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 don’t consider this platform, Reddit, or Twitter social media, because there isn’t any real socializing. You don’t talk to people, or meet people, you discuss a singular (usually shallow) topic and move on. I honestly think MySpace was the height of social media and it’s all been downhill since then.