Well, I cross posted this to the !opensource@lemmy.ml community, and one person showed a possible interest in continuing it, so I guess we can give it a small amount of time to see if someone actually wants to take on the platform, and if not - likely just do a single standalone community as you suggested.

Thanks for the kind words.

This could possibly work. One of the main priorities of the other platform was to have a “slower” and more “old school” internet, and to try and foster genuine and lasting connections and collaboration - and while it’s not impossible to foster that community within lemmy or piefed, it is a lot harder just on the way that threads and discussions are structured and buried over time. But something is obviously better than nothing.

LMAO, yeah pretty much. But to be fair, the name “UnfinishedProjects” is because the platform was to be targeting people like myself who love to work on projects, but often shy away from the commitment, discipline, and responsibility of seeing them through. Having a stack of “unfinished projects” is practically my calling card lmao. So while it is ironic…it’s sort of fitting haha. Turns out I couldn’t manage to even finish the project that was meant to contain the projects )_: hahha.

Yeah that makes sense. I will likely need to adjust the wording of the site then, to ensure it is clear the intentions. Thank you for the feedback :)

I’ll add it to my to-do list :)

Read here for a more detailed writeup: https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/About/Ethics

But essentially we actually heavily encourage copyleft licensing. Copyright is different then copyleft (at least from my understanding - but maybe I need to reword the sentence you quoted?)

Pretty much any type of “open” license is allowed except for CC-ND, because “no derivitive” sort of kills the spirit of our collaborative nature of allowing our projects to grow and evolve.

As for who controls the system, read more here: https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/About/Vision

In short, I “own” the VPS, but I am trying my best to make the platform belong to the community, while I simply act as a steward of the commons. I back up nonsensitive data publicly to Codeberg, and share actual backups with other admins. The goal is to have the community outlast any one individual. If anyone ever wants to, they can essentially copy the platform to a new VPS and Domain, and continue the platforms operations.

In practice, there may be a few hurdles as I am inexperienced and still learning - but hopefully the systems and operations will evolve with th community if successful. I want the platform to be a commons, not “belonging” to anyone - but stewards that may come and go. Outlasting me or any other admins. The goal is to diversify control and decision making as much as possible, allowing the community to self regulate/govern, but obviously in these early stages we can’t do that without members.

Hope that answers your questions, and we are always open to feedback. It’s tough getting a community off the ground, and we are just a couple of individuals who are passionate about the idea.

For a more detailed writeup on our current views: https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/About/Ethics

But in short, we don’t want to dictate the parameters for eacy project, and want each project to set their own requirements. We do have a “notice”/“banner” on the wiki that we ask people to utilize for each project to be clear and transparent about their requirements for AI/LLM use.

Thanks for the interest! As I mentioned on one of the other comments, our community is still small so if you are able to share or get involved it would greatly help build engagement for other members as well. Hope to see you over there :)

Sorry, just saw this reply. Thanks for registering :)

As our current number of members are low, it would be helpful if you have some stuff to share, or stop by the introduction category and introduce yourself! Hope to see you over there if not already.

It is a “standalone forum” but it also is integrated into the fediverse (nodeBB).

I played that game you’re talking about! I loved Wc3 custom games :)

:D. I hope we can see you over there! It’ll probably take a while for the community to take hold, but hopefully enough people are interested to help it be worthwhile!

@1@activitypub.space this actually makes me wonder, would it be possible to feed all of the topics within nodeBB forum categories into a single category that can be easily accessed from other platforms like piefed/lemmy/mastodon?

Thanks! You and the rest of the nodeBB community have been super helpful in getting us up and running, responding to bug reports, and etc.

So thank you very much for the awesome open source software - I can’t wait to see how the software grows and evolves over time :)

So it is on its own instance - the forum acts as the instance and each category within the forum acts as a community. So for example !announcements@forum.unfinishedprojects.net is one of our categories.

Exactly - I am hoping to find some smaller, close knit communities that align with our own to federate with. The goal isn’t to create another instance full of news feeds and etc…but instead I want to try and build a community that is focused on valuable interactions/collaboration and working to improve and contribute to the creative commons and open source community.

Oh, this is quite interesting - never heard of it before. I think this could definitely work to an extent, but I am already so deep down the rabbit hole for MediaWiki. Plus, I think MediaWiki is actually a great fit for this type of community, because it is community created, and has rollbacks of edits, and the community itself is able to collaborate and contribute very easily. While it isn’t in the fediverse, I think it will “essentially” be connected via the forum that is within the subdomain. The intent is for the forum and wiki to work side by side, and the forum will be the connection into the fediverse.

Regardless though, neodb.net is really cool - thanks for sharing :) I’ll definitely look into it more!

Sorry for the late reply, but yeah I tried both ways.

It’s me, the same person - just commenting from Lemmy/piefed. hello me!

Oh, I’m dumb - that makes more sense. Thank you!