I'm all up in the #FLOS mindset where if I have a problem I want to engineer a solution.
Problem is I have enough problems (in common with everyone) I have begun too many projects, and I don't even have spoons and life and cash flow allowing for a few.
First on my list right now is … well I'm just going to call it #FediHelper for now.
It would be a bot that would help you do everything you want on the #Fediverse.
Find people, gather community, reference/follow/bootstrap …
This creates a picture in my head of a wordcloud, or a systems-type diagram based on a fairly basic degrees-of-separation traversal from a starter account or a hashtag. Sort of like creating a starter pack, but dynamically, on-the-fly and non-persistent, based on a user request.
I mean, really, what we need here is a non-enshittified, (or disenshittified?) intelligent, semantic search that only returns pointers (functionally, recommendations) to users.
@travisfw Very much!
I feel like a lot of what people actually *need* of these digital pseudo-spaces is not exactly more content (bigger/busier feeds) or more pseudo-spaces where Yet.Another.Profile has to be created and managed and stored.
We just need to make the connections we know are here somewhere, they're just not visible in the mass crowd that we still end up being when we look outside our own nodes.
It's less a technical/product problem than cultural. As I usually find. 😆
@travisfw heh. I don’t think I was clear enough on what I meant by “technical”. The social “media” model is not the fail point because of the literal nuts-and-bolts of how to exchange our info. We can completely recreate all kinds of messaging and connectivity constructs from the protocols on up, there’s no “new” technology like supposed AI supposed “agents” needed.
The difference is in the architecture and the integration, which are dynamic systems of human intent. Not code.
Travis F W
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