Exploring the idea of a decentralised social platform based on location.

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.

  • @rsolvaEnglish
    7•1 month ago

    I have been thinking about this for a while. I want an online community that encourages meet-ups and face-to-face time. No so much twitter-esq, but more event based. Maybe with a feed that shows small announcements, news and reports in a magazine style?

    It would be super cool if many towns and cities have their own online meeting place, that can also interact with neighbouring places!

    I haven’t look to much into it, but maybe @[email protected] can provide this?

    EDIT: Their webpage: https://bonfirenetworks.org/

    • Carl NewtonOPEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      Is that a matrix address? I don’t know what this is, I’ll look into it. Thanks for the feedback. It isn’t quite how I envision it but it sounds like a lot of people are in favour of local communities, and it appears we don’t have a solution on the fediverse for that yet.

      • @rsolvaEnglish
        1•1 month ago

        It is a Mastodon username, but I see that it doesn’t resolve correctly.