Fediverse

I wish there were an art site you could sign up for that let you follow artists on the fediverse and vice versa, but took its UX cues from DeviantArt and Fur Affinity. Discoverability should probably be local-only but I think that would be OK. The separation between artwork and journal entries in the main feed is something I've put into my own single-user server, and it's had such a good effect on my mental state that I would never use the fediverse without it. AO3-style tag hierarchies would be really cool too.

Users, that could help.

eBay/marketplace/etsy alternative.

My friends and neighbors and loved ones.

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.

More interactability between the different fediverse softwares.

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.

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.

Any city/county/state/federal (or your countrys equivalent) running their own fediverse servers (especially Mastodon) instead of simply having a twitter handle.

I can think of optional integration to other services as being an useful feature while at the same time relatively friction-free.

Some examples that come to mind that could give some integration ideas are Facebook the company with Threads the social media (but is tarnished by the company itself), Bridgy Fed, Wafrn, and Friendica bridging AT Protocol and ActivityPub (the first one seemingly being very popular), NeoDB allowing cross-referencing and importing entries from other databases and platforms, and RSS Parrot sharing posts from RSS feeds as ActivityPub posts (though sadly in this last one, interactions are one way only).

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

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.

More adoption by the public

Government agencies and businesses from my area. Information about local events. Everything is on Facebook 😔

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

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

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)

More people

more people embracing/publishing original content on peertube. righ now I just can't find anything decent to sub too other than Veronica Explains. I wish more linux youtubers would also put content on peertube or just decent original content in general

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.

I think this is a little bit outside of the ask, but I'd like to find a place that is both positive and relatively politically neutral.

Part of what drive me here was that the tip of the iceberg (facebook, instagram, tiktok) feel so deeply infused with ads/ai/influencers that even the content I like is likely deceitful. This bums me out and makes me not want to use social media.

Places like reddit and any of the #chans have less of this, but the baked-in politics in both make of them bum me out.

I like that Lemmy feels like it's actual people, but the politics and negativity can get to be a little much for me. I don't like to think about things I don't like, and while I can the value in being informed of things that I may need to act on, I don't think that constantly bringing up things we take for granted is helpful.

What I want to be doing is getting to build and be a part of something positive and purposeful, something people do because they're passionate, something that is so cool that the shitty stuff outside kind of pales in comparison. I've met lots of cool people on here that are that way, and I've been able to filter some of the negativity out by ignoring posts that I know will bring that out in people, but still, it would be cool to see something like that.

I hope it's as simple as finding the right instance for me.

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.

Nextdoor but less toxic

Monetization broker for a video service. Let's give Youtube a run for the money.

Hosted gaming system, card games, board games, tabletop simulator style. Maybe Minecraft java, built around self hostable servers.

E2E Encryption Communication, maybe a tightly integrated reticulum host.

Dedicated news system focused on free journalism (hard with AI and propaganda I know)

Shore up Pixelfed and Loops or Competition for them.

Some form of integrated system that ties all this stuff together, like a dashboard with all your different things. Maybe something like the homeassistant dashboard but for all your fedi services.

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.

Less memes. I feel like that is all this site is now..