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What Major Social Media Platforms Would You Like To See Federated Alternatives To That Don't Exist Yet? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Pretty much in the title. Maybe you wouldn't even use it, but would like to simply see it exist for the sake of having a federated alternative.

For me, it'd be the following:

LinkedIn
Meetup
Tiktok

I am on the first two, but would prefer a federated alternative. I'm not on Tiktok, but would like to see a federated alternative.

I'll admit these might not be a good idea. But as a thought experiment, I'd be curious about the community weigh in on what you all think this might look like.

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[–] feoh@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Github

All the benefits of the network effect without the crippling reliance on a single MegaCorp to keep the lights on and not turn hostile like the owners of SourceForge, Reddit, and Freenode IRC.

Would also solve a problem I'm not hearing anyone at all talk about - what happens when the Gitlab / Gittea / whatever instances projects are hosting run out of money and go dark? Those sources are lost forever.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Youre in luck. Forgeo is a well maintained, self hosted gitea fork that is federated by design.

[–] feoh@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Fantastic, I will check this out!

Now we just need to get projects to start using it and federating their source code :)

I suspect the other comment about Gitlab may have more adoption because lots of projects including some very large ones are already using that platform.