I suspect sponsorship on the fediverse is going to be better measured through something at the point of conversion rather than user surveillance. Promo codes instead of impressions.

Recently was talking with someone and they said “fediverse and metaverse” in one breath and I was like whoa. I don’t think anyone wants to give Facebook even Meta let alone metaverse.

The two concepts share very little except the rhyme. I see the term as really up the air so I’d only use it if I wanted to confuse people.

Just found https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire which is about lending physical items and seems to be implementing ActivityPub.

Hey viktorstrate, My current operating principle is that a community is foundational to the success of a software project. Building community is therefore the first thing to focus on when starting something like this. To that end, I’m looking in your post for points around which a community could rally.

1/Easy-to use-is good, yes but it’s kind of a given for all software. Some prioritize more than others but nobody wants their stuff to be hard to use.

2/Organize, share discussions are similarly common however an event focus is more unique. Mobilizon is working on this as well but I haven’t seen that yet as a strong core problem around which the rest can be built. I think it’s better added as a feature or plugin to an existing and strong software project.

3/Lists exist in Mastodon but not nested lists. I suppose once you have more than a handful of lists, you’ll want more structure and so I think that might be a good feature, but again better added to Mastodon or a fork than something to build from scratch.

In terms of greenfield projects, I would think a TikTok-clone would be interesting. That’s heavily dependent on a mobile app with strong camera, creative and video editing editing features but it would be nice to have somewhere in the fediverse to point that fastest growing segment of social.

Getting back to community, how do you feel about the strength of the photoview community and how do you think you might improve on what was done there in this new effort?

In regards to algorithms, I always assumed there was no budget to do the extra processing and that’s probably true for the massive machine learning R&D projects that the likes of Twitter can fund, but if people really want open source algorithmic feeds then I’m sure they can be done under some computational cost.

I created Ecko, a fork of Mastodon, for the purpose of testing more adventurous ideas like this so created an issue based on this. Will be interesting to see if any code appears :)

This is the first I’ve heard of an alternate feed algorithm and it would be interesting to test. Has one been implemented anywhere yet?

“Forks and alternatives would have more visibility control than Mastodon, leading to privacy issues.” Does anyone care to expand upon this as a problem? FOSS means forks are an option but I’m missing where the privacy issues come from.