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Fediverse Futures

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Social Media Reimagined

This is a companion to Fediverse Futures on Social Coding to elaborate the Fediverse from high-level, non-technical perspectives, brainstorming our visions and dreams.

We need a more holistic approach to fedi development and evolution. We need product designers, graphics artists, UX / UI / Interaction designers, futurists and visionaries to join the dev folks. Everyone is encouraged to join here and enrich our views on what Fediverse can be with diverse and different viewpoints, and to stimulate brainstorming, creativity, thinking out-of-the-box and crazy, wild ideas.

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What software is the fediverse missing? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

A Deviantart (or similar art sharing site) clone. None of the current offerings are really suited for that. Sure you can use Mastodon or PixelFed to post art/fanart, but discovery of your portfolio is a crapshoot and so is the commenting system for people wanting to give feedback.

A Wattpad (or similar story publishing site) clone. Same problem as above. I've tried posting my writings on Lemmy but the relatively low character limit (for a forum) makes it entirely unsuited for long pieces (though this can be pretty easily remedied just by increasing the character limit, long form writings are are pretty successful on Reddit and forums after all, see, one, /r/nosleep, /r/worldbuilding and and all the other share-your-story subreddits, and two, all the fanfiction being published and literary roleplays happening on bb style forums. But still, something dedicated to creative writing with built-in support for tags, as well as story partitioning like chapters and series would be ideal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

https://github.com/Weasyl/weasyl

not federated, but probably not too hard to add.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Nice app suggestions!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Re: Deviantart clone: There's been talks about adding ActivityPub features to MediaGoblin, which could be interesting. But I personally believe that making something new that was designed with federation from the start would be better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@dressupgeekout
there is @pixelfed who can do that.
a few years ago i was joking about a fediverse version of a seduction website, but well, Mastodon does that too already.
i believe groups just like Facebook does it is really a big miss in the Fedi.
mobilizon does that but it is missing the chatting and publishing way to have easy discussions between people.
that is currently the closest.

also i would love to see emerging other alternative tools who feel not so "social média" like. like bike sharing, or renting vacation stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@tykayn @dressupgeekout @pixelfed @HiddenLayer5

> other alternative tools who feel not so "social média" like

On that bit you might find @ohn and https://openhospitality.network interesting to check out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@HiddenLayer5 @dressupgeekout

That could make for a cool @bonfire extension

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perhaps... this?

https://meta.discourse.org/t/federation-support-for-discourse/90921/87

And maybe not with very long to wait 🤘😎🤘

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know you had lamented the fact that this wasn't so Arnold, but the project lead related to me that #Flarum federation isn't going to happen anytime soon, which I had been hoping would either happen with that product, or with Node.bb

I've never been especially happy with the stack chosen, but it's really just a matter of how non-trivial self-hosted installation and maintenance is, and it really is s great platform otherwise. It also happens to be what powers #Social_Coding and the ActivityPub . Rocks site already, so it will be a big boost for exposure of both, which is, IMO, awesome!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, I mentioned I was approached re:Flarum in November `22. Haven't heard back since, incl. my recent DM to Daniël. For me Discourse federation is most valuable, as I am on N forums. For SocialHub we've been encouraging federation for a long time, so really happy this is getting started indeed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I had a cool idea for a Fediverse dating app recently, but I'm not sure if that's something people would actually want

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Collaborative writing

I'd like to see a federated app that allows people to collectively design and author intricate plots, with features like in Manuskript or similar plot authoring tools.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A time tracking app such as Kimai would be neat, especially for the federated aspect where different teams & members could work together from their respective organization domain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Nice, like that. This is something to be eventually addressed by The Forgers Guild. You might post in the Ideas category of Discuss Social Coding (part of the Guild).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Another type would be governance tools like loomio or policykit