Hi Fediverse, I’ve recently been interested in the ActivityPub protocol as well as the programming language Elixir. To better learn both technologies and simultaneously get a product out of it I’ve thought about making (yet another) federated social network.
The main ideas that would set it apart from other federated networks are the following.
It should be easy to use for people who are not tech savy. It should appeal to local communities, like a sports club, as a platform to organize and .
It should be a platform where communities can organise, share discussions and create events. I know many people who use Facebook primarily for this kind of functionality. I hope this could be a gateway for smaller local communities to move over to something more free and open.
Users should be able to categorize their feeds into nested lists, like traditional RSS readers. The idea is that you could subscribe to your favorite PeerTube creators in one feed, and the blogs you follow in another, even with subcategories. You might also make a feed for Lemmy communities you want to follow.
I would love to hear what thoughts you have on this.
What do you think? Do you think the fediverse is the right technology for this? Am I focusing on the right audience? Do you have comments on the attached mockup design?
I would appreciate if you shared this post across the fediverse, such that not just Lemmy users could be a part of the discussion.
For people who are interested in my project Photoview don’t worry, I love to work on that and I will continue to do so.
My biggest problem with social media is that if I follow someone, I’m not interested in seeing everything that everyone posts in my feed.
This really resonated with me, and I feel exactly the same way, especially for the fediverse since the content can be so diverse. Much like when I put on music, I often put on an Album rather than a playlist consisting of completly different genres and moods.
And I think this is a problem that hasn’t been fully solved yet on the fediverse.
I’m looking forward to pixelfed introducing groups.
I will also be following that tightly, and probably build something very close to their solution. Pixelfed will be a big inspiration for the project as their goals are much aligned with what I’m trying to achieve, but with another focus being images.
Being old school in my tastes, I prefered the old usenet format better and using a feed reader.
I have used usenet very little, I had a subscription for a short while but never got the hang of it, I might not be old enough to have caught that train. But maybe I should look more into that as a source of inspiration.
The usenet was essentially public email without all the HTML baggage. You searched for a group that interested you on public news servers. You subscribed to it and immediately interacted with people who shared your interests. The groups had a moderator to keep things on track. Typically, moderation was not a problem and I didn’t even know who the moderator was. Deja news archived the old posts and you could follow old threads to know what had been written before. Eventually, spam overtook the groups and it was too much to avoid. There were pay services, but most ISP’s had a news server and you could just follow the public groups for free.
I do very little to entice subscribers to follow me and I manually delete old posts after I felt people had time to review them and comment. I don’t want 20 years of my life online. People grow and change over time. Despite that general tendency, I’ve grown followers on Pixelfed at a faster rate than I have on most Social media sites. One person said my posts were filling up his feed and that’s why he hadn’t followed my account. That’s another reason I feel that following someone should not dump everything into your main feed. Following someone should just make it easier to access their posts. It should force it to be seen.
My song playlists had themes if I listened to one. I’ve owned a lot of albums that were 50% great songs and 50% duds. I do listen to albums if I know the album is consistent throughout.
I do like the complete randomness of Mastodon, but I have a huge blocklist that probably ties up a lot of system resources in the background. Misskey is very interesting, but I feel that some of it is broken and some of it is not very intuitive (such as expanding a thread.)
A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.
Fediverse is a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”. It is a common, informal name for a federation of social network servers whose main purpose is microblogging, the sharing of short, public messages.
This really resonated with me, and I feel exactly the same way, especially for the fediverse since the content can be so diverse. Much like when I put on music, I often put on an Album rather than a playlist consisting of completly different genres and moods.
And I think this is a problem that hasn’t been fully solved yet on the fediverse.
I will also be following that tightly, and probably build something very close to their solution. Pixelfed will be a big inspiration for the project as their goals are much aligned with what I’m trying to achieve, but with another focus being images.
I have used usenet very little, I had a subscription for a short while but never got the hang of it, I might not be old enough to have caught that train. But maybe I should look more into that as a source of inspiration.
The usenet was essentially public email without all the HTML baggage. You searched for a group that interested you on public news servers. You subscribed to it and immediately interacted with people who shared your interests. The groups had a moderator to keep things on track. Typically, moderation was not a problem and I didn’t even know who the moderator was. Deja news archived the old posts and you could follow old threads to know what had been written before. Eventually, spam overtook the groups and it was too much to avoid. There were pay services, but most ISP’s had a news server and you could just follow the public groups for free.
I do very little to entice subscribers to follow me and I manually delete old posts after I felt people had time to review them and comment. I don’t want 20 years of my life online. People grow and change over time. Despite that general tendency, I’ve grown followers on Pixelfed at a faster rate than I have on most Social media sites. One person said my posts were filling up his feed and that’s why he hadn’t followed my account. That’s another reason I feel that following someone should not dump everything into your main feed. Following someone should just make it easier to access their posts. It should force it to be seen.
My song playlists had themes if I listened to one. I’ve owned a lot of albums that were 50% great songs and 50% duds. I do listen to albums if I know the album is consistent throughout.
I do like the complete randomness of Mastodon, but I have a huge blocklist that probably ties up a lot of system resources in the background. Misskey is very interesting, but I feel that some of it is broken and some of it is not very intuitive (such as expanding a thread.)