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?

  • ex_06@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    58 minutes ago

    Lobsters and hackernews.

    Lemmy and piefed can be deviated into being used as a single sub instance as an alternative but it’s just not the same.

    Other than this, we are pretty fine with the basics, it would be nice to have more people working towards letting mods be mods with proper tools without involving CLI.

    Also some combo like local first acting as a PDS being able to be written by different softwares. (Basically atproto or solid yes)(yes silverpill and holos are working on this but 2 different people working on 2 different implementation of the hardest thing in the fedi doesn’t seem optimal for a network made of devs lol)

  • Expect Nothing@leminal.spaceEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    I’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.todayEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      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.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    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

  • TAG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Forums for long, linear discussion, like phpBB or Discourse, with good discoverability.

  • bufalo1973@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    A federated roaming use directory so you can have the same user at once in different aspects of the Fediverse.

      • cesco@discuss.aethelgard.spaceEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        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.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Interesting … It looks pretty active. A few dozen instances, mainly in Germany. This has real potential.

      • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
        35·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          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.clEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          Names are subjective. “Youtube” makes no sense if you discard all the grab that it has now in retrospective. “Craiglist” is even worse.

    • nerdspice@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      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.zipEnglish
        1·
        23 hours ago

        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.

      • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        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.

          • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            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.

      • urushitan 漆たん@kakera.kintsugi.moeEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        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

  • buran@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    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.zipEnglish
        1·
        22 hours ago

        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.

    • etbubsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    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.zipEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      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.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Something that lets us create our own profiles like myspace would be nice, using threejs or some sht to allow for interactive experiences

  • lokalhorst@feddit.orgEnglish
    221·
    3 days ago

    I would love to see an alternative for google maps where openstreetmap is not enough. So a system where you can post reviews, photos, menus of locations etc.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      OpenStreetMap is frankly about as good as a crowdsourced map can possibly be.

      And it’s always improving. Mobile apps like CoMaps let you add business information. There are also apps like Every Door, MapComplete, or SCEE, which particularly emphasize updating OSM on the go.

      There are apps for adding photos, such as Mapilary or Panoramax, which are not built into OSM, but built on top of it.

      There have been a few attempts at FOSS review projects, like lib.reviews or mangrove.reviews, although it is tricky to reach critical mass.

      Each of these are huge organizational challenges and data management challenges on their own. Without selling ads or mining data, it’s hard for me to imagine a single project that does evey part and does it well.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        2 days ago

        There are apps for adding photos, such as Mapilary

        just in case you don’t know, mapillary is a facebook project

        There have been a few attempts at FOSS review projects, like lib.reviews or mangrove.reviews, although it is tricky to reach critical mass.

        I think it’s even impossible if not accessible in a popular OSM map app

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      71·
      3 days ago

      CoMaps (which uses openstreetmaps) has the option of adding a link to a menu for restaurants, though I don’t think it has reviews.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      There is apparently an incredible amount of manipulation and legal fights happening around these reviews on Google maps, so that is probably a minefield any independent open-source developer should avoid.

    • nerdspice@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      That would be neat. It would also be really nice to have some kind of community notes section where you can info on parking, best times to go, etc. Especially for tourist destinations.

  • CrocodilloBombardino@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      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.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        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.