What Would your Perfect Social Media Platform Look Like?
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If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?
Like lemmy but we should focus on quality, not quantity. (which we already partly do)
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There must be some reason why private messaging on this platform is unencrypted. Maybe it's required by law in some countries, or it's too difficult to implement.
Lemmy is not really focused on DMs anyways. DMs are mostly used to exchange matrix chat accounts or other means of communication. So, encryption wouldn't make that much difference, really.
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One change I would make is to hide up- and downvotes for all users but keep the voting feature for post sorting. Ideally there would also be a powerful, probably AI powered content filter that you could tell what you don't want to see instead of just bluntly blocking it based on community/user/keyword.
i mean hiding votes for yourself sounds like a client-side thing. if you want to block it for everyone, lemmy already can do that, however you need to configure the server/community appropriately. so, you'd have to make your own server and configure that to not show votes. i think lemmy.blahaj.zone already disables downvotes.
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A local pub.
But cheap enough that people can hang out there for an hour or two most days without going broke.
Theres something to be said for the real world.
wrote last edited by [email protected]i think a big reason why that doesn't exist is because most people are continuously exhausted from work, so they don't have energy to bring to the bar anyways.
We would first have to have an end to full-time employment (i.e. end of economic growth combined with implementing UBI) before we could have free time and energy to dedicate to bars again, i guess.
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You just LOVE echo chambers huh?
Eh. I just deal with enough asshats IRL that I don't need them bothering me when I'm relaxing at home. It's why I enjoy Bluesky's blocklist feature.
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i think a big reason why that doesn't exist is because most people are continuously exhausted from work, so they don't have energy to bring to the bar anyways.
We would first have to have an end to full-time employment (i.e. end of economic growth combined with implementing UBI) before we could have free time and energy to dedicate to bars again, i guess.
I would actually say it's real estate costs that prevent this over here. Those keep business prices up and also make people have to work more.
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If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?
Facebook but before it turned to shit - 2008-2010 ish
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If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?
None really. I only use them as a way to stay in contact with people who I won't see regularly. That aspect is nice as all lives change and diverge but the whole corpo crap makes it meh.
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Myspace.
That era in social media was so much fun! No expectations and feature rich. +1 for Tom
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If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?
A requirement to establish intellectual capability and that would determine user privileges.
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If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?
Only me on it /s
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If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?
It would be a magical thing, it would be p2p and use relays so thin clients can connect to it, it would be 100% anonymous via onion routing and also allowing tor, but at the same time, somehow, it would handle spam (maybe by generating some cryptographic token somehow?).
It would also support storing and distributing files inside the app which includes HTML pages in a p2p IPFS fashion, so it could be used as an alternative to torrent. So like, besides communities you could host HTML pages, and those pages could contain links to films, and series and stuff.
And maybe several models of communities, so you could create a reddit/lemmy style community, or an youtube/peertube style community which would host videos.
Also DM part of the app would have very strong e2ee support groups and calls.
So I guess it would be an everything app.
And ofc it would be free both as in price and freedom.
Now I realise that the codebase would be almost impossible to maintain and such a complex program would probably have too many bugs including security bugs which would defeat the purpose. But it's an entertaining thought.
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It would be a magical thing, it would be p2p and use relays so thin clients can connect to it, it would be 100% anonymous via onion routing and also allowing tor, but at the same time, somehow, it would handle spam (maybe by generating some cryptographic token somehow?).
It would also support storing and distributing files inside the app which includes HTML pages in a p2p IPFS fashion, so it could be used as an alternative to torrent. So like, besides communities you could host HTML pages, and those pages could contain links to films, and series and stuff.
And maybe several models of communities, so you could create a reddit/lemmy style community, or an youtube/peertube style community which would host videos.
Also DM part of the app would have very strong e2ee support groups and calls.
So I guess it would be an everything app.
And ofc it would be free both as in price and freedom.
Now I realise that the codebase would be almost impossible to maintain and such a complex program would probably have too many bugs including security bugs which would defeat the purpose. But it's an entertaining thought.
100% anonymous and handle spam? Good luck. You'd probably be a multi-millionaire if you figured that one out.
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If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?
Original instagram was a lot of fun. They ruined it of course.
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100% anonymous and handle spam? Good luck. You'd probably be a multi-millionaire if you figured that one out.
Yeah, I'm know it's unrealistic, but a man can dream.
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If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?
OG twitter was it. Minimal characters so people could drone on. Subscribe to people so you get a well tailored feed. SMS based so you don’t even need data. Every evolution has made it worse.
