• Cas@pawb.socialEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    I personally would love to see a fediverse alternative to something like StumbleUpon, which I always found to be quite unique in the realm of social media.

    I also think having something like Spotify with social features powered by the fedi would be neat (I realise technically funkwhale is vaguely this, but in execution it really isn’t. It’s federation is pretty basic/not social). Thinking something where you can easily start listening parties, share music to friends to listen to, find song recommendations from friends likes, etc.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    3·
    18 hours ago

    I’ve love a federated online game. Hmm, maybe a MUD? Or some kind of sidescrolling platformer? Or a text adventure?

    Shit, I bet I could code a federated text adventure based on ActivityPub. I’ve done crazier things on with Internet protocols.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
      1·
      17 hours ago

      Does anything in the Fediverse have e2e encryption? Shouldn’t be hard to implement chat and a basic self advertisement, but I think even most people wouldn’t dip in their toes if any server admin could easily read convos. Of course chat could always happen over text or whatever but you still need to securely exchange details.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago

        I think the main problem with a dating site would be the liability. You’d need really good moderation on every instance or you could get into some serious trouble.

        Match gets away with it because they’ve got a huge legal team, but imagine if child sex abuse happened on a small instance run by volunteers.

  • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    17 hours ago

    I doubt I’d have the skill to write it but I’ve long thought something like Etsy could be interesting.

    I think the federated nature of the Fediverse could do well to stave off the worst of any spamming.

    But the thing I notice the most with independent sellers is that the bulk of what they’re doing is networking, generally amongst friends. Which, really, is the ideal environment for goods and services to be sold.

    But, since capitalism always demands the line goes up, places like Etsy inevitably abandon them and making their sites encouraging of that kind of interpersonal connecting in favor of entities which can mass churn products out.

    Setting up shops in the fediverse would allow people to easily host their own shops (and not be reliant on the infrastructure of, say, Etsy) and boosting would organically encourage a web of trust since their friend is essentially saying, “I know this person; they’re good.” You could even have the code autotag listings with a hashtag so people can filter out those types of posts, if they don’t want to.

    Not sure how you’d handle federation when you first spin up an instance but, still, more alternatives are better than less, I expect.

    I dunno; I think it’d be interesting.