Aren’t immortal wizards supposed to change their identity every 20 years or so?

I couldn’t quite follow all that. TLDR?

Thanks, I did not realize. I just did a quick search because I remembered an app but couldn’t remember the name. Must be something else.

Edit: Maybe it was mapillary after all. They were acquired by Meta in 2020. A better option looks to be KartaView.

I’d love to see that wonderful interoperability we were all promised. It should be possible to have one identity/account that’s connected to multiple services. I should be able to log in once, post some thoughts on Mastodon, share a photo on Pixelfed, and comment on a PeerTube video. Some services have tried to combine various formats with a little success, but it has been very limited, and generally broken.

Not the one you’re replying to, but I’d generally agree.

If someone wants to post on Peertube, they basically either have to have the time, funding, and know-how to self-host, or arrive with an established audience. Someone with great creative talent does not necessarily want to run an expensive and complicated software project. Someone who has an established audience has very little incentive to jump to federation.

PeerTube is improving slowly. There are now a few instances with open registration, which could mean more fertile ground for good content. We shall see.

Absolutely. The organizations that have the most to gain and the most capability to manage instances are

• local governments,
• news publishers/journalists, and
• Universities

These are groups that have unique publishing and legal mandates that already have the IT departments and adequate sway to compel users. They already host email and websites, and regularly come into conflict with corporate messaging platforms.

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.

Interesting … It looks pretty active. A few dozen instances, mainly in Germany. This has real potential.

Unfortunately the only lesson will be “Woman superhero no make money.”

“As harmless as a kitten”

Pretty much 50% of the reason I started selfhosting

Don’t understand the downvotes at all

Yep. It is a time-suck to see an interesting new project only to check it out and find out it’s AI slop. For some apps, it doesn’t bother me… They may not require the access or stability of critical apps. Other times, I just can’t trust a slop app, and it would be very helpful to know which it is in advance.

A centaur is a human that can do more than an ordinary person… A person plus a horse is able to do more. Making our tools work for us allows us to do more.

A reverse centaur is when our tools are using us instead. Rather than a driver using a computer to navigate more efficiently, Amazon drivers are more like computers that use humans as a component to drive more efficiently than the computer itself could. Not great for the human.

Yes, by “most any” of course I mean that you can find a device with almost any spec or form factor you choose. If you like pixel, you can choose lineage or graphene. If you have an old phone lying around - with hundreds supported by lineage - there’s a good chance it works.

This can easily be achieved with most any Android phone.

• Switch to a degoogled OS like GrapheneOS or LineageOS
• Install a minimalist launcher (there are dozens)
• install CoMaps for private gps and navigation
• use whatever chromium browser comes on the phone or install a privacy browser like Firefox (again, there are dozens)
• add a notes app (there are dozens)

There are also mesh systems that are worth looking into, if it’s possible to get access to the hardware for communication that is potentially harder for the government to track.

I’m not sure of the details about the situation in Iran, but from my understanding, it seems that it would be much safer to set up a server outside the country that’s run by you and others inside the country. It’s fairly easy to set up virtual private servers, although you may need to arrange payment outside the country.

That would be much safer than hosting it with the physical infrastructure inside your borders. If you’re hosting the physical infrastructure, it makes it much easier to locate. If the server is not in Iran, then it may be difficult or impossible for the government to seize it and access the contents.

There are people on this site who are far more expert than I when it comes to network security. Follow their feedback and you may even find someone willing to partner with you to help set it up.

An addage I live by: An expert is someone who has already made every mistake in an area.