A dating site, difficult as it would be, would be great to undermine the Match.com monopoly
You mean like…
or
https://github.com/lafnlab/Amore
Seems folks are thinking about it but… getting traction for these types of projects will be the real challenge. I’m not affiliated with either. I was just curious and did a quick search.
Would definitely use something like this if it comes to fruition.
Does anything in the Fediverse have e2e encryption? Shouldn’t be hard to implement chat and a basic self advertisement, but I think even most people wouldn’t dip in their toes if any server admin could easily read convos. Of course chat could always happen over text or whatever but you still need to securely exchange details.
I think the main problem with a dating site would be the liability. You’d need really good moderation on every instance or you could get into some serious trouble.
Match gets away with it because they’ve got a huge legal team, but imagine if child sex abuse happened on a small instance run by volunteers.
I doubt I’d have the skill to write it but I’ve long thought something like Etsy could be interesting.
I think the federated nature of the Fediverse could do well to stave off the worst of any spamming.
But the thing I notice the most with independent sellers is that the bulk of what they’re doing is networking, generally amongst friends. Which, really, is the ideal environment for goods and services to be sold.
But, since capitalism always demands the line goes up, places like Etsy inevitably abandon them and making their sites encouraging of that kind of interpersonal connecting in favor of entities which can mass churn products out.
Setting up shops in the fediverse would allow people to easily host their own shops (and not be reliant on the infrastructure of, say, Etsy) and boosting would organically encourage a web of trust since their friend is essentially saying, “I know this person; they’re good.” You could even have the code autotag listings with a hashtag so people can filter out those types of posts, if they don’t want to.
Not sure how you’d handle federation when you first spin up an instance but, still, more alternatives are better than less, I expect.
I dunno; I think it’d be interesting.
Honestly, the only reason I’m still on Facebook is because of my local temple. If we could host a private group somewhere else with the same functionality, we’d jump ship in a heartbeat.
I consider it an “open source idea” but I did post something similar: https://lemmy.world/post/23359286
Is there a fediverse LinkedIn equivalent? I hate that site but certain job applications ask for it now
Somebody was working on one but not sure it’s live any more https://github.com/Flockingbird
I’ve love a federated online game. Hmm, maybe a MUD? Or some kind of sidescrolling platformer? Or a text adventure?
Shit, I bet I could code a federated text adventure based on ActivityPub. I’ve done crazier things on with Internet protocols.
Need some preem braindances, choom.
