email

Email is the original federated service. It's the way you explain the fediverse to newbies.

Ethnical LinkedIn alternative

i want something that was reddit circa 2007-2013.

lots of nerdy cool stuff without the politics.

lemmy is too politics and not enough nerdy stuff.

I would like something like nostr for user accounts so that you could just go to any federation thing and be on it but I would like every federated thing to have a config tab combined with something like trust cafe where you can rate everything and your view would be based on your own private ratings (I don't think they are private in trustcafe. make make public private a user option) and then cap it off with as much configuration and more that piefed has to allow for configuring your feed.

I want something to get my wife off Pinterest.

A fediverse with people?

tbh the main thing I'm missing from the existing fedi platforms is just generally the population and specifically my networks - why I still regularly visit Reddit, Facebook and Discord :/

Maybe an upgraded mBin is what I'd prefer?

I'd like to have a platform that can read as many different Fediverse platforms as possible. The three main Forumverse platforms can interact with Pixelfed and Mastodon and whatnot, but that could be made work a bit better still. This is merely a matter of development resources. There are platforms that can do what I wish for, but all of them have their cons:

• mBin supports having both Forumverse communities (or, "magazines", as mBin calls them) and Mastodon posts in the same feed. I really like that! But, it doesn't support all of Mastodon's features, such as quote posts. At the same time, mBin is also lacking in its support of PieFed/Lemmy posts and comments: It is especially annoying to me that it doesn't show images in comments, but replaces them with links I need to click in order to see the image alone and then press the browser's back button to see the comment itself - sans the image again, of course. And also, mBin does not support polls, mBin does not support Flairs, etc. But missing the images in comments is a deal breaker for me, when it comes to Forumverse comments. And not supporting quote posts is a deal breaker regarding Mastodon compatibility.
• PieFed is planning to support Mastodon posts "sometime in the future, soonish". It was originally planned for early 2026, but it's gotten pushed down the priority list and probably won't happen during 2027.
• Friendica can kind of do what I want, but its UI is incredibly complex to actually use. And it does not properly show Forumverse communities in the same feed where it shows everything else. And I really do not understand why the hell not. But also, when a user interface is as randomly built as that of Friendica, usually also the backend behind it is a tangled mess - this means, I don't really trust the data security of Friendica. With that kind of spaghetti UI design, it's likely to also have bugs that enable taking over people's user accounts. And also, I don't like it how Friendica forces me to @tag people in every comment that I write under Forumverse posts. Nor that it doesn't even show all comments!

So, give me a platform that supports as many different Fediverse platforms at once as possible, and does that so that any new features of any platforms will be supported within two months of them having appeared on some platform. And give that a simple clean UI that allows me to blend microblog toots and Forumverse posts in one unified feed. I believe that would get a lot of people to move from Fecesbook to the Fediverse. And that would make the world a tad bit more democratic.

(And for any devs: I know I'm asking for much here! What I'd like to see would take an incredible amount of programming resources. Especially the part where I'd wish for any new features invented by devs of other platforms to be implemented only a couple months after their original appearance elsewhere. But, this is a post about what would be ideal, not so much about what would be realistically possible. But maaaaybe, maybe if a more inviting attitude to attracting as many new capable programmers as possible would be used on some platform, something like what I dream of could become reality? You'd need a core group deciding what gets implemented and a very large group of mindless programmer monkeys and graphical design monkeys who would do the actual work of turning the ideas into reality. Now all main platforms - PieFed, Lemmy, mBin and Mastodon - are programmed by closed inner circles that want everyone to have a good grasp of the whole project, instead of anyone actively searching for any new capable hands to delegate parts of the programming to.

Letterboxd, and to an extent Goodreads.

I just spent a solid chunk of time importing and correcting various accounts to NeoDB and Bookwyrm and they are both petty frustrating to use, especially with how much content is missing, mislabeled, or duplicated. Plus, they don't seem to federate with each other (understandable, in so far as very few parts of the Fediverse actually federate well together [unlike, perhaps, Mastodon and mbin]) or even support exporting/importing data from each other.

Facebook but old school bbs that you self-host on a raspberry pi and every message is encrypted and you can only read it if the poster included you in the recipients.

So that you only see posts from the friends and family members (or other accounts if you are into that) who you follow.

Just a pull based community and not a single push notification in sight.

one that is similar to indeed forums/ glassdoor reviews which allows to segregate fields, jobs, or certain areas of the industry by category, but without the astroturfing and shutting down, the only problem is getting a huge userbase to use it.

I don't mean to argue with you on your idea, but YouTube shorts, Instagram reels, and tiktok are the same thing. Loops basically is just that. The only difference I can think of (aside from maybe technical behind the scenes things in how each company did it) are the communities and content.

Is that what you want? Loops to just be more like shorts than tiktok?

A proper platform for open science. Link doi, they get referenced, be able to search by doi, either interact with a pseudonym or identify with orcid.
I have some hopes for bonfire, as they are working on an open science flavor, but I also hope it would get broadly adopted.

tumblr. tumblr's style of post is much better than twitter. there's goblin.band but it's way too small

Mastodon with conversations. Maybe I'm just on the wrong instance, or not following the right people, but it's all just posts with empty comment sections.

1. I can login using my user/pass and login to any of the instances.
2. I can up/downvote things like on lemmy/piefed.
3. I can create custom feeds for myself either mastodon style OR lemmy/piefed style with sudo algorithms.
4. I can subscribe to and fedi service and it just works.

More pornography.

the old luelinks with the links.