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:
- 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.
Gitlab. It isn’t a social network but federating instances could be really powerful if done right.
GitLab is working on federation last I checked.
There’s Forgejo :)
I think Gitea is working on this, but I have no idea what the current status is
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.
Shopify.
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
IP is still information you don’t want falling into just anyone’s hands… the issue is you don’t want a big list of people, locations, and “dating” metadata all gathered in a single place - ESPECIALLY if that information includes things like sexual orientation, and in the case of grindr, HIV status etc
The original MySpace
Flickr
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.
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?
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.
I miss being able to just see updates from my friends when going on Facebook instead of millions of suggested posts and ads
Probably a chan type, I miss having anonimity but I don’t miss the nazism.