Ideally on a platform similar to Gmail in its decentralized nature but connected to the fediverse and accessable through the main fediverse website as well.

We could allow for duplicate username with a unique 10 digit code identifier allowing you to adjust your privacy settings for each platform.

When I say centralization I don’t mean letting a few control the many. This is what I mean.

1. Figure out what the alternatives are for these sites we don’t need several Twitter alternatives.

2. Each site needs a front page, Accessible on the Fediverse front page. This allows people to easily make an account.

3. There should be one main site which will be the largest instance, people can edit the UI to feel how they like, but we need to allow communities to grow big.

4. To safe guard against point 3, fund the sites with 100s or thousands of co-equal owners. Say you get 5K people donating $5 a week to each site, they each get 1 stock or piece of the “company” and now it prevents a reddit or twitter situation.

5. The final thing, we need Fediverse user accounts, where once you make an account on 1 site you are automatically signed up to all of them and anyone can follow/subscribe and follow on all platforms, leading to a more cohesive biome

There is going to need to be some centralization of some form for this to work. The fediverse is a mess right now but its such a good idea.

While I can see why people might prefer it that way, we are preventing communities from growing and allowing people to find communities who might want to switch from Reddit. If you prefer the UI of one to another now you have to create a brand new community which is going to take time to fill. I use old.lemmy.world because I like the old reddit UI

Reddit started in 2005 and actually used bots to give the illusion of activity before it got big, it was a place for communities to have a hub and explore others when nothing like it had existed. Lemmy doesn’t have that luxury people who don’t like reddit for 1 reason or another will go to Lemmy if they know it exists.

The rich pretend they’re all powerful but really they have a much less secure money source. Where as we know our money is ours the rich can lose everything like that. Elon could go broke in a single day he’s on his way out of the billionaire club because now everyone hates him

Unless peertube has a way to properly monetize and at a much higher rate it’s not beating YouTube which in conjunction will sponsors and patreon is doing great for creators. pixelfed has potential

Lemmy.com Mastodon.com … If those were the front pages that curated the top 25 posts and top 25 sub groups in the last 24 hours and it was a space where you could search for the groups you fit into or are interested in. No more confusing mess.

I know but having a reddit style front page or trending like Twitter would look more engagefull.

Just to be clear each site, Lemmy, Mastodon… Would have it’s own front page under this idea.

A group of people who would all need to agree before action, a mini government of sorts, maybe elected idk but its the only way to gain a real foothold. The people running it are only supposed to act if illegal activity is going on and they are contacted by authorities in the appropriate jurisdiction.

That can be worked out, have power shared by say 10 people who have to agree to any changes they make to it. or use AI (I know not ideal).