A federated internet archive, I’m wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.
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A better jelu that actually works for me. It won’t import my Goodreads file AND it’s ugly af. If I had the skills I’d fork it myself, but alas.
Ever look into bookwyrm?
i have one but it’s not what i want
Fair enough! What do features are ya looking for?
Basically goodreads or bookwyrm without the social features, and portable like calibre. Importing from goodreads is a must, and a DNF shelf that doesn’t count books on it toward books read that year. Space for lengthy reviews, star ratings, book metadata and summary. Maybe a links or notes section for relevant extras like author socials or articles.
Reviews in OpenStreetMap, so that google maps can have a real competitor.
Its not FOSS, but I use to use foursquare for years because of how good it was at finding good restaurants / things to do in a new city. Now that its shut down, there’s no real alternative that comes close.
As an openstreetmap contributor, I wish this so much. Every time I add places in there I ask myself if I’m doing something really useful anf if it’s being actually used by anyone, or if I’m just wasting my time while thinking I’m doing a relevant thing because I know absolutely no one that uses it. Actually, the main osm site doesn’t even show details about businesses, but just the icon
THANK YOU! Please keep contributing! :)
Thanks for the motivation >.<
I work in emergency services and have been with multiple agencies that utilize OSM due to its increased accuracy and often more up to date data.
In some of our software, it’s even one of the base map options and many of us prefer it (both standard OSM layer and the humanitarian layer).
Wherever you are, your contributions are very well appreciated! I live in a very small town and use OSM. Idk who mapped this place, but having maps away from Google in such a small place makes me happy. Again, wherever you are, you are contributing to a cause that can help free people from big tech monopolies and actually advances human society forever.
You are part of the reason people like me who don’t have time to contribute to such efforts can use these apps anyways. Part of the reason adoption is possible. Part of the reason OSM can grow beyond just whatever you’re documenting.
Thank you, really. <3
I’m a sporadic/infrequent openstreetmap contributor, too - although I’m not second-guessing these contributions. Useless or not, I do use OSM all the time personally, so reason stands somebody before me did a good job and helped me a lot.
Admittedly, some of the people who use OSM around me use it because at a certain moment I’ve explained them the advantages. (I live in Europe and people frequently use other modes of transport besides the car, so OSM is legit frequently the better choice.)
I’m from Brazil, and the people around here love to swim and bathe in big tech, unfortunately. I tried talking about osm with a lot of people, but everyone keep using google no matter what :(
But recently, I have been giving less attention to adding businesses and more into other things related to navigation, which I know are used by some
Personally, I exercise the “growth mentality” here. Meaning, I don’t compare with a target value such as “I’ve converted 10% of the Earth population to OSM”. Instead, I compare with OSM as it was 6 months ago. This approach gives peace of mind and steady progress for me personally.
Just wanted to add, when I’m travelling I very much enjoy it when a town has up to date cafes/restaurants. That’s why my highest priority when I contributing to OSM is adding cafe/restaurant information.
Well at least googles reviews are now useless, so there is no competition there either.
I don’t know if there’s such thing but i wish there was a foss alternative for street view too
It’s nowhere close to Street view’s quality or quantity, but there is Panoramax
I also use Mapillary, I guess it is similar to Panoramax, cause it has the app and it’s well done.
Mapillary has the best coverage compared to the alternatives but it’s owned by Meta. It’s still much more open compared to Google but I figured the ownership is worth noting.
Oh thank you, I didn’t look into it
There’s Instant Street View, tho it’s just I guess a wrapper (???) for Google SV.
from the About button:
Simply type an address or place name to instantly see it in Google Street View.
There are some people working on this and proposing some options.
IMO, as someone who regularly edits OSM, the maps need much more info and basic editing before reviews. I had to add many of my fave restaurants. Forget about reviews when the restaurants aren’t even on there. Just saying. Maybe as it gets more users.
(Tangent: I was just in a foreign country where I didn’t have much mobile data. But I had downloaded OSM maps beforehand and made edits beforehand for my trip. The only downside is that OSMand doesn’t update their maps very often in some places so I almost never got to use all my edits. Overall though the offline maps were very helpful for navigation, etc.)
I was recently in a different country and two of us were navigating an area that had been built up over the last three years. Only OSM had the streets and buildings. Google was way behind and would have been useless.
So for those people editing, thank you, it actually matters.
