it would be cool if posts could be geo-tagged (feddit.org)

submitted 4 months ago by gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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i see a lot of news about australian politics, news of seattle, darmstadt, brazil, ... all places where i don't live, where the posts aren't relevant to me. it would be cool to be able to tag posts/communities with a geographical location so i can easily filter which posts are / aren't probably relevant to me. in one setting in my profile, instead of having to block each community individually (there's hundreds of them at this point)

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[-] carlnewton@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago

As far as Lemmy is concerned, I just joined an instance that's relevant to my location (feddit.uk). I suppose if it grew a great deal more popular than that, I could create a community there for my local county.

I should absolutely mention though that I'm still hard at work on Habitat, which is a platform for local communities, and each post has a lat/long location associated for a more hyperlocal type of interaction. It's not on the Fediverse though (though there are plans for non-Fediverse federation).