I'm excited to show off #Atlas - a social mapping server for the #Fediverse.
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@computersandblues @thisismissem
Half finished thoughts are the best!
And, I know I'm dipping into some choppy waters here, but I think "consent" relates to what content the server wants to share, and not consent of the "property/location owner."
I recognize there's potential for abuse (i.e. doxxing someone) but that exists outside of a mapping app, too.
But there's also cool use cases for non-consensual digital graffiti.. something in the spirit of:
https://observer.com/2025/10/artists-indigenous-ar-intervention-met-american-wing/
benpate@mastodon.social there's multiple levels of consent. If you create a post with me mentioned in it with my location, I should probably have to accept that post for me to be mentioned in it. Otherwise someone can see me out and about, and create a post without me knowing that gives other people my location.
Hence, to tag other people at a location, they should have to accept that tag:
- Allow anyone to tag me at locations (potentially unsafe)
- Allow my followers to tag me at locations
- Allow my following to tag me at locations
- Allow this specific collection of Actors to tag me at locations
- Don't allow anyone to tag me at locations.
This could be achieved through an interaction policy on the Actor (though that's not yet a thing? I think interaction policies in GTS are only on Notes/objects)
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@ddlyh Cool. And thank you. I'll check it out. I can't really compare features until I've done the class reading --but Atlas is pretty bare-bones right now, so I'll have a lot of catching up to do for anything that's already out there.
The good thing is that Atlas is an empty slate, and we can make it do whatever we need.
So, for favorites: is this to mark locations in your inbox as "favorite" locations to review later?
What are the important things we should put into this app?
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I'm expecting this kind of street-level annotation to have lots of uses, from groups of friends replicating #FourSquare, to communities organizing events, or citizen #Journalists recording what's going on in their neighborhood.
Please share this with anyone who might benefit from sharing location notes online. It's time for me to start collecting some needs from real-world users.
@benpate @yala
Great idea ! My first reaction is : why not integrate it in @mobilizon ? That should be useful at the same time for their normal calendar of events and for conversations about discoveries on their system. -
@benpate @yala
Great idea ! My first reaction is : why not integrate it in @mobilizon ? That should be useful at the same time for their normal calendar of events and for conversations about discoveries on their system.This should integrate WITH @mobilizon very nicely. I'll need to verify, but Emissary should be able to index events in Mobilizon easily - if the server owner chooses. I think this is probably what you mean?
On a technology level, this uses a completely different technology and language that can't just be written into an existing app like Mobilizon.
Fortunately, the PROTOCOL matters, not the LANGUAGE, so we should be able to work together over ActivityPub.
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Found it here: https://codeberg.org/openEngiadina/geopub
I'm checking it out now. Thanks for the link!
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Found it here: https://codeberg.org/openEngiadina/geopub
I'm checking it out now. Thanks for the link!
@benpate
Hey Ben,
just for reference, this was initially planned in AP …
pukkamustard made a Talk in the first official ActivityPub Conf, I organized in 2019 i Prague. We have a video channel in peertube https://conf.tube/c/apconf_channel/videos - you should find it there.
Re. todays team meeting we talked mainly about how to integrate Public Transport from GTFS feeds, like https://transitous.org/ - anyway.
In the model which I described for federated geocoding, the difference to geopub is that geoohashes are ActivityPub Collections.
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@benpate
Hey Ben,
just for reference, this was initially planned in AP …
pukkamustard made a Talk in the first official ActivityPub Conf, I organized in 2019 i Prague. We have a video channel in peertube https://conf.tube/c/apconf_channel/videos - you should find it there.
Re. todays team meeting we talked mainly about how to integrate Public Transport from GTFS feeds, like https://transitous.org/ - anyway.
In the model which I described for federated geocoding, the difference to geopub is that geoohashes are ActivityPub Collections.
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@thisismissem Yes, you're raising some important points that we should cover. And, it's easy to see the potential for someone to post harmful content on a map.
But I don't see it being any different from posting harmful content in any other medium they have. Witness the dude live tweeting celebrity plane locations.
Fundamentally, people *should* be able to talk about others behind their backs. Maps or not, if they post data they shouldn't, then it's probably an issue for server mods, yes?
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I read up on Interaction Policies. They're a great idea, but it looks like these are requests that only work if other servers enforce them.
I'm suspicious of things like this that can't be enforced beyond my own server because (as we've seen too many times) only the good guys will follow the rules, leaving the bad guys with an unfair advantage.
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This should integrate WITH @mobilizon very nicely. I'll need to verify, but Emissary should be able to index events in Mobilizon easily - if the server owner chooses. I think this is probably what you mean?
On a technology level, this uses a completely different technology and language that can't just be written into an existing app like Mobilizon.
Fortunately, the PROTOCOL matters, not the LANGUAGE, so we should be able to work together over ActivityPub.
@benpate @yala @mobilizon
I think I understand the insisting point of "WITH". I guess it would be really nice. So, there would be two associated posts on two different servers, those two posts being linked by some sort of threads if I don't misunderstand. -
@benpate @yala @mobilizon
I think I understand the insisting point of "WITH". I guess it would be really nice. So, there would be two associated posts on two different servers, those two posts being linked by some sort of threads if I don't misunderstand.Exactly :)
And that's really the magic of the Fediverse and ActivityPub. Right now, you're posting on a server running GotoSocial, and I'm posting on a server running Mastodon, but our conversation is seamless.
Atlas work with Mobilizon in a similar way (though a slightly different mechanism). Think of the "map" in my demo as a search page - displaying ActivityPub posts from all sites that the admins choose to index.
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kariboka@mastodon.social feel free to test NodeBB too 🙂
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it's tangentially related, but there's a book out on the history of activity pub and the drivers
https://www.moveslowlybuildbridges.com/It goes into the history of activity pubs origin and mastodon, as well as the fact that there's a whole front end portion of activity pub that no one implements
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Please test PieFed.
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Any more info on this?
From reading their FAQ if seems like an ActivityPub implementation for Micro-blogging but with other features and integration with other Fedi networks (sort of like mbin?).
A quick scan of their main public instance shows higher than average amount of far right content, but not overwhelmingy so (and the examples were from other servers, not clear if its Pleroma instances or smaller mastodon servers that get blocked on major instances).
What am I missing?
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I think all non fascist instances moved to Akkoma once it was released.
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I'm now on Loops as user spaceotter@loops.video
The new app for this social media site is slated for release some time this week, maybe Halloween 🎃, or possibly in November.
#loops #spaceotter #activitypub
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Does anyone know of a #pleroma server that isn't fascist? Pleroma has a lot of interesting stuff, but unfortunately, it also has a lot of rotten people.
I would like to think such examples exist, I have not encountered them.
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I'm writing an #article about the different implementations of #activitypub @fediverse
Which implementations would you like to see tested?
Does anyone know of a #pleroma server that isn't fascist? Pleroma has a lot of interesting stuff, but unfortunately, it also has a lot of rotten people.
