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 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.
CoMaps (which uses openstreetmaps) has the option of adding a link to a menu for restaurants, though I don’t think it has reviews.
You can add websites to businesses on OSM too. It’s not that common, unfortunately
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)
Users, that could help.
*Organic users
I’m ok with genetically modified users.
I’m a talking butterfly if that helps
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.
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My friends and neighbors and loved ones.
Any city/county/state/federal (or your countrys equivalent) running their own fediverse servers (especially Mastodon) instead of simply having a twitter handle.
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.
They can certainly self-host, it doesn’t mean you have to join those instances. Them making those instances would be good for adoption.
eBay/marketplace/etsy alternative.
I believe Flohmarkt is a fediverse alternative.
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.
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
If it was named something else illogical itd work, like weinerschnitzel selling no schnitzel
Lots if nice users posting original content.
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.
I’d love to get some BAME make up skincare etc in !Womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone but I’ve had zero luck
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.
I dunno I have zero tech skills… I am a bit of a nerd though if that counts
Closed/private Communities akin to Discord or Whatsapp, where you could have family channels or work groups, classes and the like.
Has been possible on Friendica for 16 years now. Even more possible on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. And all still part of the Fediverse (unless you count a Hubzilla or (streams) channel with ActivityPub off that only runs on its native protocol as not part of the Fediverse).
Forums for long, linear discussion, like phpBB or Discourse, with good discoverability.
I do miss a good forum. That used to be my favorite thing about the internet.
I really miss those days, when you had a good one you were like a family.
More people
It’s always worth posting something. I post a lot and the majority of stuff gets comments
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.
