• d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
      41·
      2 years ago

      THIS! The thing that is the most immediate and frustrating thing about getting into Fedi. I started out making whole new accounts (with the same user name) every time I clicked a link to a Mastodon instance. Both because I wanted to make sure I had the name I wanted, and because I didn’t understand that I needed to more manually add users to my follow lists (and in some cases it seems some instances need you to be part of their instance). I also had made accounts for some of the other Fedi social media sites here and there at some point. Just to go back and see that the site/instance isn’t there anymore. So at the very least it would be nice to see both easier ways (at least more obvious ones) to transfer accounts with all the stuff posted/favorited/etc to new instances. And maybe a way to kind of do cold storage backups of accounts that can be saved by the user. Kind of similar (but not the same) to how you can make a local wallet of crypto that all you need to do to use it is to load the recovery words into a warm wallet. That way I can basically see that a site went down, and not have lost as much.

      That and figuring out some kind of search standards that can be enabled for finding other Fedi things and just seeing stuff. Something that makes it easier to at least search for media content like getting results for all PeerTube instances in one place. But can be left off or set levels by the instances that don’t want to participate. With so many people getting frustrated at YouTube and the ever increasing ad counts. Making at least the finding of stuff easier for normies (and getting apps on devices like Roku) would help get more creators to at least duplicate their channels this way. The time for getting serious alts out there is now IMO. People put up with YouTube due to ease of use and because they don’t see real options that aren’t outright grifts or otherwise feels super sus.

    • smallcircles@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yes agreed. This is by far the most direly needed across the fediverse. The Nomad protocol implemented in Streams offers nomadic identity. There’s various discussions on SocialHub on it like this one but until now no real further implementation efforts, AFAIK. There’s movement on the W3C DID Recommendation (where there are many methods, a lot of those blockchain-based but others not blockchain dependent such as did:ORB).

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    23·
    2 years ago

    Something new. Why just rebuild the big players.

    Okay enough joking, it is a Tik-Tok alternative. -.-

  • hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org
    21·
    2 years ago
    1. discourse. they tried to get funding for developing federation to no avail. i already have 10 discourse accounts… if there was federation one account would be enough.
    2. pinterest alternative
    3. pocket alternative
      • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
        31·
        2 years ago

        Why not just use a folder in your bookmarks for pocket? It’s still synced to the rest of your instances and e2ee in Firefox.

        • Soviet Snake
          5·
          2 years ago

          I don’t know how many bookmarks you have, but I have a shit ton of them, and it starts to get complicated, and FF’s bookmarking is not that good, every time you save one you need to tell it specifically where you want to save it, instead of using some tagging system, which makes me ending up dumping everything into a random folder. And when you do OS reinstall Firefox’s old bookmark toolbar is now a sub folder within the toolbar, so you end up with multiple shitty sub folders unless you tidy them up. I’d like a similar system for images, honestly, with some tagging instead of folder archiving.

        • Icarus@lemmy.ml
          5·
          2 years ago

          I hate bookmarks, idk, I just hate them, I’ve lost my bookmarks so many times that now I’m afraid to even try

      • Soviet Snake
        14·
        2 years ago

        I honestly think they should target it more as an internet fuckbuddy thing, I don’t think you’re going to find anyone with whom to fuck in such a niche platform.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
      2·
      2 years ago

      The problem with that would be probably spam. Low effort advertisement is already bad enough on such platforms and it would be even worse on a federated network with volunteer staff only.

      • hendrik@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        idk. maybe there is a technical solution for spam? i’ve been annoyed about the amount of spam comments on peertube. maybe there is a solution that’d work for several federated platforms.

  • Muad'DibberA
    12·
    2 years ago

    Place reviews, ala Foursquare / yelp . It could be built on openstreetmap.

  • monobot@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    Stack Overflow. It is such an obvious one that we are missing, different communities need q&a forum type of thing adding federation to it would be pretty nice.

  • Soviet Snake
    6·
    2 years ago

    Something like LetterboxD but decentralized, there’s BookWyrm which could be modified to work for that, but there’s nothing like that for films.

  • Stefan Midjich ꙮ҄@mastodon.se
    4·
    2 years ago

    @OptimusPrime I’m thinking of a non-profit, federated, self-hosted dating site.

    I’m imagining each change to a user profile is an AP post. Like adding a picture, editing your profile text. Other users can boost your profile. It would be very much like Mastodon with one major difference being that you could create a swipable tinder-like frontend for it to swipe through all the profiles.