#fediverseideas — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fediverseideas, aggregated by home.social.
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Imagine if a fediverse profile had an option to add a standard license statement. One that could be linked in works posted elsewhere, to indicate;
* what the license is; CC, CC0/Public Domain, ARR, something else
* how to contact the creator about it
* how the creator likes to get attribution, including for quoting and other Fair Use
There could be a standard way of doing this, used in @peertube, @funkwhale, #BandWagon, etc
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It would be good to have a UX checklist for new fediverse devs to work though as they implement ActivityPub, and for devs of established apps to check against when doing UX reviews. Things like;
* replies to posts made in other apps federate back to the OP server
* edits to those posts federate
* searching a URI for a post or actor in other apps retrieves it
Maybe with links to implementation tips for each point. An idea for ActivityPub.rocks?
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I just thought of a way to provide a sort of group experience native to the way @Mastodon and other micro-posting apps work. Most likely this had already been thought of, but I'm going to sketch it out here just in case.
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It would be great to have ephemeral text in the compose box in fediverse apps, that vanished as soon as we tap on the box to start typing. It's default could be a friendly greeting from the developers, but each person could change it to whatever they wanted for their own app. I would put;
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I like the idea of separate fediverse web apps for posting, reading, and replies. All on subs under 1 domain, with Single Sign-On;
* Posting app has compose and post functions only. No display of posts, including your own.
* Reading app enables browsing a range of feeds, clicking on posts, and scrolling thread. Also comments on other people's posts, but not posting OPs, or browsing notifications.
* Replying app displays notifications and enables replies to those posts.
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This is a really well written essay by @trwnh;
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10590
It proposes reducing the amount of spam injected into the fediverse, by making manual mod approval of new accounts the default in all fediverse server software.
I thoroughly agree. Admins woulds still be free to use open registration, but they'd have to opt-in to the potential consequences. Not stumble into them.
This was written in 2019. Is manual approval of new accounts the default yet?
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At minimum devs need to make moderation opt-out in their fediverse software. But admins still need to be free to choose not to host certain kinds of posts in their database. How do we do both?
The answer is that if Alice chooses to turn off moderation for her account, posts from accounts or service excluded from the service she's using are loaded like websites, from the service where they were posted.
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In fact, I don't even know if it always makes sense for Home to be the default. For new accounts, it would be better for Local or Federated to be default, with the follow-all firehose introduced in the interface upon first follow. Progressive disclosure FTW!
#HatTip to @tchambers, whose recent piece on fediverse UX got me thinking along these lines
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/24/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux.html
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As a fediverse power user, I'd really like to have 2 separate feeds populated by my follows;
* Firehose; anything that someone on the service I use, including me, might find interesting.
* Home; stuff I definitely want to read on a regular basis
Is this an experience anyone else can relate to?
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Maybe my thinking is still too centralised here. Rather than trying to establish a central ID guarantor ("One ring to Rule them all"), we could make use of something like "rel me" to cross-link our identities on different services;
In such a way that searching for an email (or AP or Matrix) address on an unrelated platform, would return any account on that platform with a "rel me" link to the address I searched.
It'd need good UX design though.
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How hard would it be for a fediverse app to give me a daily or weekly notification about each of my saved drafts? So I can start a reply, decide it needs more thought, save it, and get reminded of it.
Bonus points for being able to schedule a reminder notification for each saved post. A day for this one, a week for this one, and so on.
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Gravatar, Linktree, Bento, there are all things we could incorporate into fediverse profiles. Libravatar demonstrated that this can be done in a federated way.
Imagine when you add a new fediverse account to the profile of an existing one, it offers to synchronise your avatar, other social accounts, etc between the two. Obviously you'd have the option to say no, for each item. In case you like to have different avatars for different accounts, etc.
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Just thinking about folks and organizations hosting their sites on Squarespace and similar web hosting providers.
A service like this would be a great way to help bring them into the fediverse, even if in a more limited way.
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As an example, tell us about your vision for the evolution of the fediverse. What would you love to see it looking like in a decade?
This could be vague impressions of a broad landscape, dimly glimpsed through the mists or the future. Or detailed descriptions of the UX or technical details of your dream unborn feature. Or anything in between.
(Feel free to post an edited version of the latter kind of vision in #FediverseIdeas; https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/)
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BTW how useful it would be if ...
* every journalist had a professional fediverse account, eg @[email protected]
* their current employer could redirect @[email protected] to point at @[email protected]
* people who want to follow the sports reporter at MediaCompany could always find the current one at @[email protected]* people who like a specific sports reporter could follow them at @[email protected], regardless of their current employer
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What if the fediverse had a standard set of moderation levels?
