i see a lot of news about australian politics, news of seattle, darmstadt, brazil, … all places where i don’t live, where the posts aren’t relevant to me. it would be cool to be able to tag posts/communities with a geographical location so i can easily filter which posts are / aren’t probably relevant to me. in one setting in my profile, instead of having to block each community individually (there’s hundreds of them at this point)
I wanted to build an entire social network that was based on that a decade ago.
the globe would be segmented into “tiles” and you could see activity in that tile. each user would have their own smaller tile that would be used to gather posts within their bounds, so in essence you could see a customized view if you were between 2-6 other tiles.
I wanted to go further and allow paid services to post information across multiple tiles. for example, if you had a product and wanted to target the whole world, you’d have to pay the fee for each tile in the entire world. of course you could still filter them out and such.
businesses could purchase their own tile where you could see things like how busy they are, menus, reviews, etc. this was particularly interesting for places like art museums where I wanted users to be able to see more information about displays and be able to have discussions about them within the community.
I had high hopes for it.
and then trump won his first term and I stopped working on it because I lost all motivation.
edit: tbh, lemmy and federation social networks in general have given me some small motivation but nothing more than thinking about how awesome it would have been. I would have been done with it by now if I had continued.