HeathenLab PieFedWhat principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?
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For example, for me, here are some things I wish to see (or would implement in my design) :
- design around ease of self-hosting. A non technical user must be able to self host easily and at a very low cost.
- Embrace content sorting and filtering algorithms, but on the client side, with optional control by the user.
- Standardize tags on all content. So many of the different ways different platforms classify or organize content can be implemented as tags, which increases interoperability between them.
- Abandon obsession with real-time-first implementations for use cases that don’t explicitly need it.
- Transferable user identity (between instances)
- User identity and authentication as separate service from social network instance
Would love to hear yours!
Fun and weird ways of using the internet socially. Fediverse has the unique opportunity that you can build anything and automatically reach people. I’d like to see people really push the idea of what a social platform looks and acts like.
Can you give examples ? That’s partly why I ask this question.
Ive got ideas in my mind but its hard to put them into realistic ideas of a site.
Misskey?
I havent found an English misskey instance so I havent been able to really try it out. At a glance it seems similar to mastodon
Most of English instance are using Misskey-fork named Sharkey.
Misskey itself has tons of unique features that Mastodon don’t have, like threaded discussion/reply, Misskey games (only two for now), custom interface, emoji reaction like Discord/Slack.
Allow people who fund the platform vote on features (that are pre approved ). who contribute more get more in return.
“time well spent”. and maximizing the “average quality of content”. maybe by allowing custom feeds. or feeds that are based only on the votes of trusted users. with governance models supporting how those feeds are managed like how KDE and GNOME nonprofits are managed. maybe vote on best post/comment of the day/week/year/decade with leaderboards for that.
Linus law of trail and error. allow people to easily extend the software .with plugins and ideally a store with reviews for addons like in firefox and chrome. making experimentation easier and safer (without risking adding a bad feature to all users of the software). vote on features implemented rating for example how satisfied you are on a scale of one to ten.
information over speculations . use A/B testing to see what works in practice. maybe use “counted statement” for example “this is useful” or “this is important” beyond lemmy and reddit upvotes and downvotes.
Right now a life changing post from world class expert and a funny cat picture with someone who spend too much time online are treated the same by the software. this should somehow change.