yea something like that would be necessary in the long run, or just use the event creation cookie user to moderate the rsvps. (or you can create private events)

      • nrhrjrjrjtntbt 3 days ago ago

        How does federated social already handle spam? just use that. I guess specific servers can ban.

  • verdverm 3 days ago ago

    Smoke Signal has a similar system on ATProto (no affiliation)

    I believe this is the project that has the Rust code (on the GitHub of ATProto)

    @smokesignal.events/acudo at main · tangled https://share.google/HG59BdzeJpib7fw5x

    • orbanlevi 3 days ago ago

      Ohh nice! I'll look into it.

  • atulvi 3 days ago ago

    There are several offensively titled events. No moderation whatsoever. This is likely 100% vibe coded in a day.

    • orbanlevi 3 days ago ago

      Ofc, don’t have to moderate every randomly submitted event, but I am planning to add a moderation page to delete or filter offensive events.

  • righthand 3 days ago ago

    This is cool looking but you should note in the front page that it has ical, et al. calendar features.

    • orbanlevi 3 days ago ago

      Thanks for the feedback.

  • roshannarma 3 days ago ago

    This is super cool, going to try using this for an event this week and self-host a server if it works nicely, have been looking for a privacy-first version of Partiful for a while.

  • zestyping 2 days ago ago

    Please, consider a better name. It's really hard to promote something with a name that no one can pronounce or spell.

  • james-bcn 3 days ago ago

    Needs the ability to have a waitlist.

  • dbjacobs 3 days ago ago

    Any plans to add the ability to have waiver/release forms for an event that need to be signed?

    • orbanlevi 3 days ago ago

      I didn’t think of that.

  • rpearce9 3 days ago ago

    I quite like this, have just spun up a quick self hosted instance to play with.

    I'm wondering though - after creating an event, how does one see the list of who has RSVPd to attend? I can't seem to find any way to see this info.

    • orbanlevi 3 days ago ago

      In the detailed page of the event, there is the rsvp list.

  • mrtesthah 3 days ago ago

    How does it compare to Mobilizon?

    • orbanlevi 3 days ago ago

      It's similar, but not that good as Mobilizon, Im focusing on simplicity with an improved UI and experience.

      I'm assuming easier to spin up a new instance on your own, but this is my personal opinion.

      • rapnie 3 days ago ago

        Do you have plans for adding ActivityPub support in the future? That would be very cool, and having interop with these other FOSS projects will help give things network effects.

    • james-bcn 3 days ago ago

      Mobilizon looks interesting but their docs results in a 404, which doesn't inspire confidence.

  • hacb 2 days ago ago

    Any plan for supporting different timezones?

  • andy_ppp 3 days ago ago

    Very cool, is it possible to add voting for multiple dates too?

    • orbanlevi 3 days ago ago

      Right now nope, but I'm planning to add new features.

      • thedangler 3 days ago ago

        API, Please make an API? I could integrate my RSVP system into it which requires more specific features but could use this to create the base for the event.

        • orbanlevi 3 days ago ago

          You need an API for creating events?

          • thedangler 4 hours ago ago

            Yes, I would piggyback on to the base event which would be created, which would allow me to build out my extra features which need a base event.

            API's are always a good thing, weather they are private or not.

          • macintux 2 days ago ago

            Not the person who asked for it, but I think they were suggesting they'd use the API to retrieve information about RSVPs/current state of a planned event. (Perhaps even RSVP on someone else's behalf.)

  • matteohorvath 2 days ago ago

    do you plan to put selling tickets into it?