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Open source robot vacuum, or home-assistant robots in general. All the options available out there are just a bunch of proprietary, patented, cloud-controlled, privacy-invading buckets running on rented software.
A website where people can propose projects that they would like to see exist, and also vote for proposals of other people.
That way we would get a good insight about what people are most interested in, and maybe the proposals with most interest would probably become actual projects.
Or not a website, just make a Lenny community for start
a project for projects?
sup dawg, heard you like projects
ahahah, It just happens to be what Iām doing right now, I donāt usually do āprojectsā so thatās kind of out of character for me.
hrm⦠maybe named something like
this_should_exist
.https://www.halfbakery.com/
Is kinda similar.
A truly decentralized and private internet with no need of government, telco and big brother oversight
are you aware of any projects that could be used as building blocks of such thing? or projects that are in any way related to this idea?
Hyperboria is using cjdns to connect local mesh networks to each other.
https://hyperboria.net/
https://projectmeshnet.github.io/
the Dat Protocol is something iāve experimented with before and it seems kind of promising
is that something similar to ZeroNet? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeroNet | https://zeronet.io/)
yeah, except without artificial scarcity
Thereās something called GNUnet, by the FSF obviously
An imageboard that isnāt filled with reactionary trash.
I mean, /b/ doesnāt have much reactionary trashā¦
It has porn instead
But an ActivityPub based image board would be lovely
some dude is working on it
https://fchan.xyz/ (source code: https://github.com/FChannel0/server)
This dude should be very worried about moderation, because the user of forum like that might not be healthy.
Honestly, thatās more complicated than I even need, though it could be cool. A centralized site using whatever vichan fork and actually good rules / active mods would be incredible.
Yeah, agreed.
BTW, in my experience, 4chan is not all trash. If you stay away from the bigger boards, your experience wonāt be that bad. But YMMV.
Itās gotten a lot worse in the past 6-7 years or so, but yeah slower boards can be kinda tolerable if youāre liberal with your filter use. Iāve been using /vr/ a bit still.
A service like letterboxd, myanimelist, and goodreads, that unifies all these mediums and more, into one single media tracking site with individual user profiles and off that, on the side, some social-networking. As of today, thereās no site for tracking ALL media, rather only many sites focused on a single medium, each with ad-hoc databases and different UI:
If Iād just like to keep track of media I consume I can just keep one big offline spreadsheet, but what I enjoy of these services is the ability to make friends with similar tastes and being introduced to amazing art through personalized recommendations, that I otherwise wouldāve never known about.
Apart of being fragmented, most of the aforementioned available media tracking services sell userās data and are proprietary. I guess Iād like to see something like bookwyrm, but with a larger scope than just books. Maybe integration with Wikidata is the only viable solution for the herculean scope of cataloguing every media release that ever existed. Not sure how this would turn out in practice, but Wikidata could benefit too, from having legions of people adding info on their favorite obscure shows.
An app that scrapes the āprintā front page of major newspapers across the world, performs sentiment analysis and shows the mood by region over time in a tidy visualisation.
Bonus if it can do historical data and obscure languages.
Some project related to free and open source cars. I love driving, and appreciate technologies like ABS, ESC, and TCS, but they always seem to come on cars that have a cell modem. I would love an enthusiast style car that runs only FOSS
Duolingo but itās maths.
Like, it teaches you all of maths from stuff as simple as small addition all the way up to complicated things like calculus and integration. It would have problem generators that keep feeding you practice questions until you can do it all from heart.
Iād call the app āEulerā, after the prolific mathematician.
This would be fantastic, although as a maths student myself I would want a mix of human-written and automatically-generated problems (since automatic ones are severely limited in scope and routine problems are rarely done in any quantity at high level).
If it also integrated with (an) Interactive Theorem Prover(s) to allow leaners to write proofs which are computer-checked that would be incredible.
