#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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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@metaflame.dev
Btw, this is why I like ATProto's labeller feature and wish the #fediverse or #Nostr had something similar.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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