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

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.

  • Rimu
    6•7 months 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.

    • Carl NewtonOP
      2•7 months 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