Iāve actually been meaning to start this project myself for around 2 years but the barrier for me is web development, Iām a competent Python programmer so I reckon I have a chance with the backend but I have literally 0 ability in UI/frontend design and frontend development.
If anyone considers themselves mildy competent (post-beginner) level at frontend web development and wants to chat about this on matrix Iām all ears.
Do you know about Project Euler? https://projecteuler.net/
It contains a mixture of math and programming problems, and a similar name to the one you propose! :-)
Khan Academy has something similar in their iPad app.
A fast and not too memory hungry selfhosted, decentralised chat (Matrix) client, with support for E2E-encryption and voice chat (Mumble?) integration.
Bonus points if it could have different types of āchatā rooms with different user interfaces, such as ones for āephemeralā content, such as general banter and memes. These could let their content expire after a certain time and have typing indicators and so on.
An other type of room could have a more of a forum style interface, which encourages āslowā chat with more lengthy and content-rich posts. It could remove typing indicators and not automatically display new messages to encourage people writing their thoughts out in one message, instead of feeling pressured to send their messages as quickly as possible.
Basically an all in one application for communities but FLOSS. I donāt necessarily think an all-in-one community application is needed, but Discord proves thatās what people seem to want.
Iām super excited for matrixās new server, dendrite.
A FOSS Music app thatās as good as Musicolet. I got too used to its queue system that now I canāt use any other music app that does it the more ātraditionalā way. Also multi-select, menus, options and search are just too well done in this app. Literally the best IMO.
The fact that it does so much and is still ad-free and mostly donation-based (iirc) also always makes me reconsider if going full-FOSS is actually worth it at all. It just feels like it was built with so much care⦠Similar to other non-FOSS apps I used to use.
I guess not everything thatās proprietary sucks
Ever tried emby? Hits in the good spot. itās the open-source alternative to spotify. understandably some features of their google play app are subscription only. It isnāt cheap maintaining apps in the commercial eco-system.
Much better to recommend Jellyfin instead of Emby.
Navidrome is also an excellent music server thatās very fast and lightweight with great support from multiple mobile apps
A massive news aggregator that uses AI to be able to categorize news from all around the world in a way that allows one to filter through news articles with specific biases. This would make it easier to get a more balanced picture of world events, and would be an excellent research tool to study propaganda.
Iād like to see an open source foundation that designs 3D printable tablet cases, and publishes the files, along with instructions for building open source tablets based off of single board computers (ie Raspberry Pi, Pine, etc) and available existing components (ie touch screens, batteries, etc)āsimilar to what Zynthian.org has done for musical devices.
Anarchist run instance of Lemmy.
But I guess you mean open-source software project?
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Distributed social network based on IPFS/IPLD.
Hmm, honestly a new kind of decentralized social media. most of what exists now are just alternatives. if a unique social media came out of nowhere from the fediverse It would gain alot of traction. (not just because Itās decentralized but because It offers something different)
social media has gamified elements, and often times games are similar, but not quite there yet. in conclusion the easiest unique thing to make is a fully gamified social media app. we have levels instead of followers, and we gain XPs for every follow, like, comment, etc. whatever game-like elements can be added here in the concept but I would guess older people might get embarrassed if we go off a bit like making a ā2D room user interfaceā and ā2D avatarsā or even pokemon worlds or whatever.
The technology you need for this is coming to a Fediverse near you :D
Christopher Lemmer Webber, activitypub spec co-author has plans to create Fantasary as part of Spritely Project. It is a proof-of-concept, and based on this technology all kinds of games you can imagine come within reach of any fedi developer.
Iām so excited, Iām glad that Itās finally happening.
Thereās already some other game-like stuff happening on Fedi. Like Immers Space with federated 3D virtual worlds.
WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA. ARE YOU KIDDING NOW??
doesnāt Misskey have like a virtual room thing?
never heard about it, what is that?
idk, i just saw a couple of references to it on their English-language homepage. thereās a page for it in the docs, but i canāt read Japanese
Iād be really interested in seeing how something like that plays out.