The Fediverse is growing and we have decently successful platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon. What else would you like to see?
Any big tech platform not yet replaced or maybe something new altogether? What are we missing?
The Fediverse is growing and we have decently successful platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon. What else would you like to see?
Any big tech platform not yet replaced or maybe something new altogether? What are we missing?
Something like a Mastodon+ where besides hosting just our microblog posts, each account would also have a modest amount of storage (maybe just 1 GB or even less) for a personal mini-website as part of our profile, where we could have other content in a more stable place for people to access-- for example essays, tutorials, reference info, fiction/poetry, pdfs for download, whatever someone might want to make available that isn’t just a temporary toot that quickly scrolls away into the sunset.
The account profile would have a link that opens to a personal “home page” which is just a list of links to the various files (with room for description text for each link).
For the user there could be a settings page with a template to enter “Description: link” lines for each piece of content, and buttons to upload/manage the content files. Preferably the content pages would be in markdown format and would be rendered for the browser like the way github does with readme files. That way users wouldn’t have to know how to do HTML.
This idea is because getting a domain, learning html, and creating a website is just not something most people can or want to deal with, but would still like to be able to have a place to put some of their stuff online. Another possible option might be ability to specify whether the personal mini-website is available to public, instance members, followers only, or mutuals only.
Is Hubzilla too overkill? Or haven’t you heard of it yet, or don’t you know what it’s capable of? Or do you absolutely need something that looks and feels like Mastodon?
Like, you can use Hubzilla for Twitter/Mastodon-style microblogging. And/or full-blown, fully-featured, Wordpress-level macroblogging with all bells and whistles and practically unlimited characters and unlimited images and unlimited poll options, literally within the same feed/timeline/stream. And add one or several webpages. And even tie the dynamic contents from your channel into your webpages.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Want a federated, optionally private, moderated group? Make a channel for one on your existing account. Want a CalDAV server? You have one built into any of your channels. Want a CardDAV server? You can have that, too. And so on.
https://hubzilla.org/ https://help.hubzilla.hu/en
neocities?
Neocities and such are still non-fediverse platforms, and the users would still have to know how to do html and set up a website.
The idea was that since Mastodon already has the ability to store your micro-blog posts, as well as images and clips (and has a media button to view the posts that contain them), that it would be convenient for users to also be able to store a few articles or documents as well.
I suppose to make it simpler, these other types of files could also just be attachments to posts the way media files are, and there could be a button to view the posts containing them as well. That would be a lot simpler to implement than my idea, but it would be harder for others to find them and for the user to organize and present them.