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    • LostCause@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      I‘m starting to come to that conclusion too, or at least I noticed it seems like a curse for myself.

  • gon@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 years ago

    Honestly, I think Lemmy could be the perfect social media*.

    The only things missing are video and user-feeds. If Lemmy could add the ability to follow users (rather than just communities) and a feed that shows you only posts from those users, that would already make it better than Instagram and Twitter/Mastodon, IMO. AFAIK videos are very hard to do, but if Lemmy could add great video support (a good video player and embeds), then it could be better than YouTube.

    *There are many things that Lemmy is trying to do right now, but not doing very well, such as direct messages and UI, so it’s not perfect by any means, but I believe it’s going in the right direction and trying to do the right things to get there. And, of course, it doesn’t have enough content or people to be infinitely browsable yet.

  • Zeth0s@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    I don’t care about who said what. It generate useless biases. I need trusted info from anonymous posters.

    It doesn’t exist and it might never exist in practice

  • flicker@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    It doesn’t exist, even in my dreams.

    The few times I became invested in a place, it was almost always text-based role-playing oriented, and I inevitably attracted a troll. I’m not tough enough to deal with that, so I leave.

    And I can’t find text-based rp anymore that isn’t either for literal children, or 100% porn. I want to actually collaborate and tell stories together, not just create an excuse to screw. Any time I think I find that, I’m proven wrong in short order, so…

  • soulifix@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    It’d have no karma system, so there’d be nobody to say or do things to artificially inflate votes.

    There’d be subcommunities but they’d be decentralized from eachother so that there is no overlap. There’d be a central hub for you to navigate with that’ll take you to where you want to go.

    There would be a focus on privacy for sensitive communities. Like for example, if there’s a mental health or depression community, any outside view would be blurred and you’d be unable to interact with the community unless you’re registered and proved a set of credentials so that you’re not there just to gather ammo on some people or risk being problematic for the sake of the community.

    There wouldn’t be a thing like on Reddit where, if you delete something, you can see it again through archives. Once it’s deleted, it’s gone, out of sight and out of mind.

    And unlike Reddit, I’d prevent the abuse of alt accounts by actually installing verification systems through registering. It’s amazing how ignorant they’ve been on their registration system.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    Something akin to what Nintendo had in the Wii and Wii U days. Where interactions are very limited. Anything else only devolves over time.

  • WalkableProgrammer@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Personally I try to make my social media about the locals in my city. I know that this have been attempted to do this before but something that is catered for communities but doesn’t turn into the citizen app

    • voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      There’s Nextdoor for neighborhoods, but it’s a hellhole. You have no idea how many racist busybodies are living around you.

  • zikk_transport2@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Basically Lemmy, except:

    1. It has decentralized accounts, or ability to manyally setup sync up to 5 instances, so instance downtime wouldn’t impact user.
    2. Ability to upload videos, or some kind of close integration to “video fediverse” of some sort purelly for uploading videos. Peertube is not this.
  • voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago
    1. Decentralized
    2. Open source code
    3. Federates with other services
    4. You can easily determine what you’re sharing with whom (Diaspora’s aspects or Google+'s circles)
    5. You can easily download all your data if you want to leave
    6. Minimal but responsive and attractive UI
    7. Accessibility features (i.e. you can add alt text when you post an image)

    Diaspora fits most of these, but I think that (early) Google+ had a better UI.

  • BitsAndBites@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I saw something that resonated with me the other day talking about social media vs social networking that resonated with me.

    It stated something along the lines of Social Media being just that published media. Always having a spin to it or doing it for the likes.

    Social Networking on the other hand would be more about connecting with people over similar interests.

    That’s why I only used reddit before and now have hopped to Lemmy. I’m interested in finding out more about the fediverse because it sounds like it has a lot of potential solutions to things that kept me away from Facebook and Twitter.