The services I think is best suited for federation next in my opinion is Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange. It’s a site aimed at programmers, so a larger percentage of the target userbase cares about FOSS and open standards. It has shit tons of moderation problems which SO is trying to solve by democratizing itself to some extent via meta stack exchange and the SO elections and surveys, but true democratization by letting people hosts their own instances of SO seems infintely superior to their attempts. Being able to have different SO instances cater towards different audiances, a more beginner friendly SO, an SO that really wants to avoid redundant questions, etc. Also having a way in which multiple different qa sites can talk to each other would make finding solutions so much easier. IDK it seems like such a no brainer to me.

Don’t forget YaCy, a libre decentralised search engine, I think that’s the most important project of all. Just understand how much trust we put on search engines then realise how dangerous they are if proprietary

This is getting me excited about technology again - it feels like there’s path out of the Panopticon. I’m in the process of moving from Mac / macOS to a Purism / Linux / BSD laptop. I went from using the Apple Keychain to Bitwarden. Plex has been replaced by Jellyfin. I got rid of Facebook a long time ago, but am moving from Instagram to Pixelfed.

I seem to have some infinite loading bugs on Lemmy on iOS at the moment, but the chapo.chat instance is working really well. Anyway, I’m loving all these federated / open source solutions and it’s getting to the point where I can totally ditch a lot of the capitalist crap.

Here’s my wishlist for the future:

• A federated streaming platform to replace Twitch

• Some sort of FOSS service for meeting new people, à la OkCupid