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?
I’d really like for PeerTube to take off, especially with how YouTube/Google seem to be escalating the war on adblockers.
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
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
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
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?
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.
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
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.
I really want to see federated wiki system, just because of how awful Fandom is and the independent wikis are all super spread out.
Ditto. And this could work really well when coupled with Lemmy, as wikis often have a comments section, that Lemmy could provide them.
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.
I’m still hoping Lemmy becomes popular.
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.
Not sure if it counts but more BookWyrm style services like IMDb, Discogs, etc.
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.
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?)
My god I would love to have some version of facebook without suggested content.
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!
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.
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.
Wow thanks, I’ll have to look into that.
Go to Feeds. You can even pin it directly to the navigation bar.
I know Mastodon is more like Twitter but, I feel like it could also replace much of Facebooks functions too?
A solid equivalent to AskReddit would be nice. I know a lot have tried but they’re all too small at this point
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.
I would love to see funkwhale or another soundcloud fedi clone become more popular.
Friendica is 13 years old, but it takes a lot to get people to leave what they’re comfortable with.
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.
more integrated events with management, so many thing happen on facebook because of event fuctionality
Hey Rev! Long time no see, hope you’ve been doing well!
i just want to see a bunch of random visualizers and shaders, generative art gifs blasted in my face like the old /r/woahdude
something to do with airlines
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.
