I use FB because my family is on their.
My feed is almost entirely not my family, but “suggested” posts, and it made me realize I really hope something becomes popular to replace FB next and my family moves there.
What type of site do you hope becomes popular on the fediverse next?
I actually wrote a prototype for an IPFS-based FB replacement. It… kinda worked. I could get posts to share some of the time, but I reached a point where I realized I’d need to rip out a bunch of my backend and start over to fix it and I just didn’t have it in me at that time.
Since then, however, a new IPFS framework has come out that’ll replace a lot of the crappy code I’d written for interfacing with IPFS. I’m thinking of blowing off the dust and trying again.
What is up with Facebook being soooooo bad like that. Its just constant suggested shit of shitty videos and ads.
I hate myself every time I open it. But I habitually do so due to dropping Reddit and this has annoyingly become my next dopamine hit.
A federated SoundCloud would be nice, especially SC became paywalled
i just want to see a bunch of random visualizers and shaders, generative art gifs blasted in my face like the old /r/woahdude
A discogs replacement would be cool, or an etsy replacement that lets you list your wares for sale and take XMR/BTC, paypal, and all those cashapp things, etc.
I’m not really a fan of BTC becoming more wide spread. I’d prefer something more akin to GNU Taler.
Well then you don’t have to accept it, but it’s already widespread enough that it should be included, especially when privacy is less of a concern than buying drugs with XMR. I should note that the marketplace idea would be limited to legal items of course. Taler is cool, but not anonymous for both parties like XMR, I’m not saying don’t use it, but add it to the list rather than use Taler exclusively. No reason to not take multiple forms of payment and each “store” could choose what it accepts all the way from mailed cash to live chickens (figuratively, idk how that’d work logistically lol).
I should note that the marketplace idea would be limited to legal items of course.
How? There’s no way babysitting something like this to keep it to legal stuff wouldn’t be be a full-time multi-person job, and that’s before even starting to consider different legalities for different places.
