What Major Social Media Platforms Would You Like To See Federated Alternatives To That Don't Exist Yet? - Lemmy

Pretty much in the title. Maybe you wouldn’t even use it, but would like to simply see it exist for the sake of having a federated alternative.

For me, it’d be the following:

  • LinkedIn
  • Meetup
  • Tiktok

I am on the first two, but would prefer a federated alternative. I’m not on Tiktok, but would like to see a federated alternative.

I’ll admit these might not be a good idea. But as a thought experiment, I’d be curious about the community weigh in on what you all think this might look like.

alansuspect,

The original MySpace

demesisx,
@demesisx@infosec.pub avatar

Shopify.

exocrinous,

I want a federated Discord alternative that has video streaming and pluralkit. None of my friends will use Matrix because it doesn’t have plural accessibility features

FluorideMind,

Damn, no myspace? That would be perfect for federation.

kemsat,

None. I’d like them all to stay away in their own walled gardens. If I want to interact with them, I will, otherwise they can go away.

yamanii,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

Probably a chan type, I miss having anonimity but I don’t miss the nazism.

mateodelarioja,
@mateodelarioja@lemmynsfw.com avatar

Flickr

Chakravanti,

Archetyp

PlasterAnalyst,

BGG math trades, but for anything and everything.

RizzRustbolt,

Tumblr ;p

spacemanspiffy,

Gitlab. It isn’t a social network but federating instances could be really powerful if done right.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Don’t think we could get something as fully featured as GitLab to be federated but a semi-social and distributed code host would be cool. I think there are such things on Tor or I2P networks.

diaruemnus,

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/6468

Rikj000,
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

There’s Forgejo :)

forgejo.org

AnnaPlusPlus,

I think Gitea is working on this, but I have no idea what the current status is

diaruemnus,

GitLab is working on federation last I checked.

bluGill,
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Facebook. The part where I can share pictures of my kids withethe grandparents, without all the other things facebook does. The important part is if I don't know you, then you can't see the pictures as they are private.

ProdigalFrog,

I think Facebook already has a federated alternative with Friendica.

PlasterAnalyst,

This is called a group chat/ text

IgnisAvem,
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I miss being able to just see updates from my friends when going on Facebook instead of millions of suggested posts and ads

Asudox,
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    z3rOR0ne,
    @z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml avatar

    To have a federated alternative to Tik Tok. It’s that simple. I guess a bit deeper would be to peel users off of Tik Tok to have a more privacy respecting, decentralized alternative.

    TrickDacy,

    I’m fucking out of here.

    What

    electro1,
    @electro1@infosec.pub avatar

    Pinterest, their recommendation algorithm is so good , and scary the more you learn about tech and how things can be used against you, it’s impossible to take advantage of that service without letting it learn more about you ( based on your saved pins and interactions ), it’s just how it works, and it works it’s just there’s no transparency or ethics involved, they sell your data

    So a FOSS alternative would be awesome, there’s Pinry but it’s self hosted

    KpntAutismus,

    youtube would be a big one.

    big creators could run a bot which just uploads their videos on it.

    although monetization would be a difficult one, FOSS users aren’t fond of subscriptions. (at least that’s my impression)

    made even worse by the insane costs of video hosting/streaming.

    teolan,
    @teolan@lemmy.world avatar

    For youtube there is peertube. A big instance it TilVids. It integrates very well with Mastodon!

    It supports videos and live streaming, and uses webtorrent (bittorrent over webrtc) to reduce the bandwidth costs of the server.

    KpntAutismus,

    I always thought of it as one of those alternative youtube-frontends. awesome if it continues to grow and gain larger creators.

    Harbinger01173430,

    Is there any way to be able to search in all peertube instances at once in the search bar like in Lemmy, rather than having to access each instance separately?

    teolan,
    @teolan@lemmy.world avatar

    sepiasearch.org

    RobotToaster,
    @RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

    Federation and search have always seemed a little wonky with peertube.

    A_Very_Big_Fan,

    I had a group of my friends debating me saying federated YouTube would never work. They said it’d be too much server space to ever be feasible without being centralized by someone as big as Alphabet, yet here it is lol

    RainfallSonata,

    Federated YouTube:
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

    PlasterAnalyst,

    P2P would work well for this. It would greatly reduce the hosting costs and allow users to support their favorite creators.

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