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Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? (carlnewton.github.io)
submitted 2 years ago by carlnewton@feddit.uk to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/10422101

Over the past year or so I’ve been playing with the idea of a decentralised social platform based on your location. By putting physical location at the centre of the experience, such a platform could be used to bring communities together and provide a source of local information when travelling. Please let me know what you guys think.

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[-] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 2 years ago

Gossip protocol for instance discovery is a nice idea, I'm stealing that.

Check out what Mobilizon (a federated events platform) does to represent location in ActivityPub.

Best of luck with your project.

[-] carlnewton@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks Rimu! Steal away! I just watched a video of you demonstrating PieFed. It's good to get some positive feedback from a developer with experience in building a decentralised platform, because as of yet, I don't have that.

I'll almost certainly be using ActivityPub if and when, and I'll keep in mind this address amendment :D

[-] ildar@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

This is interesting.

Did anyone try Mobilizon to tell what's its UX from the geolocation perspective?

Thanks

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