Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world z3rOR0ne @lemmy.ml 9mo ago

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.

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tinder/grindr
- grindr in particular would be tricky! the location data has to be kept safe from bulk collection and targeting, but public for limited queries
  
  it also has to update fairly quickly
  
  Maybe base it on IP, it’s not like that sort of data is private either way, and gives you a general location I feel
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.
- 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.
  
  I always thought of it as one of those alternative youtube-frontends. awesome if it continues to grow and gain larger creators.
  
  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?
  
  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
  
  Federation and search have always seemed a little wonky with peertube.
- Federated YouTube:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
- P2P would work well for this. It would greatly reduce the hosting costs and allow users to support their favorite creators.
Gitlab. It isn't a social network but federating instances could be really powerful if done right.
- There's Forgejo :)
  
  https://forgejo.org/
- 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.
  
  https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/6468
- I think Gitea is working on this, but I have no idea what the current status is
- GitLab is working on federation last I checked.
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.
- I think Facebook already has a federated alternative with Friendica.
- This is called a group chat/ text
- I miss being able to just see updates from my friends when going on Facebook instead of millions of suggested posts and ads
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
Probably a chan type, I miss having anonimity but I don't miss the nazism.
maybe to be asked in [email protected] ?
Shopify.
Damn, no myspace? That would be perfect for federation.
Flickr
Tumblr ;p
The original MySpace
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.
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