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Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? (carlnewton.github.io)
submitted 6 months ago by carlnewton@feddit.uk to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 6 months ago

I agree that this is a problem and Lemmy could do better at community discovery. It just feels inefficient to fetch all new communities all the time, but maybe some auto-fetching in case of popular posts should happen? I'm not sure how exactly to solve this problem.

[-] neatchee@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's actually a GREAT idea.

Server admins should be able to opt-in to pulling in the top N posts per hour/day/week from connected instances. Could even have an option like "if a community shows up more than X times this way, subscribe the server to that community", and then toss all that stuff into Discover section or something.

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