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Open-source social media is growing (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/CoMaps@sopuli.xyz
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CoMaps now has more than 7k subscribers across different social media platforms – today reaching 7,777. And the biggest growth is on open-source platforms:

Mastodon - distributed microblogging

Matrix - distributed group messaging

Lemmy - distributed discussion communities

Bluesky - microblogging

Pixelfed - Photos

SimpleX - private messaging

If you have not tried these, check them out!

On the left the CoMaps logo, and on the right logos of Mastodon, Matrix, Lemmy, Bluesky, Pixelfed, SimpleX.
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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Happy to see, Google maps I've found hard to replace. but it's a marathon not a sprint

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What OSM needs is a widely used service with consumer real time updates. The only thing I've been missing is showing closed roads or traffic. But that is all user sourced. Of we get enough people on board we are golden.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    ill switch when they have usable public transport. i get its a big effort. but without it its useless to me.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Try Oeffi for public transport, it's awesome.

    https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    There's so much info you can get via Google Maps:

    Busy Times (like for gyms or shopping)

    Whats Nearby

    Phone/website, etc

    Reviews (mixed bag)

    Etc

    It's tough. I use OSM as much as possible, but these are all things that I find very useful.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I tried comaps can't even locate my own house and it search is horrible couldn't find nothing. Wish them well but its a long way off from being a useful navigator.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That's not an issue with CoMaps, but with OpenStreetMaps, the open map data source used by Comaps.

    You can help fill in the missing info in your area yourself, if you want.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The contributing guide is here but for adding simple places I’ve had good luck just doing it from the app. The hamburger menu on the bottom right has a “add place” option, and I found it very intuitive from there personally. Good luck and thanks for being willing to contribute!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Okay thank you and definitely will do that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Thanks for contributing to open map data!

    Small FYI: It may take some days until your contributions are visible in OSM. And then a few more weeks until the next Comaps release after that for them to be visible in Comaps - since Comaps only periodically pulls data from OSM to make optimized custom maps.

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