The Fediverse is growing and we have decently successful platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon. What else would you like to see?

Any big tech platform not yet replaced or maybe something new altogether? What are we missing?

eBay/marketplace/etsy alternative.

Any city/county/state/federal (or your countrys equivalent) running their own fediverse servers (especially Mastodon) instead of simply having a twitter handle.

I want all the twitter clones to implement a better system for how they create posts on the reddit clones than use a random hashtag.

Like, even just give them a setting to enable it instead of by default.

None of them ever understand that they're spamming us, it needs fixed at a system level

Nextdoor but less toxic

I would love to see an alternative for google maps where openstreetmap is not enough. So a system where you can post reviews, photos, menus of locations etc.

I believe Flohmarkt is a fediverse alternative.

You know how that would end up: massively slow server for 3 million a day hosted at politician X's friend.

CoMaps (which uses openstreetmaps) has the option of adding a link to a menu for restaurants, though I don't think it has reviews.

That would be neat. Able to get the info you want without the constant ads or emails from Nextdoor.

That would be neat. It would also be really nice to have some kind of community notes section where you can info on parking, best times to go, etc. Especially for tourist destinations.

My friends and neighbors and loved ones.

more outreach to, and adoption by, communities that are not specifically tech- or FOSS-focused, like crafting, parenting, fashion, home repair, or brewing, for example. gotta keep chipping away at those network effects. onboarding and ux will need to be top tier.

I don't have anything in particular myself. I pretty much get everything I need out of a forum. I guess a good discord option. One that does all the realtime needs the way a forum works for non realtime.

Not so sure I want them to self host, just based on their track record for security, but I would like them to be more visible.

Also news outlets could benefit from doing this instead of us having to rely on repost automation.

I would also love to see peertube become more competitive to YouTube. It would probably need some kind of revenue sharing model or donation integration for that though.

I'd like to see better interoperability, more bridges to other platforms, and more adoption, especially from people who claim to hate X or Elon Musk so much.

They can certainly self-host, it doesn't mean you have to join those instances. Them making those instances would be good for adoption.

Closed/private Communities akin to Discord or Whatsapp, where you could have family channels or work groups, classes and the like.

more mod standards/tools better spam /content actions/ protection across all fediverse apps where they can opt in to the standard.

identity management/bridging which really ties into the next one-

communication hub (ingest email, messaging, etc like allin1 clients)

fediverse highlights over X period (this may exist and I'm lazy/shelteres)

Movim is a federated Discord alternative, though not part of the fediverse/Activitypub, as it is based on XMPP instead. It's still a bit clunky in the UX department, but is currently the most full featured federated alternative.

Also @HubertManne@piefed.social

YouTube, obviously. And peertube is not it.

I don't know that at all. Public services where I'm at are pretty well run.

Lots if nice users posting original content.

More not leftists. Some tolerance for not left wing political views would be nice too. (the people I'm talking about will just down vote me because they are part of the intolerant left wing here. There are plenty of tolerant left wing people, but they don't get attention)

An eBay replacement. Now that they heavily track everything and anything about users-be it sellers and buyers and visitors, I no longer use it after about 25 years.. 😢

I don't do social media, and Letgo/offerup is no better. Might as well go back to Craigslist lol

There is apparently an incredible amount of manipulation and legal fights happening around these reviews on Google maps, so that is probably a minefield any independent open-source developer should avoid.

Would be even better if these things didn't use completely stupid names!! They're not clever, or hip, or even fun. Flohmarkt sounds like I'd be too embarrassed to share what it is.

More cute animals

Is just German for flea market.

Yeah I see that now after looking it up. OK that makes more sense. Still not a great alt for North America yet

Flohmarket is just the name of the software, which as another said, is the German word for flea market. I suspect the creator is German.

Anyone who self-hosts their own flohmarket instance can call their instance whatever they want.

Less "platforms", more "content in the platforms" tbh.

But quite definitively, local government agencies and municipal level agencies participating in their respective national instances. Defo reduces the dependency on Shitsites.

Names are subjective. "Youtube" makes no sense if you discard all the grab that it has now in retrospective. "Craiglist" is even worse.

If it was named something else illogical itd work, like weinerschnitzel selling no schnitzel

I do think that would be neat but wonder how payments might be integrated from a technical perspective. I also wonder if there are any regulations that would get in the way or if it would even apply to something like that.

Edit: also, if people buy something then the instance goes offline. That would be another issue to figure out.

I think this is a little bit outside of the ask, but I'd like to find a place that is both positive and relatively politically neutral.

Part of what drive me here was that the tip of the iceberg (facebook, instagram, tiktok) feel so deeply infused with ads/ai/influencers that even the content I like is likely deceitful. This bums me out and makes me not want to use social media.

Places like reddit and any of the #chans have less of this, but the baked-in politics in both make of them bum me out.

I like that Lemmy feels like it's actual people, but the politics and negativity can get to be a little much for me. I don't like to think about things I don't like, and while I can the value in being informed of things that I may need to act on, I don't think that constantly bringing up things we take for granted is helpful.

What I want to be doing is getting to build and be a part of something positive and purposeful, something people do because they're passionate, something that is so cool that the shitty stuff outside kind of pales in comparison. I've met lots of cool people on here that are that way, and I've been able to filter some of the negativity out by ignoring posts that I know will bring that out in people, but still, it would be cool to see something like that.

I hope it's as simple as finding the right instance for me.

You can name your flohmarkt instance whatever you want though.

More Lemmy, PieFed, & Mbin communities/magazines with more content, especially niche ones!

Speaking of which, I'm gonna go ahead and shamelessly plug !micromobility@lemmy.world for anyone interested in bikes, e-bikes, skateboards, scooters, motorcycles, heelies, etc.

I’m not saying they need to physically host the metal, but the addresses need to be Fediverse addresses. Like how they current do email. I have no idea if my mayors email is outlook or Gmail or whatever, the important part is it’s mayor@city.gov.

I'm just kidding, it would be great :)

I agree about the self hosted part. That part isn’t important. But an @city.mastodon server is better than an @city on twitter username. The important part is getting them off proprietary platforms.

Like how they all do email and websites now.

more people embracing/publishing original content on peertube. righ now I just can't find anything decent to sub too other than Veronica Explains. I wish more linux youtubers would also put content on peertube or just decent original content in general

Yep. That's what I meant. I want them to come to the fediverse but I don't necessarily want the city's IT admin to manage it between fighting laser printers.

Agree this would be amazing, but also difficult, since money features as security concerns.

There is Flohmarkt, which is still in early stages, but looks promising. https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt

Why not? Because of the software, or just the lack of content?

YouTube always made sense because "tube" is old slang for TV.

There's a few trickling in to mastodon

You can add websites to businesses on OSM too. It's not that common, unfortunately

Probably someone needs to start a service aimed at them, like a mastodon instance called localgov.social or something