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Four short-term wishes for Fedi

The Fediverse, a.k.a. is a name for mostly-compatible implementations of a protocol that started as ActivityPub. Mastodon is probably the most well known.

One way forward, I feel, is:

Remove the “whole known network” tab.
Instead, focus on a moderated local timeline, and a home timeline of people you’ve selected to follow (from across all of Fedi).
Make it even easier to interact with off-site posts and accounts (including “weird Fedi” like Pixelfed and Lemmy), in addition to the “paste the URL in the search box” (maybe make something like that but more specific, faster, and more reliable), maybe a browser extension or share-sheet–accessible app?
Keep trying to fight the rando weird harasso instances that plague our mentions. Maybe use tech from email? The nightmare scenario for Fedi would be an app that can churn out new, uniquely named, one-off harassing instances. Maybe we need to think of something preemptive for that scenario.

I simultaneously want each instance to feel more like a tight-knit, local community (by showing the local timeline, and having each instance have their own style of moderation) while also making it even easier to use one account to follow your favorite Lemmy groups, Pixelfed posters, and fave people from all over, to like and boost posts.

Best of both worlds.

Your own “home” timeline which is a sprawling eclectic selection of all your own faves from all over, and a local timeline that’s what’s going on in your instance right now, maybe the latter doesn’t even show boosts.

This list of four items are all my dreams for the relatively short-term horizon.

Longer term, stuff like Bonfire’s attempt to revive visibility circles is interesting. Making social media a little more social and a lot less world-readable.