The Fediverse is growing and we have decently successful platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon. What else would you like to see?
Any big tech platform not yet replaced or maybe something new altogether? What are we missing?
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18 hoursI’d love for bands, venues and event promoters to list their upcoming shows on Mastodon. But I can’t really see it happening in the immediate future, since they have to cast the broadest possible net to lure people in. I tend to go to a lot of punk / garage shows (it’s an emotional outlet, I guess) and they’re allllll advertised exclusively on Instagram, often with AI-gen flyers. To add insult to injury.
- VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish9 hours
Having more localized communities would change that.
A lot of small punk shows need to build a following locally before they can get traction nationally/internationally.
- Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish20 hours
Windows admin content. I am unfortunately cursed with the task and I’d love to be able to keep up with the patches here instead of needing reddit.
- 9 hours
It’s always worth posting something. I post a lot and the majority of stuff gets comments
- TheStaffmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish20 hours
This may be self serving but if someone could maybe contact Mojang and get the Minecraft instance to be an officially recognized Social Media outlet like r/Minecraft is on Reddit, that would be peachy.
Oh and a syncable mobile app
A federated roaming user directory so you can have the same user at once in different aspects of the Fediverse.
- 1 day
100% this would be it. I also think one unified account would help with adoption. I run my own instances and think it’d be much easier to get friends on board if i didn’t need them to sign up for several services.
Forums for long, linear discussion, like phpBB or Discourse, with good discoverability.
- 1 day
I do miss a good forum. That used to be my favorite thing about the internet.
- 9 hours
I really miss those days, when you had a good one you were like a family.
Discourse has an ActivityPub plugin: https://discourse.org/plugins/activitypub
This plugin, for example, is enabled on SocialHub https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/about (it’s a forum for fediverse developers)
- buran@lemmy.todayEnglish1 day
More non-English communities.
The Fediverse it’s pretty English-centric and there are very few communities of non-English speakers, even huge languages like Spanish with hundreds of millions of people.
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish9 hours
I think that’s largely due to the lack of variety in our clientele.
It seems to be hard to get anyone from the non-geek community over here. My wife isn’t interested at all if it doesn’t have an algorithm. She wants the tech to spoon-feed her things she’ll like instead of finding communities. Threads, Bluesky, Tiktok, Instagram just have all the people because it’s what the masses crave.
- 7 hours
I dunno I have zero tech skills… I am a bit of a nerd though if that counts
- etbubsy@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
I agree with this. Outside of German, I’ve found it very difficult to find communities in other languages. I couldn’t tell whether those communities didn’t exist at all or whether they were simply not discoverable.
- HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
So Lemmy and Mastodon are mirrors of two popular forms of social media; what I think might be the next real step is innovation.
No, not a fediverse AI, something more human and “old web”. A federated forum system paired with a solid fedi-search engine could do slot of good - especially with the walled gardens and AI slopfest that the surface net is becoming.
- dil@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
I am a bit disappointed by all the federated social media kinda being boring clones of existing things instead of branching out more. More customizability would be nice. Just got Marvis for apple music and I really like the idea of setting smart rules for my social media feeds. (Creating your own algorithm) Cyberspace.online is a pretty interesting looking alt take on social media, not open source tho I don’t think.
- dil@lemmy.zipEnglish1 day
Something that lets us create our own profiles like myspace would be nice, using threejs or some sht to allow for interactive experiences
- gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
Interesting … It looks pretty active. A few dozen instances, mainly in Germany. This has real potential.
- unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish2 days
Would be even better if these things didn’t use completely stupid names!! They’re not clever, or hip, or even fun. Flohmarkt sounds like I’d be too embarrassed to share what it is.
- unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish2 days
Yeah I see that now after looking it up. OK that makes more sense. Still not a great alt for North America yet
- dil@piefed.zipEnglish2 days
If it was named something else illogical itd work, like weinerschnitzel selling no schnitzel
Flohmarket is just the name of the software, which as another said, is the German word for flea market. I suspect the creator is German.
Anyone who self-hosts their own flohmarket instance can call their instance whatever they want.
- lambisio@feddit.clEnglish2 days
Names are subjective. “Youtube” makes no sense if you discard all the grab that it has now in retrospective. “Craiglist” is even worse.
- unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish2 days
Yeah, I guess I’m old enough to remember TVs being referred to a such hah 😅
- lambisio@feddit.clEnglish2 days
…this is the first time in the entire Fediverse that I feel not-that-old 👀
- StellarExtract@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
Also known as the “boob tube” with “boob” being a synonym for “idiot”. I’m not that old…
- 2 days
I do think that would be neat but wonder how payments might be integrated from a technical perspective. I also wonder if there are any regulations that would get in the way or if it would even apply to something like that.
Edit: also, if people buy something then the instance goes offline. That would be another issue to figure out.
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish9 hours
The whole thing needs legal, insurance and escrow. Nobody in their right mind would want to host it for free if it actually handled the money. Could go anonymous and crypto but really that’s just asking for it.
Hooking up buyers and sellers and having them sort out prices, taxes and shipping would prob be the only viable way.
At some point, someone is going to do enough business to get a good rep and make a large sale and screw someone out of money.
The issue in the US with accepting payments on behalf of sellers is that you have to then collect sales tax which is different for every locality. Then you also have to issue tax forms to the sellers for sales over a certain amount. Which leaves us with sellers collecting payments on their own which means using something like PayPal or Bitcoin. You would just have to have people build trust through reviews and hope for the best. You could base the service in a random other country so that you wouldn’t have a bunch of regulations to deal with and leave all the tax stuff up to the buyers and sellers. You’d probably run into issues with accepting credit cards though.
What about something like wero integration? Isn’t that supposed to be peer-to-peer?
I get that the trust is another issue though. What happens when a person gets stiffed? Who’s guaranteeing the purchase or vetting sellers?
On darknet markets they use an escrow account and admins act as mediators, so as long as you can show that you have a valid tracking number. The issue becomes when people try to scam you by selling you broken electronics or scam buyers pulling fraud returns. Weirdly this is common with VCRs on eBay. There’s large resellers who buy good VCRs and steal parts out of them and return them. Then they resell on Amazon. I guess it comes back to having a karma system.
- 2 days
Yeah I’ve thought about the question there of like is it acceptable then for those managing the instance to collect a percentage of transactions in the case where they provide payment management, arbitration, etc. Because if someone is a bad actor on Lemmy or mastadon you just ban them or the instance, but in the case of money changing hands that’s more difficult to administer
- gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
I’d love to see that wonderful interoperability we were all promised. It should be possible to have one identity/account that’s connected to multiple services. I should be able to log in once, post some thoughts on Mastodon, share a photo on Pixelfed, and comment on a PeerTube video. Some services have tried to combine various formats with a little success, but it has been very limited, and generally broken.
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
Monetization broker for a video service. Let’s give Youtube a run for the money.
Hosted gaming system, card games, board games, tabletop simulator style. Maybe Minecraft java, built around self hostable servers.
E2E Encryption Communication, maybe a tightly integrated reticulum host.
Dedicated news system focused on free journalism (hard with AI and propaganda I know)
Shore up Pixelfed and Loops or Competition for them.
Some form of integrated system that ties all this stuff together, like a dashboard with all your different things. Maybe something like the homeassistant dashboard but for all your fedi services.
- 2 days
more outreach to, and adoption by, communities that are not specifically tech- or FOSS-focused, like crafting, parenting, fashion, home repair, or brewing, for example. gotta keep chipping away at those network effects. onboarding and ux will need to be top tier.
and moderation is crucial: toxicity pushes people away, so we should maybe try to not push our content creators (actual and potential) away.
- TheStaffmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish20 hours
For some, lighter moderation is the special sauce though. Like, I want my mods to understand the difference between frustrated venting and actual, actionable threats and/or malicious content.
It would really help if the rules were clearly stated, and then those exact rules, not some other hidden set entirely, were enforced.
ML comes to.mind, censoring anything negative about China, Russia, or North Korea (how much longer until it adds the USA to that list?), without explicitly stating that anywhere.
It’s the “surprise” aspects that most often turn people away.
Another one is how Hexbears have historically been allowed to troll people all across the Threadiverse. They were explicitly asked not to do that by their own admin team, but there too the follow-up actions did not match the talk.
