For some reason my first thought was that Simpson’s episode with Itchy and Scratchy money.

On iOS at least, you can just tap the translate button.

The article is basically just a long unsubstantiated rant though.

My particular instance (sdf.org) is a pretty old-school nerdy place. So I like our local discussions. But I do like having the addition of what you propose too.

This was the original premise of app.net - a social service from years back. They built a “social backbone”. They offered you a single place where your identity and friends were housed. Other people could build apps on top of the backbone.

So you would join say a clone of Instagram and all your friends were still there. And your account still worked. Or they had a Twitter clone. Same deal. It was a single sign-on social account/identity/social graph that was separate from the apps. So things could just plug in.

Worked great. But it was a paid service. And came out right at peak Facebook so it died off.

As someone that despises MS Office, LibreOffice is even worse. All I wanted to do was create a simple database of contact info, donation info, and reservation scheduling for a small nonprofit. Something I could do in minutes in Access. Let me tell you the database part of LibreOffice SUCKS. You can’t even import csv’s! Best you can do is copy paste cells into fields and Hope all the formatting and data types work. And connecting to other external data sources is an incredible pain. I found MS Office on sale for $35 and threw LibreOffice in the trash where it belongs.

I’m using the ivory app on iOS to interact with Mastodon so I can’t say for sure. But performance has been great for me. I even pay for extra SDF services.

something tech-centric.

Might I suggest SDF? They are a long running tech community that started as public UNIX access.

AppFlowy isn’t web based?

Interesting, I feel exactly the opposite. I’m far less inclined to use a web based tool. For a backend sync/storage or admin interface to a server? Sure. But for the user interface/business logic? Let me run it locally as a native program. To each their own I guess.

I took a peek, and it looks great!

Have you ever seen that movie Don’t Look up? It’s a great watch. Even in the face of a planet destroying comet heading for earth, the conservative were all “You know what, I’m FOR all the jobs the comet will provide! Don’t look up! Don’t look up!”

Anything involving crypto needs to be nuked from orbit, just to be sure.

Railroads! Like Railroad Tycoon but more casual.

Those plus Tropico. The first one. Scratches the same itch as RCT for me.

I bought at the same time as you. Waited it out. for me, it was pretty true to the pen and paper game - which I enjoyed. And I loved the story. 10/10 for me.I rarely stick with games. I’m not much of a gamer. The only games I’ve played through start to finish are Super Mario 64, Neverwinter Nights (PC), CP2077, and Hogwarts Legacy. I tend to play sports or shooters, so it takes a lot for me to stick something out to completion.

I though about that the first time I saw Requiem for a Dream, and then suddenly thought to myself. It’s not actually mindblowing. It’s just a formulaic, cookie cutter story of a bunch of people doing drugs, I kind of think it’s really overrated from a critical standpoint now. But I did get an initial shock.

If WinNuke rings a bell. You remember the fun :-)

Open a small program. Type in the IP address. Click Nuke. Target PC immediately shuts down. While it’s rebooting you grab it’s IP address as your own so it can’t rejoin the network. Worked great in a building where every machine had a predictable fixed ip. Some good teenage mayhem.

I have Fedora on my spare laptop just for kicks. The thing that irkedme was that I had to install Gnome-Tweaks just to get basic functionality like a minimize button in windows. And Dash to Dock to be able to see the dock without backing out to the workspace view. And I still can’t figure out how to just start in workspace 1 instead of making me select a workspace on startup. It’s irritating to use before I even get going.

macOS for both work and personal (Personal M1 Mini, Work issued MBP).

I’m also late to the party. But I’ve been on SDF for ages so I always try out everything they offer.

Hey, I like that we’re throwing ideas out about how to make the fediverse better. But as someone that develops software in the enterprise and works with product management, putting on my user hat here my first question would be: What problems does this solve for? Upvotes/downvotes and moderation weed out bad actors and highlight good responses. You can paypal/venmo/zelle/even send crypto to donate to server hosts pretty easily.

Personally, I’m not interested in anything having to do with a ledger or currency. Keep web3 dead and buried where it belongs. Isn’t voting with currency for the community just a DAO? And we’ve seen how sideways those go. Not everything has to be a stock market/casino.

And more currency doesn’t mean better responses or more valuable content. We see this with money in politics, where those with the most currency get to be the loudest voices and push their agenda the most. That doesn’t mean they are pushing quality or fact.

But I am curious about starting with the problem first rather than the solution. What do we see as something needing to be addressed? What would an acceptable outcome look like? Once those are defined, then look to what solution best fits.