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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?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd really like for PeerTube to take off, especially with how YouTube/Google seem to be escalating the war on adblockers.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fun fact, video files are extremely big and cost money to host. It's a neat idea but will never be scalable in the same way that YouTube is without some form of monetization

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Funnily enough, I think federation is the only way anything is going to compete with YouTube. If the hosting costs are distributed across the network, it gets a bit more viable.

I could imagine a niche hobby focused instance funded by a patreon that hosts the videos of a few related creators. Perhaps the videos contain sponsorships which the hosting instance gets a cut of.

It would be even better if there was a BitTorrent style P2P sharing from others who have recently watched a video sharing it to other users. A bit tough from a browser, so perhaps in order to watch videos you need to sign up with (or simply just access via) a "viewer" instance that acts as a content cache and seed for other viewer instances.

You'd have a couple of network hops and p2p startup delays to contend with so perhaps the first 10-20s of a video are packaged as separate chunks that can be fetched directly from the source, or perhaps prefetched for subscribed channels on a given instance. I think you could fudge this as being more or less seamless with an HLS stream.

Viewer instances could fund themselves through the usual selection of options, and keep a cap on costs by limiting users. I could imagine a lot of people might self host viewer instances

Sorry that ended up as a bit of a brain dump

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

peertube already has the bittorrent thing, just not many people watch at the same time. it needs to be easier to seed videos you watch/like without leaving the browser window open

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That was my thinking behind the viewer instances that do the seeding once the user has gone away from the browser. It also simplifies the client apps as they don't have to try and set up p2p connections in random environments (imagine someone watching something on their phone via public WiFi)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

why peer to peer wouldn't be scalable for this?

For not popular Videos you could have the same system as private trackers to encourage people to seed those videos.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are escalating n paying customers too...

Imagine paying 15 bucks for something having their shit shoved up your ass without consent, audio is compressed junk. They turn off 4k randomly etc...

They don't pay for any content really either just serving ads to plebs and booking profits... How are they not making money?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, the only thing about YouTube that pisses me off as a paying subscriber is that even though I pay for no ads...every fucking video has at least one "sponsor call-out" (aka: ad) that I have to manually skip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nah but see, that directly supports the creator making the content you’re watching.. It’s annoying, yes, but at least you can skip over it immediately instead of having forced ads shoved in your face so Google can make an extra buck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh please I hope so.

It's so frustrating how many youtube creators have to play stupid games just to make it so that their own subscribers see their videos. If I'm subscribed, I wanna see on my home screen when a new video is added by someone I'm subscribed too. I don't wanna see clickbait_master_10,000's newest video on there. Like there are so many content creators with millions of subs, who get no views because the aLgOrItHm decided people don't wanna see their videos, even though all those people subbed to them.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really want to see federated wiki system, just because of how awful Fandom is and the independent wikis are all super spread out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ditto. And this could work really well when coupled with Lemmy, as wikis often have a comments section, that Lemmy could provide them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

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.

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

I really hate how interwiki navigation sucks on Fandom. Like, they've done all this branding and centralizing of the Fandom platform, yet I'm pretty sure they only fairly recently started logging you in on all wikis whenever you signed in on one.

Its all just to try and be some hip pop culture thing for use to "consoom" without any effort to actually take advantage of being a central platform for the repository of lore from across culture.

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

So imagine if you can sign in to one of the independent wiki and can edit/comment/link to copy on all federated pages.

So there doesn't need to be a Nintendo wiki, but a federation of Zelda/Mario/Kirby etc.

(Yes I know Nintendo Independent Wiki Association is a thing, but it'll be easier on them if they have software level federation.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this would be cool, but I could see it causing issues for places like Memory Alpha, which have a really strict and well-defined manual of style and acceptable references. I frequently see things on other wikis that you'd never see on Wookiepedia, Tardis Data Core, and/or Memory Alpha, like fanart embedded in articles, links to YouTube videos, incomplete drafts without proper tagging, etc.

EDIT: Conversely I could really see it benefiting the smaller wikis, especially ones with lots of overlap with each other (all the various Marvel/DC wikis, the specific Clone Wars wiki separate from the main Star Wars one, etc)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m still hoping Lemmy becomes popular.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Not sure if it counts but more BookWyrm style services like IMDb, Discogs, etc.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My god I would love to have some version of facebook without suggested content.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

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.

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

I know Mastodon is more like Twitter but, I feel like it could also replace much of Facebooks functions too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Go to Feeds. You can even pin it directly to the navigation bar.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What app or apps can you use to access PixelFed?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A solid equivalent to AskReddit would be nice. I know a lot have tried but they’re all too small at this point

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm not really a fan of BTC becoming more wide spread. I'd prefer something more akin to GNU Taler.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A federated SoundCloud would be nice, especially SC became paywalled

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There is Funkwhale that you can use for self-publishing music. You can also upload your music library privately to listen to remotely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I would love to see funkwhale or another soundcloud fedi clone become more popular.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

i just want to see a bunch of random visualizers and shaders, generative art gifs blasted in my face like the old /r/woahdude

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Friendica is 13 years old, but it takes a lot to get people to leave what they're comfortable with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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

more integrated events with management, so many thing happen on facebook because of event fuctionality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey Rev! Long time no see, hope you've been doing well!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

something to do with airlines

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Deeper intergration with p2p file sharing\streaming-oriented sites and protocols, e.g. torrents, but decentralized too. Think like Blizzard with their p2p acceleration of downloads using other people's downloaded game. Basically, making your own PC a source of content for those accesing instance. May probably ease traffic reqs for instances and make them more reliable under ddos.

Infrastructure for old-fashioned game servers' communities, like those for Minecraft. Login with your fediverse account, one-click joining server, creating federated networks of them with theoretical migration of progress\playtime\achievements. It can make this way of multiplayer gaming convinient again. Yet again, it needs specifically tailored games\clients.

Mapping and geocaching communities. A network of overlaying local map-canvases that people can interact with by adding favorite routes, comments, points of interest.

Books and articles shared between repositories of different universities\libraries.

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