If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?
OG twitter was it. Minimal characters so people could drone on. Subscribe to people so you get a well tailored feed. SMS based so you don’t even need data. Every evolution has made it worse.
It would be a magical thing, it would be p2p and use relays so thin clients can connect to it, it would be 100% anonymous via onion routing and also allowing tor, but at the same time, somehow, it would handle spam (maybe by generating some cryptographic token somehow?).
It would also support storing and distributing files inside the app which includes HTML pages in a p2p IPFS fashion, so it could be used as an alternative to torrent. So like, besides communities you could host HTML pages, and those pages could contain links to films, and series and stuff.
And maybe several models of communities, so you could create a reddit/lemmy style community, or an youtube/peertube style community which would host videos.
Also DM part of the app would have very strong e2ee support groups and calls.
So I guess it would be an everything app.
And ofc it would be free both as in price and freedom.
Now I realise that the codebase would be almost impossible to maintain and such a complex program would probably have too many bugs including security bugs which would defeat the purpose. But it’s an entertaining thought.
100% anonymous and handle spam? Good luck. You’d probably be a multi-millionaire if you figured that one out.
Facebook but before it turned to shit - 2008-2010 ish
Like lemmy but we should focus on quality, not quantity. (which we already partly do)
Like if the original okCupid team had diversified into general online social social interactions instead of selling to the dating monopoly. The platform tries to learn about you, not so that it can match you with advertizers, but so that it can try to give you meaningful social interactions with human beings.
One change I would make is to hide up- and downvotes for all users but keep the voting feature for post sorting. Ideally there would also be a powerful, probably AI powered content filter that you could tell what you don’t want to see instead of just bluntly blocking it based on community/user/keyword.
i mean hiding votes for yourself sounds like a client-side thing. if you want to block it for everyone, lemmy already can do that, however you need to configure the server/community appropriately. so, you’d have to make your own server and configure that to not show votes. i think lemmy.blahaj.zone already disables downvotes.
It would kick me out for the next 4 hours after viewing n amounts of posts. No way to change that. You set it once and never again. No upvotes, likes or hearts either. And fucking encrypted messaging.
There must be some reason why private messaging on this platform is unencrypted. Maybe it’s required by law in some countries, or it’s too difficult to implement.
Lemmy is not really focused on DMs anyways. DMs are mostly used to exchange matrix chat accounts or other means of communication. So, encryption wouldn’t make that much difference, really.
Lemmy with better block features and being able to stop receiving notifications from a comment or post you made
You just LOVE echo chambers huh?
Eh. I just deal with enough asshats IRL that I don’t need them bothering me when I’m relaxing at home. It’s why I enjoy Bluesky’s blocklist feature.
A perfected version of lemmy. With the option to follow individual user and get notified to every new post or comment they make, additionally the selection of this notification system with manual control. And, a better client hosting app for Lemmy itself. Every Lemmy hosting app I checked so far have at least one buggy optimization disadvantage/problem.
It’d look like the Fediverse with a billion dollars additional R&D budget.
Gaia Online allows you to lock your own threads and I think I’ve never ever seen that done before anywhere. It is a great self-moderation tool that I think all social media platforms should have.
I love the idea of self-moderation. Like locking certain people out from threads you’ve made but allow more people to post, locking it when it gets too out of hand, banning users from ever seeing your thread both logged in and logged out.
I like transparency, I like being able to see who downvoted and upvoted than just some number ticking up.
I Just think that, taking some tools from Gaia, some tools from Reddit and applying them to the Fediverse, would make the ultimate and uncontested social media platform.
Lemmy, but with even more mod transparency, and better database use.
… Craigslist with no spam/scam. I’m not very social
A local pub.
But cheap enough that people can hang out there for an hour or two most days without going broke.
Theres something to be said for the real world.
i think a big reason why that doesn’t exist is because most people are continuously exhausted from work, so they don’t have energy to bring to the bar anyways.
We would first have to have an end to full-time employment (i.e. end of economic growth combined with implementing UBI) before we could have free time and energy to dedicate to bars again, i guess.
You just described most bars in Spain.
Myspace.
That era in social media was so much fun! No expectations and feature rich. +1 for Tom
