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Twitter.
I know this is the “wrong answer” but I had always used Twitter to keep tabs on local government agencies, newspapers, reporters, restaurants, bars, events, concerts, sports teams, etc. Not to mention all the accounts that pertain to my hobby’s and interests.
I’ve used bird.makeup but it’s not reliable if it works at all. Some agencies, like our transit system and streets department, will post on one thing on their website and something else on instagram or twitter (many have stopped using twitter after the api change). RSS is fine for some things but not everything. I haven’t been using instagram for years because of advertising and the algorithmic timeline. I at least need lists.
Really, the right answer here for my needs is that all these groups need to join the fediverse. I just don’t see that happening.
Or maybe I should say I wish the “existing platform” of my city government would start their own instance.
Or maybe I should say I wish the “existing platform” of my city government would start their own instance.
Both Germany and the EU have their own Mastodon instances for official announcements, social.bund.de and social.network.europa.eu
There’s also an instance for the German public broadcasting service, ard.social
I wish more countries would do this
I know this is the “wrong answer” but I have always used Twitter to keep tabs on local government agencies, newspapers, reporters, restaurants, bars, events, concerts, sports teams, etc. Not to mention all the accounts that pertain to my hobby’s and interests.
Yes, it’s a problem. Even several open source projects use Tw(X)tter as their main outlet. A few years ago one project even used it to share an important security update! They must have posted it in their Discourse forum as well but I don’t visit that often. I stumbled upon the important post by coincidence with Nitter (Nitter is declared dead since a few months). Since then, lesson learned, I use some notification.
Really, the right answer here for my needs is that all these groups need to join the fediverse. I just don’t see that happening.
Agreed. Some people stay there because “everyone is there”, or their favorite VIPs are there, or people stay there because they think they should fight the bad things that happened to it from within :/ Sad.
Or maybe I should say I wish the “existing platform” of my city government would start their own instance.
That would be cool.Governments, at least in the country where I live in, need to make an effort to be transparent and reach out to their citizens without creating insurmountable barriers.Start an on-line petition and getting people to sign it, and share with the local government ?
yeah, it’s such a shame that people think X is the right place to share important updates.
It fucking absolutely is NOT!
Yesterday I went to look up Trakts X profile to see whether there are issues with their API. X shows posts from 2020-2023, but nothing from 2024 even though there was a tweet from 2 days ago.
X is dead and should officially be declared as such.
I don’t think it’s anywhere near dead when anyone you’d want to hear from still uses it. It’s amazing the amount of times I’m looking for an update for something and if you don’t have an X account you won’t be getting that information as it’s blocked from view without one. I still haven’t recreated an account but I’ve came close a few times or used what few nitters are left.
Meetup / events, the cultural calendar of physical events should be free from platforms! Facebook used to be good for this in its heyday, because of its wide adoption, but now they are chasing «engagement» and ad revenue, and is no longer a good tool for public, so the timelime is full of crap etc.
Strava. Sharing workouts, leader boards with friends, challenging friends on goals. Maybe even badges.
i would have the entire internet go back to being protocols instead of proprietary platforms
I’d rather we just ditch algorithms and go back to it being random/chronological feeds.
I wish algorithms were opt-in, transparent, and allowed choice (whether by choosing an algorithm over another, or customizing parameters).
If this were the case, I’d have no issue with algos.
The only thing that keeps me tied to any Meta platform is the Facebook marketplace. It is the de facto method of buying and selling used goods in a sustainable fashion.
If there was any alternative, especially a federated one, I’d switch over in a heartbeat.
Genealogy sites.
Is there even a genealogy site that is not owned by the Genealogical Mafia i.e. Ancestry? AFAIK WikiTree hasn’t sold out yet.
Booru-style Image Boards like rule34
Bruh
Second Life.
As in you don’t have to pay upkeep of a region/sim when you can host it yourself. But you can still rent/buy parcels on other user or LL hosted region/SIM. In the later scenario you would pay the hoster a regular upkeep.
There is OpenSim i think
All of em, really. I don’t see much of a reason why the vast majority of platforms wouldn’t benefit from it, except for maybe an argument around it allowing the creation of larger and larger echo chambers, but that’s probably fine as long as it’s managed to only be to a certain degree.
Craigslist / Facebook Marketplace
That’s a good one. The photomarket on reddit was the main reason I was hesitant to shut down my account. And eBay is way too expensive and unfair for sellers.
Forums, facebook groups (but not owned by meta), Letterboxd, Amazon (without amazon)
Lemmy is kinda close to forums and groups. But I do agree I prefer that format over the Reddit-like format.
4chan I guess. It doesn’t have to be 4chan specifically, I just want a federated ActivityPub image board
What is the practical difference between that and what we have here? Genuinely curious.
I don’t know, can’t really describe it, but 4chan just has a different vibe. I love Lemmy, but it’s closer to Reddit than to 4chan.
There’s already one, I don’t remember the name and is ultra dead albeit
It’s not really that fundamentally different from the idea of Lemmy, the interface is just different but the idea of having communities and posts in the communities is the same.
The thing that would be tricky and would probably have the most friction would be anonymous posting since that’s where things get really ugly regarding moderation and user conduct, since a good amount are just going to be spammers and many others will be trolls and malicious users.
True, anonymous posting is very difficult to implement safely and would probably place a huge burden on volunteer Lemmy moderators.
Yeah that would be very difficult to implement safely, and probably wouldn’t be worth the effort since the Federated model means that signing up for an account somewhere on the Fediverse is much easier already.
Anonymous posting might have been a necessary evil on the early internet before you had all these Federated servers, but nowadays having other servers fills the role of granting easier access since you can sign up to another one where that process may be easier.
The only way of anonymously posting I could imagine on a federated image board would be to use an account on some other Fediverse platform (e.g. Mastodon, Firefish, Mbin, etc.) and to have the name of the account hidden for anonymous posts. That could maybe work, idk. Would be pretty cool tho
Nebula.
The old Team Liquid forums, still the best place to discuss StarCraft
And I guess if Reddit was ActivityPub that would be good too
@ChasingEnigma@lemmy.world DeviantArt - I like separation between art, literature, and regular status updates, and the ability to group posts in your inbox into folders by who posted them. Or, more realistically, any of the various furry sites that work on a similar model and have less potential for cultural conflict.
