The Fediverse is growing and we have decently successful platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon. What else would you like to see?

Any big tech platform not yet replaced or maybe something new altogether? What are we missing?

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    43 minutes ago

    OpenStreetMap is frankly about as good as a crowdsourced map can possibly be.

    And it’s always improving. Mobile apps like CoMaps let you add business information. There are also apps like Every Door, MapComplete, or SCEE, which particularly emphasize updating OSM on the go.

    There are apps for adding photos, such as Mapilary or Panoramax, which are not built into OSM, but built on top of it.

    There have been a few attempts at FOSS review projects, like lib.reviews or mangrove.reviews, although it is tricky to reach critical mass.

    Each of these are huge organizational challenges and data management challenges on their own. Without selling ads or mining data, it’s hard for me to imagine a single project that does evey part and does it well.