The fediverse offers an exciting alternative to centralized social media silos like Twitter and Facebook. As someone passionate about the fediverse, I think a lot about what features would make up my perfect social media platform. I’m curious what ideas other fediverse users have!
What features, functionality, and design would your dream social media platform have? Here are some of my top wishes:
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User curation and tagging - Allow users to tag and organize content instead of relying purely on titles. Improves discoverability.
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Advanced search - Support complex search queries with boolean operators, field filters, date ranges etc. Makes finding relevant content easy.
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Custom feeds - Users can create customized feeds to follow or hide specific users, communities, instances, keywords, etc
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Multi-criteria ratings - Beyond likes, allow rating content on multiple criteria to allow sorting by quality and not just entertainment value.
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Affinity system - Connect users with similar interests. Recommend content based on affinity.
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User trust levels - Grant privileges based on user reputation to lessen reliance on centralized moderation.
My Dream Social Media Platform
Those are just a few of my ideas. What features would your perfect, decentralized social network have? How could we improve on what the fediverse currently offers? Let’s dream big about the future of social media!
I’m cool with basically Lemmy but more polished UI, hidden/obfuscated vote counts and better mod tools. User votes is an OK way to sort by quality but without heavy moderation will always favor low-effort over longform content because it can be consumed at a much higher pace.
Don’t much care for image or video posts, user profiles, karma etc. Would certainly never want any kind of visible ratings. Basically I’m pro anything that enables thoughtful, varied discussion and anti anything that encourages quick, easy content consumption.