A local pub.

But cheap enough that people can hang out there for an hour or two most days without going broke.

Theres something to be said for the real world.

It would kick me out for the next 4 hours after viewing n amounts of posts. No way to change that. You set it once and never again. No upvotes, likes or hearts either. And fucking encrypted messaging.

Lemmy with better block features and being able to stop receiving notifications from a comment or post you made

OG twitter was it. Minimal characters so people could drone on. Subscribe to people so you get a well tailored feed. SMS based so you don’t even need data. Every evolution has made it worse.

Like lemmy but we should focus on quality, not quantity. (which we already partly do)

... Craigslist with no spam/scam. I'm not very social

Facebook but before it turned to shit - 2008-2010 ish

A perfected version of lemmy. With the option to follow individual user and get notified to every new post or comment they make, additionally the selection of this notification system with manual control. And, a better client hosting app for Lemmy itself. Every Lemmy hosting app I checked so far have at least one buggy optimization disadvantage/problem.

Myspace.

Lemmy, but with even more mod transparency, and better database use.

It'd look like the Fediverse with a billion dollars additional R&D budget.

A requirement to establish intellectual capability and that would determine user privileges.

None really. I only use them as a way to stay in contact with people who I won't see regularly. That aspect is nice as all lives change and diverge but the whole corpo crap makes it meh.

It would be a magical thing, it would be p2p and use relays so thin clients can connect to it, it would be 100% anonymous via onion routing and also allowing tor, but at the same time, somehow, it would handle spam (maybe by generating some cryptographic token somehow?).

It would also support storing and distributing files inside the app which includes HTML pages in a p2p IPFS fashion, so it could be used as an alternative to torrent. So like, besides communities you could host HTML pages, and those pages could contain links to films, and series and stuff.

And maybe several models of communities, so you could create a reddit/lemmy style community, or an youtube/peertube style community which would host videos.

Also DM part of the app would have very strong e2ee support groups and calls.

So I guess it would be an everything app.

And ofc it would be free both as in price and freedom.

Now I realise that the codebase would be almost impossible to maintain and such a complex program would probably have too many bugs including security bugs which would defeat the purpose. But it's an entertaining thought.

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One change I would make is to hide up- and downvotes for all users but keep the voting feature for post sorting. Ideally there would also be a powerful, probably AI powered content filter that you could tell what you don't want to see instead of just bluntly blocking it based on community/user/keyword.

A self hosted discord copycat. Matrix just needs more time.

Original instagram was a lot of fun. They ruined it of course.