Fediverse

I’d love for bands, venues and event promoters to list their upcoming shows on Mastodon. But I can’t really see it happening in the immediate future, since they have to cast the broadest possible net to lure people in. I tend to go to a lot of punk / garage shows (it’s an emotional outlet, I guess) and they’re allllll advertised exclusively on Instagram, often with AI-gen flyers. To add insult to injury.

This may be self serving but if someone could maybe contact Mojang and get the Minecraft instance to be an officially recognized Social Media outlet like r/Minecraft is on Reddit, that would be peachy.

Oh and a syncable mobile app

Windows admin content. I am unfortunately cursed with the task and I'd love to be able to keep up with the patches here instead of needing reddit.

More people

A federated roaming user directory so you can have the same user at once in different aspects of the Fediverse.

More non-English communities.

The Fediverse it's pretty English-centric and there are very few communities of non-English speakers, even huge languages like Spanish with hundreds of millions of people.

Forums for long, linear discussion, like phpBB or Discourse, with good discoverability.

So Lemmy and Mastodon are mirrors of two popular forms of social media; what I think might be the next real step is innovation.

No, not a fediverse AI, something more human and "old web". A federated forum system paired with a solid fedi-search engine could do slot of good - especially with the walled gardens and AI slopfest that the surface net is becoming.

More adoption by the public

Monetization broker for a video service. Let's give Youtube a run for the money.

Hosted gaming system, card games, board games, tabletop simulator style. Maybe Minecraft java, built around self hostable servers.

E2E Encryption Communication, maybe a tightly integrated reticulum host.

Dedicated news system focused on free journalism (hard with AI and propaganda I know)

Shore up Pixelfed and Loops or Competition for them.

Some form of integrated system that ties all this stuff together, like a dashboard with all your different things. Maybe something like the homeassistant dashboard but for all your fedi services.

I'd love to see that wonderful interoperability we were all promised. It should be possible to have one identity/account that's connected to multiple services. I should be able to log in once, post some thoughts on Mastodon, share a photo on Pixelfed, and comment on a PeerTube video. Some services have tried to combine various formats with a little success, but it has been very limited, and generally broken.

eBay/marketplace/etsy alternative.

Less memes. I feel like that is all this site is now..

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.

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

Something like a Mastodon+ where besides hosting just our microblog posts, each account would also have a modest amount of storage (maybe just 1 GB or even less) for a personal mini-website as part of our profile, where we could have other content in a more stable place for people to access-- for example essays, tutorials, reference info, fiction/poetry, pdfs for download, whatever someone might want to make available that isn't just a temporary toot that quickly scrolls away into the sunset.

The account profile would have a link that opens to a personal "home page" which is just a list of links to the various files (with room for description text for each link).

For the user there could be a settings page with a template to enter "Description: link" lines for each piece of content, and buttons to upload/manage the content files. Preferably the content pages would be in markdown format and would be rendered for the browser like the way github does with readme files. That way users wouldn't have to know how to do HTML.

This idea is because getting a domain, learning html, and creating a website is just not something most people can or want to deal with, but would still like to be able to have a place to put some of their stuff online. Another possible option might be ability to specify whether the personal mini-website is available to public, instance members, followers only, or mutuals only.

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.

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

MMORPG!

Government agencies and businesses from my area. Information about local events. Everything is on Facebook 😔

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