It’s not a bunker per se, it is just that, if you are a review platform, the easiest initial targets would be Goodreads, IMDb, etc. Other types of stuff to review may take a little longer. However, if you can get access to a source of unique IDs, it may be possible to import the information. As it is written in Python there will be knowledgeable folks around who can better advise on this. I’d suggest post about it here: [email protected]. See what other people think about it.

That’s clever, does it work with Lemmy and/or Friendica?

There are a few ways to monetise the Fediverse.

• Donations - to devs and those running the instances. Lemmy gets enough from donations and grants to have a couple of full-time devs but it still doesn’t pay a lot. dansup using Kickstarter is proving interesting. Donations to your instance works well and a lot of places that offer this bring in enough to cover hosting costs but not much more. Open Collective has proved very good in this regard.
• Classified ads - [email protected] does a decent job of bringing buyers and sellers together.
• Subscription newsletters/blogs - Ghost is moving into the same space as Substack but with federation, so should do well.

So you wouldn’t be able to give up the day job by running an instance but you might if you were the lead devs of a popular service or if you had a thriving following on Ghost.

Flohmarkt is nice if a little small atm but of course it is very new.

Philosophically, the classified ad model (a bit like Etsy or eBay without auctions, where you are just an introduction service) seems more in keeping with the Fediverse and has a lot less hassles than trying to replicate Amazon with all it’s storage and shipping.

I’ll check if it would work to implement their api in a normal website/shop.

What I’d like to see is more seamless integration of [email protected] into other Fediverse services.

So someone has a blog for their writing on WordPress or Ghost but can run a sidebar or footer with links to Flohmarkt where people can buy a signed copy or special edition directly. Or you have it working with [email protected] where users can read a review of a film and click through to see if anyone has a copy of the Blu-ray on Flohmarkt.

Equally, [email protected] is a kind of Facebook replacement and Flohmarkt could slot in there as a Marketplace replacement.

In general we probably need more plug-ins in Fediverse services to help integrate things more tightly and Flohmarkt seems the kind of thing that would work well when slotted into a lot of other existing services.

if flohmarkt got “outlawed” for example because lobbyists and such

That would be very difficult to do with a decentralised service.

flea market

[email protected]

Reading the post, I found what I really want right now: a federated review platform.

[email protected] is a general review site. It currently covers media but, if you can get the data in (SKUs?) I can’t see a reason it couldn’t cover other products.

I’m largely still on Reddit to direct people towards the fire exits.

I did have a chat with someone about getting off Facebook and they reckoned they could get the majority of friends and family off Facebook onto Friendica but would struggle to give up Messenger and Marketplace. I pointed them to Matrix and Flohmarkt but also appreciated that it might not be possible to make a clean break but the important thing was to get at least one foot out of the Big Web even if they aren’t fully out yet.

Not really. There are things dedicated to specific modes of transport, [email protected], [email protected], etc but nothing for the whole category.

If you’d like to see something like this, I’d recommend starting [email protected].

You’re very welcome. Have a lovely rest of your day.

I’ve said it before but join-fediverse needs to ask a few simple questions to walk new users through a decision tree that offers them a couple of instances at the end of the process:

• What service are you looking for?
• Where are you located?
• What languages do you speak?
• What are your interests?

This is just what I’d do if someone asked.me about joining the Fediverse and should help minimise decision paralysis.

That’s my take on it too.

Late Web 1.0/early Web 2.0 we had a diverse ecosystem of forums, wikis, blogs (micro and macro), etc. The next logically step would have been to invent a protocol to get them talking to each other. Instead, the Big Web offered everyone convenience as long as they were happy living inside their walled garden, which was fine until it wasn’t.

We’re now just trying to fix the mistake of trusting the Big Web and get back to where we were before it all went wrong.

See also: [email protected].

Yeah, I’ve spoken to a few people on Reddit who have got themselves bogged down doing background reading where they just need to make the jump and learn as they go. Which is what most of us did.

You don’t have to start big. Come up with a simple idea, figure out how you can make it in an accessible language (like Python or PHP), grab some tutorials and get cracking.

And thank you for being so supportive in their endeavours to make the Small Web kinder. 👍👍

Default instances would go a long way, I know there’s a lot of hate for lemmy.world but defaulting to the biggest instance or a random one in the top 10 would help ease some of the early friction.

I’d rather join-lemmy (and join-fediverse) were smarter.

Have a series of questions (for join-fediverse add “what service do you want?”):

• Where are you?

• What languages do you speak?

• Select your hobbies from the list below:

And it then spits out 2 or 3 instances.

It’s what I’d do if someone asked me directly for a recommendation and should be relatively easy to do.

As we say with someone posting a link to db0 on r/piracy, if you just say to people “this is the instance for you” and it seems relevant then they make the jump. I’m tempted to go to the main subs for Canada, Australia, the UK, etc and just post a link to the relevant instance.

It’s something I’ve raised with the other Admins and we may see if our users would be up for swapping the default frontend to one of the others.

I know I favour this, but I may be biased.

My main tip for picking an instance is go for a region or topic specific instance so your local feed is manageable and relevant.

Run by us, for us.

Thanks, didn’t realise some were unlimited. I’ve only just moved to peertube.wtf and I’ll stay there for now. Any sign of pixelfed.wtf?

I’ll see how Tumblr federation goes as I do fancy trying to find ways to take advantage of their storage capacity. However, well see…

Now that is Interesting.

I had some thoughts about getting public domain short films into the Fediverse but you’d rapidly exhaust the allowance on most instances. However, this might just be the ticket. Time to brush off my Tumblr password…

Maybe PeerTube can already do that, haven’t played with it enough to know.

You’d think Peertube would be able to.