Is there any good alternative to google reviews? I've been using lib.reviews but it seems kind of dead.

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[–] 9 points 3 months ago

Reviews are a thing of the past due to manipulation, and now ai as well. Google reviews have been trash for a long time. It really is a pity, there was a time when you could do an internet search for 'best' and get decent results, long time ago now though, before all of the amazon links.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Getting reviews integrated into OpenStreetMaps should be one of the most important projects in open source today. Last time I checked, its fairly stalled.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    CoMaps is good alternative for Google Maps overall (simple to use, emphasis on POI, routing). They are actively working on including reviews from mangrove.reviews, and may release the feature very soon (source from last week).

    Mangrove.reviews contains only a few reviews for now, but having recently been integrated in MapComplete, the number don't stop increasing.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    cartes.app just added reviews so there isnt much there.

    Seems like there is a major bootstrapping problem with reviews... like any social media

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm doing my part adding reviews to Mapy but it's pretty empty in my part of the world.

    Also, I have mixed feelings about putting reviews in another closed system. Ideally there would be a FOSS review system based on open street maps that all map apps connected and contributed to. I'm not a developer or a multi-millionaire invester though, so ¯\(ツ)/¯

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yelp still exists but they’re evil too.

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