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Mobilize
A user-friendly, emancipatory and ethical tool for gathering, organising, and mobilizing.
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A practical tool
Mobilizon is a tool that helps you **find, create and organize
\nevents**.
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\nYou can also **create a page for your group** where the members
\nwill be able to **get organized together**.
An ethical alternative
As an ethical alternative to Facebook events, groups and pages, Mobilizon
\nis **a tool designed to serve you**. Period.
\n
\nNo _likes_, no _follows_, no infinite wall to _scroll_: **Mobilizon
\nleaves you in control of your attention**.
Federated software
Mobilizon is not a giant platform, but a **multitude of interconnected Mobilizon websites**.
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\nThis federated architecture helps **avoid monopolies** and offers
\na **diversity of hosting terms of service**.
What is Mobilizon?
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## What’s Mobilizon?
\n
\nMobilizon is an online tool to help manage your events,
\nyour profiles and your groups.
Your Events
On Mobilizon, you can **create a detailed page for your event**,
\npublish and share it.
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\nYou can also search for events by keyword, place or date, **participate in events (even without an account)** and add them to your agenda.
Your Profiles
Setting up an account on a Mobilizon instance will allow you to
\n**create several profiles** (i.e.: personal, professional, hobbies, activism,
\netc.), **organise events** and **manage groups**.
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\nBefore you create an account on an instance, don’t forget to **discover how that instance works by reading its “about” page**, to better understand its rules and policies.
Your Groups
In Mobilizon, **each group has a public page** where you can
\nlook up the group’s latest **posts and public events**.
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\nWhen invited to join a group, members can **participate in discussions
\nand manage a common resource folder** (i.e. links to a collaborative writing
\ntool, a wiki, etc.)
## An emancipatory tool, designed differently
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\nMobilizon has been designed as a practical tool that respects your attention,
\nyour autonomy and your freedom.
Saving Your Attention
Mobilizon is **not a social media, nor a hobby: it is a tool**.
\nYou won’t find features like subscriptions counters, thumbs ups or info walls with infinite scrolling.
\n
\nMobilizon’s design aims to **free your attention from the mechanisms
\nof self-staging**.
\nThis allows you to stay focused on what really matters: managing your events, your
\ngroups, your mobilization.
Diversity through Federation
Mobilizon is a **federated software**: hosts can install it
\non a server to create instances that act as Mobilizon websites.
\nMobilizon instances can be federated together so a profile
\nregistered on instance A may contribute to a group created on instance B.
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\nThis multiplicity makes it possible to **diversify hosting conditions**.
\n(governance, ToS, charters) and to **avoid the formation of monopolistic
\nplatforms**.
Respecting Your Freedom
Mobilizon is a Free-libre software. This means its code is transparent,
\npublicly auditable and **there are no hidden features**.
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\nThe code is **built by the community**, and everyone is free to
\nfork it and lead the project into new directions.
## It’s up to you
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\n- Try the [Mobilizon demo](@:link.mzo-demo)
\n- Find your [instance on Mobilizon.org](@:link.mzo)
\n- Learn how to use (and install) Mobilizon with [our documentation](@:link.jmz-docs)
\n- Join the discussion on [our forum](@:link.jmz-forum)
Who’s behind Mobilizon?
Mobilizon is **a free-libre and open source software maintained and financed by the French not-for-profit Framasoft**.
\n
\nCreated in 2004, the association is dedicated to **popular education
\non the challenges of the digital age**. Our small structure (less than 40 members,
\nless than 10 employees) is known for having carried out the De-google-ify Internet project, hosting 34 ethical and alternative online tools.
\nRecognized as being of general interest, our association **is more than 90% funded by donations**, which are tax deductible for French taxpayers.
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\n**The more this software is used and supported, the more people will use
\nand contribute to it, and the faster it will evolve towards a concrete alternative to platforms such as Facebook Events or Meetup**.
We won’t change the world from Facebook. Surveillance capitalism won’t develop the tool we dream of, because they couldn’t derive any profit from it.
The time has come to build something better, by taking a different approach.
Read Framasoft’s note of intent on the Framablog