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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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.
Any city/county/state/federal (or your countrys equivalent) running their own fediverse servers (especially Mastodon) instead of simply having a twitter handle.
The Netherlands has removed many departments form shitter and moved them to Mastodon.
You know how that would end up: massively slow server for 3 million a day hosted at politician X’s friend.
I’m not saying they need to physically host the metal, but the addresses need to be Fediverse addresses. Like how they current do email. I have no idea if my mayors email is outlook or Gmail or whatever, the important part is it’s mayor@city.gov.
I’m just kidding, it would be great :)
I don’t know that at all. Public services where I’m at are pretty well run.
Not so sure I want them to self host, just based on their track record for security, but I would like them to be more visible.
Also news outlets could benefit from doing this instead of us having to rely on repost automation.
I would also love to see peertube become more competitive to YouTube. It would probably need some kind of revenue sharing model or donation integration for that though.
I agree about the self hosted part. That part isn’t important. But an @city.mastodon server is better than an @city on twitter username. The important part is getting them off proprietary platforms.
Like how they all do email and websites now.
Probably someone needs to start a service aimed at them, like a mastodon instance called localgov.social or something
Yep. That’s what I meant. I want them to come to the fediverse but I don’t necessarily want the city’s IT admin to manage it between fighting laser printers.
A self-hosted instance has a big advantage: only those working on that admin can have a user. So if you see, p.e., @Emmanuel.macron@gov.fr you know it’s the real account and not a fake one.
Agreed. I don’t think I explained myself clearly enough: I want them to have a presence online. Among the reasons being exactly what you’re pointing out. However, I think at least for smaller cities with very little staff, it’s not realistic to ask them to literally self-host it (as in having a server on-prem running it). I would be fine with them outsourcing it or cloud-hosting it under their own domain. A potential solution for the small ones could be something like a state-level hosted service where municipalities can sign up and get their own accounts, for example. That would work even for something like Rittman, Ohio pop. 6,131.
They can certainly self-host, it doesn’t mean you have to join those instances. Them making those instances would be good for adoption.
Absolutely. The organizations that have the most to gain and the most capability to manage instances are
- local governments,
- news publishers/journalists, and
- Universities
These are groups that have unique publishing and legal mandates that already have the IT departments and adequate sway to compel users. They already host email and websites, and regularly come into conflict with corporate messaging platforms.
I think it’d be fun to have a kalshi/polymarket clone, but with internet points instead of money.
eBay/marketplace/etsy alternative.
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.
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
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?
I believe Flohmarkt is a fediverse alternative.
Interesting … It looks pretty active. A few dozen instances, mainly in Germany. This has real potential.
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.
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.
Names are subjective. “Youtube” makes no sense if you discard all the grab that it has now in retrospective. “Craiglist” is even worse.
YouTube always made sense because “tube” is old slang for TV.
Yeah, I guess I’m old enough to remember TVs being referred to a such hah 😅
…this is the first time in the entire Fediverse that I feel not-that-old 👀
Also known as the “boob tube” with “boob” being a synonym for “idiot”. I’m not that old…
Is just German for flea market.
Yeah I see that now after looking it up. OK that makes more sense. Still not a great alt for North America yet
You can name your flohmarkt instance whatever you want though.
That’s good to know, I see is avail on Yunohost, too
If it was named something else illogical itd work, like weinerschnitzel selling no schnitzel
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I’d like to see better interoperability, more bridges to other platforms, and more adoption, especially from people who claim to hate X or Elon Musk so much.
Government agencies and businesses from my area. Information about local events. Everything is on Facebook 😔
There’s a few trickling in to mastodon
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
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.
YouTube, obviously. And peertube is not it.
Why not? Because of the software, or just the lack of content?
My main problem is the lack of discoverability. Maybe the content is just not there, but even if it is I don’t think I’d be able to find it. And I regularly try.
this issue is adoption. for 90% of the casuals, they get their fix from Reddit, tiktok, Instagram, Imgur and youtube. Facebook if they are boomers, and linkedin if they are corporate types. They tend to be milquetoast parrots and regurgitators who think they are so clever “observing” a take that has been so well worn it’s its own ship of theseus three times over at this point. Short of the AI bubble bursting and forcing them elsewhere, I don’t see that changing anytime soon, sadly.
Not the one you’re replying to, but I’d generally agree.
If someone wants to post on Peertube, they basically either have to have the time, funding, and know-how to self-host, or arrive with an established audience. Someone with great creative talent does not necessarily want to run an expensive and complicated software project. Someone who has an established audience has very little incentive to jump to federation.
PeerTube is improving slowly. There are now a few instances with open registration, which could mean more fertile ground for good content. We shall see.
OK, so not the software, but the accessibility for non-techy people
More not leftists. Some tolerance for not left wing political views would be nice too. (the people I’m talking about will just down vote me because they are part of the intolerant left wing here. There are plenty of tolerant left wing people, but they don’t get attention)
I must downvote you because downvoting people who complain about downvotes is my truest calling. I do this knowing that I myself will be downvoted, but deep in your heart you know that this is how it must be.
I upvoted you for downvoting the guy who complained about being downvoted.
Unlikely. The leftists actually put in the work to create and populate an entire alternative Reddit (multiple actually: Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, nodeBB, etc.). And the rightists too (multiple actually: Truth Social, X, nostr, etc.). If the centrists truly want something, then somebody is going to have to actually make something happen.
you hate the liberals. The progressives are pretty done with them too, to be fair. We only hitch our wagons to them because the alternative is ACTUAL fascists. I’m leftist, and I can assure you that all we want is government that actually functions as a public service and money out of politics. Becoming an elected official should be seen like jury duty, not a career move.
An eBay replacement. Now that they heavily track everything and anything about users-be it sellers and buyers and visitors, I no longer use it after about 25 years… 😢
I don’t do social media, and Letgo/offerup is no better. Might as well go back to Craigslist lol
Agree this would be amazing, but also difficult, since money features as security concerns.
There is Flohmarkt, which is still in early stages, but looks promising. https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt
Less “platforms”, more “content in the platforms” tbh.
But quite definitively, local government agencies and municipal level agencies participating in their respective national instances. Defo reduces the dependency on Shitsites.
My friends and neighbors and loved ones.
More people
Came here to say exactly this.
It’s always worth posting something. I post a lot and the majority of stuff gets comments
I mean reddit is doing their best to send them our way!
