Could you all help me brainstorm something?'nDo you think there would be any use for a Federated location sharing app?

[benpate@mastodon.social]

Could you all help me brainstorm something?

Do you think there would be any use for a Federated location sharing app? Something that would let you mark an annotate locations in the world to share places of interest with your friends or to publicize things that are happening.

We could make a distributed, location-based search engine that pulls up all of the annotations within some radius.

Yes? No? I’d love to hear if this community thinks it would be valuable.

[johannab@cosocial.ca]

@benpate BEN SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT MY THIRD PLACES AGAIN!

Look, a Community Fund local to me is so desperate to find something to reconnect the online to the 3-D world again that they’ve been totally suckered by an “AI” startup that is just slapping more lipstick on chatGPT so it can a) lie to users about where to find their friends then b) deceive the users (“tell me more about the vibe you like …”) into coming up with their own data for it. FIX THIS!

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@benpate https://checkin.swf.pub/

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@benpate we have a task force in the community group, https://github.com/swicg/geosocial

You should join!

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@johannab @benpate I think @evan made a start on this with places.pub (for the locations) and I know @Edent has had thoughts in this space as well. Yes I want it. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/

[johannab@cosocial.ca]

@andypiper @benpate @evan @Edent

This is why #fediforum is so great - we need to find these and collaborate, not reinvent. Thank you!

I just got my foot in the door at the Future Cities Institute with my Third Spaces pitch, the programs coordinator sent my info to the research coordinator… fingers crossed.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@johannab @andypiper @benpate @Edent Ben, are you coming to Fediforum today?