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/88
#fediverse #FediverseIdeas #moderation #TrustAndSafety #FreedomOfExpression
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Hey @smallcircles, it just occurred to me to wonder, why is Fediverse Ideas a Codeberg repo? Couldn't it just as easily be a SocialHub category, like Fediversity? Then it could then be federated over AP, using Discourse forum federation, and people could follow and reply with their fediverse accounts.
Thoughts?
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I had an idea today for an integrity FEP, laying out the ethical standards established in the early days of the fediverse. Plus any others informed by our experiences with DataFarms and other centralised platforms.
Many of these points are inspired by social web manifestos like the Franklin Street Statement. This FEP would be an update on those statements, written in the language of technical standards.
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Possible mitigation for auto-delete of posts breaking threads in progress, increasing the risk of context collapse.
Is it possible for auto-delete functions to reset the clock on deleting Alice's post, every time a new reply is posted downstream of it?
Obviously that would only work for replies the server hosting Alice's account is aware of. But that's more feature than bug. It would at least preserve full history during a lengthy back and forth between any 2 accounts.
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I really want the Fediverse Ideas repo to be an ActivityPub Actor that people can follow to get each new submission (and maybe comment?) in their fediverse feed. This would also allow us to boost ideas we like, to get more eyes on them. I guess this is just waiting for ForgeFed functionality to be folded into Forgejo and deployed on the @Codeberg instance?
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Here's another one for the #FediverseIdeas repo that I came up with last night;
An account has more than one feed level. When Alice follows Bob's account, she can choose which feed level to follow him at. Bob can promote posts to the next level, with or without editing, at the touch of a button.
https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediverse-ideas/issues/77
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A lot of the criticism of the fediverse focuses on how hard newbies find it to discover accounts to follow, posting stuff they're interested in. Despite all the downsides of recommendation algorithms, semi-random discovery is one thing people find them useful for.
Last year I came up with an idea for a separate app with a range of opt-in discovery algorithms, just for finding people to follow;
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#TechShowerThoughts: As a citizen journalist, I want mobile micro-posting apps that don't publish posts to my public feed. But do allow me to take rough notes for future posts, including media attachments, etc, and push them as drafts to the server hosting my account. So I can edit them using a device with a proper keyboard and a decent size screen, and publish them from there.
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Micro-posting (a la Mastodon) apps offer an interface optimalised for short text and image posts, which seem to work better for chatty exchanges than for fruitful long form argumentation. Yet most of us have fallen for the temptation to let casual chats become friendship-ending arguments.
What if we could tag a reply as "debate" - or the author could - and it greyed out the reply button on that post. Obviously this would be a setting that can be toggled on and off.
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Imagine the #fediverse had a hashtag dictionary, based on the existing folksonomy, that app makers could easily implement. One that did things like merge legalisation and legalization into one tagspace, searching on either as a tag gives you results from both. Or respected capitalisation, so apps didn't #NowHere into #nowhere.
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"I wonder if a new scheme idenitifying Mastodon URLs would be useful here. I initially suggested masto, but didn’t particularly like that. @byterhymer suggested fedi or ap, and while I tend to prefer ap, it might not be the best choice, either."
#RickMann, 2023
https://jetforme.org/2023/01/a-better-scheme-for-fediverse/
One for the #FediverseIdeas repo?
What about apub? It makes it clearer that what's being abbreviated is ActivityPub and as a bonus, it reads like your neighborhood watering hole ; )
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I’d like to see things developed in the fediverse that everyone comes to recognize as a core value of the network. The crowd potential is enormous. It could be big and important things, or just delightful or inspiring things. I only have a few such #FediverseIdeas now. But I bet we could find dozens.
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I just opened a Fediverse Ideas issue about distinguishing between 'reply' and 'comment';
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Silence Post
Similar to Mute Post, but a server admin can use it so that a post doesn't appear anywhere on the web pages of that server. Eg;
A reply to my post uses an offensive term in the heat of the moment. We don't want to feed the trolls by replying, but we don't want people thinking our server endorses that kind of hateful language. So the server admin clicks Silence Post, and and anyone who visits Mastodon.nzoss.nz won't see the post anywhere on the website.
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Mute Post
Clicking on it prevents a post from appearing in a thread when viewed on the web version of the server hosting my account. Eg;
A reply to my post uses an offensive term in the heat of the moment. I don't want to feed the trolls by replying, but I don't want people thinking I endorse that kind of hateful language. So I click Mute Post, and and anyone who views my account on Mastodon.nzoss.nz won't see it.