RSS is such a cool tool, and with the rise of the social web, RSS looks to be making a comeback. It would be so cool if there was a screensaver/app that could display RSS feeds in a visually-interesting way. Apple used to have this back in the days of OSX, but now the only thing I can find is Rollgator, which is fine but not exactly the most creative. Can someone build a cool tool that lets us see our RSS feeds beautifully? Trying to find something to put up on my TV during the day.

Instead of creating a platform to automatically match individual profiles, you create a platform aimed primarily at human matchmakers, but with a feature where they can send clients a form to fill out, and then they would have an easy to browse and maintain client database. It would be a platform where individual matchmakers could self-host, but similar to other spaces in fedi a lot of people would probably feel more comfortable using matchmakers hosted on larger instances. The matchmakers would advertise their own profiles locally, and if you wanted to make it really easy you could have a poster generator with the platform's logo and their name and a qr code. Instances might start free to get themselves off the ground but eventually charge the matchmakers a small fee to maintain the server (and if they don't like how much they're being charged they could move instances; you could make them be able to export their database as a .csv or something that they could keep backed up and the s

Seeing some videos online of people having frank yet cordial discussions about their personal views makes me want to have a similar experience. It can be a daunting and potentially dangerous task to get a bunch of strangers into the same location and get into heated discussions. I think it might go over better in an online Zoom-meeting type of setting. There's still the challenge of organizing the meeting, picking participants (hopefully diverse), and moderating.

If there existed a group chat platform that helped facilitate round-table talks I for one would give it a try. It'd be nice to have controls similar to Zoom but also some scripting to mute and unmute people in a rotating fashion so hopefully everyone gets "equal time".

One of the biggest benefits of Amazon IMO is it's homogeny. That is, It's ability to let you buy products from dozens of different categories, among thousands of vendors, with a unified shopping experience. For any competitor to replicate this would be a monumental task and it would probably take years to see profit. I think most of us want to see decentralization of retail and increased competition and the best way might be a decentralized shopping platform.

While not something that can easily be shoehorned into the Fediverse I think it's worth the effort to try. Sensitive info like addresses, order history, and payments would still have to be managed outside of the Fediverse, but I think it is feasible to have a federated platform that makes it easier to connect consumers with retailers.

An idea that I had, but not motivated enough to make.

A smart smoke alarm that opens the door and calls your pet with your recorded voice to go outside. Smart so that it can be set to only go off when you're away (I don't want my dogs running out every time I screw up in the kitchen.)

Everyone loves having their own music but it would be cool to also mix in local news and other current events, this what I was hoping the spotify would be but I doubt it be much better than now without someone else to copy off of

I was basically thinking of a simple browser app for Android that automatically makes its requests over a Wireguard tunnel.

I don't publicly expose a lot of my self hosted services, most are only available over a Wireguard VPN. I don't think my family could work that out, and I also don't usually keep it enabled all the time on my phone.

It doesn't have to be a fully featured browser, I'm fine for it to be the built in Android WebView or something, and just have a configurable menu of pages that can be easily visited.

I have some Android app experience from Uni, so I could maybe help out somewhat, but I feel I'm going to be in way over my head to do this alone. I'm happy to donate a little anyway.

Hello my name is James but I go by Levin and I'm working on a project called the university of utopia, a social justice program and an app; see, we would create a smartphone where the main function is the university of utopia and its app. It would pay users to share their information with the world, the goal being to unify humanity and bring world peace and people would use the app to express themselves and explore the universe. Users would gain experience for learning skills and completing all sorts of tasks like playing video games, building houses, doing chores and sharing about themselves etc. This app would fill the void that society has left with its failing schools systems and lackluster justice systems by allowing criminals to use the device that houses the app in prisons and jails. There would be all sorts of content ranging from religious manifestos, to porn, to vlogs, to anything you can think of with the idea that nobody was wrong and we all had the space to express ourselv

New York has a great gallery scene, and every Thursday you can attend gallery openings. But finding out which galleries are hosting events can be a little archaic: The only sites that list openings are really old, and they don't offer any way to subscribe (say, via RSS).

You know what would be great? A Google Calendar that's updated with all the best art gallery openings. For starters, it could source from these sites:

• ArtNet
• NewYorkArtWorld
• ArtCards.CC

Can someone make this *please *so I can subscribe to it?

Lots of news channels post their video feed online, for free, legally.

Pulling up each feed is a pain, and I don't actually want to watch all of them: I just want to see, at a glance, what each network/channel/outlet is covering, so I can get a sense of what the big story of the day is.

The feeds would all have to be on mute, obviously.

Some video feeds that could be included:

• Al jazeera
• ABC News (Australia)
• DW News
• RT News
• NBC News Now
• Sky News
• i24
• PTV (Pakistan)
• NDTV
• Press TV (Iran)
• TRT World

I know this sounds ridiculous, but AFAIK there is no way to merge two photos together on Android without using proprietary software filled with ads and trackers, or paying money. None!

What do I mean by merge? I mean: Taking one photo/image, arranging it beside another image, and exporting them as one single image.

I usually do this task on desktop, but a few times a year I have to do it on mobile, and the options there are so bad, it's shocking.

Please, someone make a FOSS app for this!

The idea would be to have a project similar to the famous wayback machine but decentralized and federated.

People could host a personal instance to save or read web pages they want to save or read later. The big difference with a project like Wallabager for example is that they could also access web pages that other instances have saved.

Lemmy's desktop experience can be a bit clunky. So was reddit's! For reddit, I would browse using the reeddit app. Could someone make a similar app for browsing Lemmy on desktop?

A password manager like bitwarden but distributed that would work in p2p to synchronize the encrypted database.

This way we don't need to install bitwarden on a server or use third party cloud applications (nextcloud) to synchronize the keepass database between our different devices

It would be nice if we could create a shortcut to the android camera to take pictures with a lower resolution.

I know I can go to the camera settings to change the settings but it's annoying because I often have to do this.

To solve the problem I had to install a second camera on which I set a low resolution, it's more convenient if I just have to take a photo note or if I plan to send it by e-mail for example.

Something like webnovel for open source short stories, but the stories are each stored as git repositories. Each repo contains the metadata (title, license, authors, etc) and the story in markdown. You could maybe use a web frontend to add a git url to the frontend to publish your story. And readers can browse and read them using the frontend which renders the markdown.

I have an example repo here: https://git.disroot.org/gitfiction/example

I wanted to make something like that using django or flask, but not sure how to store and update the repos and use databases

I think it would be cool to be able to use the smartphone's gyroscope to draw on another monitor, a bit like a tablet stylus.

And do some basic actions via simple gestures or keyboard keys.

I don't know if this already exists.

I really like static site generators like Pelican, Hugo etc... My problem is that you have to use it with command lines in a terminal and you have to remember the commands to use it which is not at all easy for a normal person, at least it's not easy for me, every time I forget the commands and so I don't use the tool.

It would be great to have a kind of graphical interface to generate your blog on your computer, and then a big send button or synchronize with your FTP server to put the article online for example. Thus, almost anyone would be able to easily use these tools, which are so much simpler and lighter to deploy than a wordpress for example.