I use FB because my family is on their.
My feed is almost entirely not my family, but “suggested” posts, and it made me realize I really hope something becomes popular to replace FB next and my family moves there.
What type of site do you hope becomes popular on the fediverse next?
I really want to see federated wiki system, just because of how awful Fandom is and the independent wikis are all super spread out.
Ditto. And this could work really well when coupled with Lemmy, as wikis often have a comments section, that Lemmy could provide them.
I would like to see a day where most websites, instead of having a “share to Twitter/Reddit” button, have a “Discuss this on our Lemmy community” button instead.
I’m still hoping Lemmy becomes popular.
I mean I think it’s popular enough to be usable at least! Which is the biggest problem with new social media, all the features in the world mean nothing if there is a small user base.
Not sure if it counts but more BookWyrm style services like IMDb, Discogs, etc.
My god I would love to have some version of facebook without suggested content.
For some reason whenever I go there these days to see what my family has posted, I’ll sometimes get 4 suggested content posts in a row. With recently them being like super anti vegetarian and anti electric vehicle.
As a vegetarian who uses electric vehicles, I know I’m silly, but I don’t need facebook reminding me all the time!
Bring back “sort by new” as well. No idea what they were thinking there. No I don’t need to see the same 3 top popular posts for a week straight.
There is an extension called “Social Fixer” that brings back the sort by new and allows you to filter out all the ‘sponsored’ and ‘suggested’ bullshit. It’s not being actively updated anymore, but it still works fine.
Wow thanks, I’ll have to look into that.
I was looking at Facebook the other day, first time in a while, and the amount of suggested content just in the feed is ridiculous. And my feed kept showing different stuff any time I reloaded, so I have no idea if I missed any updates from anyone I actually care about. It’s just so shit.
Non-stable content pisses me off. If I refresh the same URL in something like the same time period, I should get the exact same content.
Being unable to backtrack and end up where I was makes me anxious.
I know Mastodon is more like Twitter but, I feel like it could also replace much of Facebooks functions too?
Go to Feeds. You can even pin it directly to the navigation bar.
Pixelfed is working on stories which I’m really excited about. I love that kind of daily watch to catch up without posting on a feed that is always there. I think I’ve found myself hoping for a fully fleshed out discord replacement as well. Easy to manage servers with categories and channels, roles and permissions, etc.
Pixelfed was my answer too. I don’t do a lot of photo stuff, so I mostly stay on Mastodon/Lemmy, but the Dev is a really neat guy who seems like he needs to stay busy (have you heard of Sup yet?)
What app or apps can you use to access PixelFed?
I use the official app for no real reason other than thinking the dev is a cool person. Pixeldroid worked equally well.
Pixelfed is the one i’m hoping for too. I follow a few people on there, but it would be nice if anyone I knew used it.
A discogs replacement would be cool, or an etsy replacement that lets you list your wares for sale and take XMR/BTC, paypal, and all those cashapp things, etc.
I’m not really a fan of BTC becoming more wide spread. I’d prefer something more akin to GNU Taler.
Well then you don’t have to accept it, but it’s already widespread enough that it should be included, especially when privacy is less of a concern than buying drugs with XMR. I should note that the marketplace idea would be limited to legal items of course. Taler is cool, but not anonymous for both parties like XMR, I’m not saying don’t use it, but add it to the list rather than use Taler exclusively. No reason to not take multiple forms of payment and each “store” could choose what it accepts all the way from mailed cash to live chickens (figuratively, idk how that’d work logistically lol).
I should note that the marketplace idea would be limited to legal items of course.
How? There’s no way babysitting something like this to keep it to legal stuff wouldn’t be be a full-time multi-person job, and that’s before even starting to consider different legalities for different places.
I mean easy, if you see a listing for “heroin” on your instance, ban the acct, hell report their IP if you want. This isn’t alphabay, there are already better marketplaces for heroin. To your point, how does lemmy exist with CSAM, isn’t that a full time job?
So people selling drugs will just call them something that isn’t filtered or known to all the squares, just like they have done for decades on Craigslist.
It’s easy to say a marketplace app will be limited to legal stuff, but making that happen in reality is no simple prospect and federating it won’t make it any simpler.
Guess we need to shut down every marketplace ever IRL and online then.
A solid equivalent to AskReddit would be nice. I know a lot have tried but they’re all too small at this point
What is up with Facebook being soooooo bad like that. Its just constant suggested shit of shitty videos and ads.
I hate myself every time I open it. But I habitually do so due to dropping Reddit and this has annoyingly become my next dopamine hit.
A federated SoundCloud would be nice, especially SC became paywalled
There is Funkwhale that you can use for self-publishing music. You can also upload your music library privately to listen to remotely.
I would love to see funkwhale or another soundcloud fedi clone become more popular.
i just want to see a bunch of random visualizers and shaders, generative art gifs blasted in my face like the old /r/woahdude
Friendica is 13 years old, but it takes a lot to get people to leave what they’re comfortable with.
I found Friendica to work well for one user, but as soon as you add more, you really need to scale up and it gets very expensive to host very fast. I also had this issue where Google would just block my server, so anyone with a gmail account couldn’t get their login info…
There are things I like about it, and as the Fediverse as a whole starts growing, I might just set up a single-use Friendica instance for myself, but be prepared for headaches if you want to get a “small” server for your family.
I actually wrote a prototype for an IPFS-based FB replacement. It… kinda worked. I could get posts to share some of the time, but I reached a point where I realized I’d need to rip out a bunch of my backend and start over to fix it and I just didn’t have it in me at that time.
Since then, however, a new IPFS framework has come out that’ll replace a lot of the crappy code I’d written for interfacing with IPFS. I’m thinking of blowing off the dust and trying again.
more integrated events with management, so many thing happen on facebook because of event fuctionality
Hey Rev! Long time no see, hope you’ve been doing well!
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