Original instagram was a lot of fun. They ruined it of course.
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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.
Yeah, I'm know it's unrealistic, but a man can dream.
Only me on it /s
A requirement to establish intellectual capability and that would determine user privileges.
Facebook but before it turned to shit - 2008-2010 ish
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.
Like lemmy but we should focus on quality, not quantity. (which we already partly do)
It would kick me out for the next 4 hours after viewing n amounts of posts. No way to change that. You set it once and never again. No upvotes, likes or hearts either. And fucking encrypted messaging.
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.
Like if the original okCupid team had diversified into general online social interactions instead of selling to the dating monopoly. The platform tries to learn about you, not so that it can match you with advertizers, but so that it can try to give you meaningful social interactions with human beings.
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.
Real local women that are horny NOW
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.
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.
You just described most bars in Spain.
Lemmy with better block features and being able to stop receiving notifications from a comment or post you made
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.
For me, it would mainly be a blend between Tumblr and booru-style image boards, allowing users to follow people and tags, with filtering by tags and collaborative tagging. A trust-based moderation system akin to Discourse. I’d also want the ability to block tags and a Reddit-style tree-like comment system for better discussions. A nuanced voting system similar to Slashdot's could help finding quality discussions by differentiating between types of content and allowing sorting by these different types.
this was something I loved about slashdot moderation. When voting, people had to specify the reason for the vote. +1 funny, +1 insightful, +1 informative, -1 troll, -1 misleading, etc.
That way you can, for example, set in your user preferences to ignore positive votes for comedy, and put extra value on informative votes.
Then, to keep people from spamming up/down votes and to encourage them to think about their choices, they only gave out a limited number of moderation points to readers. So you’d have to choose which comments to spend your 5 points on.
Then finally, they had ‘meta moderation’ where you’d be shown a comment, and asked “would a vote of insightful be appropriate for this comment” to catch people who down-voted out of disagreement or personal vandetta. Any users who regularly mis-voted would stop receiving the ability to vote.
I don’t think this is directly applicable to a federated system, but I do think it’s one of the best-thought-out voting systems ever created for a discussion board.
edit: a couple other points i liked about it:
Comments were capped at (iirc) +5 and -1. Further votes wouldn’t change the comment’s score.
A perfected version of lemmy. With the option to follow individual user and get notified to every new post or comment they make, additionally the selection of this notification system with manual control. And, a better client hosting app for Lemmy itself. Every Lemmy hosting app I checked so far have at least one buggy optimization disadvantage/problem.
... Craigslist with no spam/scam. I'm not very social
Gaia Online allows you to lock your own threads and I think I've never ever seen that done before anywhere. It is a great self-moderation tool that I think all social media platforms should have.
I love the idea of self-moderation. Like locking certain people out from threads you've made but allow more people to post, locking it when it gets too out of hand, banning users from ever seeing your thread both logged in and logged out.
I like transparency, I like being able to see who downvoted and upvoted than just some number ticking up.
I Just think that, taking some tools from Gaia, some tools from Reddit and applying them to the Fediverse, would make the ultimate and uncontested social media platform.
It'd look like the Fediverse with a billion dollars additional R&D budget.
Lemmy, but with even more mod transparency, and better database use.
Myspace.
That era in social media was so much fun! No expectations and feature rich. +1 for Tom