If you have OSMand, you would be interested to know about the Live Updates feature, which lets you download newer versions of maps on top of your existing downloaded maps, kind of like a software patch. The feature states that you can download map updates as recent as one hour, but I’ve personally seen the “patches” reflect the changes as soon as 15-20 minutes into upload.
To view live updates, assuming you didn’t heavily customise your OSMand interface:
- Open the drawer through the hamburger icon button on the bottom left corner of the screen
- Select ‘Maps & Resources’ from the drawer
- Select ‘Updates’ tab from the tab list below the ‘Maps & Resources’ title bar on the top of the screen
- Select ‘Live Updates’ just below the ‘Device Memory’ graph
- Enable the toggle below the ‘OsmAnd Live’ title bar on the top of the screen
- Select a map of your choosing among the list displayed under ‘Available Maps’
- Select the ‘Update now’ button in the bottom sheet to manually update the map and wait for a moment
Once the steps have been followed, you show see something like this below the title of the bottom sheet:
“Updated: Today - <current time>. Includes OSM changes made until <current timestamp>.”
If you see this, you can go back to the map and verify that the changes have been included without downloading the entire map of the location from scratch. The “patches” are only a few MBs at most and you can set the live updates to happen automatically on an hourly, daily or weekly basis.
Holy crap I forgot about four square!
A federated internet archive, I’m wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.
My main concern would be how to prevent tampering with archived pages - the owner of the second most popular site after Wayback Machine, archive.is, has been known to modify the content of archived pages for petty personal reasons. And without the sanctity of archives, the whole exercise loses its value as proof of records of the past.
maybe that would be a rare case of some blockchain-like structure being actually useful? But without any kind of tokenization, of course
yeah this may be an actual use case
I know lots of people are crypto-reactionaries… But there are like dozens of these projects in the (primarily open source) crypto space. The basic idea seems to be that a crypto-archive uses a blockchain for hosting and a cryptocurrency to fund it. I don’t know how successful these projects have been. Here are a few quick examples from a search:
Using a blockchain to store any data beyond a little bit of text e.g. images and videos(hence why NFTs are stored as links to where an image was hosted, rather than the data of the image file itself living on the blockchain) is just incredibly inefficient and impractical however you slice it
A PeerTube like architecture would be far better(faster etc)
Something that could view and edit org files and connect to any/most cloud services
A foss decentralized marketplace that costed very little or nothing at all to small stores to participate, to fight back against amazon and others
It would be nice to have the same, but for uber-like drivers
Also food delivery.
In Finland, there used to be “pizza-online” which was really just a directory and ordering system for restaurants that already did delivery themselves.
They took a very small comission, as the site didn’t really do anything except connect restaurant and customer (and provide a review platform). For a long time, they didn’t even have an app.
You’d log in, select a restaurant, browse their menu and place an order. The order goes to the restaurant, and after that the site’s job was done.
It was massively succesful. Every hole in-the-wall pizza place was on there. Finding good food was easy and cheap, and the restaurants reached more customers than ever. And the platform including reviews led to competition in not just price, but quality.
Then pizza-online sold to foodora, and they got shut down, and psrticipating restaurant were no longer allowed to deliver themselves, and the cut taken by the platform skyrocketed.
In Finland, there used to be “pizza-online” which was really just a directory and ordering system for restaurants that already did delivery themselves.
Something like that would be very nice too!
Then pizza-online sold to foodora, and they got shut down, and psrticipating restaurant were no longer allowed to deliver themselves, and the cut taken by the platform skyrocketed.
Oh no…
Flohmarkt is probably the closest. Basically federated ebay.
Cool stuff. Its a shame not many people are using it.
Something like that is what society needs.
Thanks, I will check it
The software for that is relatively easy
Getting people to use it will be next to impossible. Without a strong marketing budget, it would take decades at beat before even a small percentage of people would be using it (see Linux desktop) as its all word of mouth and initially only the nerds in the know would be using it for years
True, but if we think about it, the “nerds in the know” can be a strong niche for some kind of businesses
I would like to see such a thing. But I would add API for accessing it with a dedicated app. Allows for better performance and features like filtering across multiple shops at once an even allows integration in scripts.
I think what you want is a CO OP. It would be nice if the software was FOSS of course.
But a coop would make things like uber type services be worker owned.
Also members can make decisoons.
- reverse image search, upload an image, find a matching image online.
- a broken link checker/scanner with email notifications.
- a domain name helper that uses combines two words using synonyms.
- a link saver like pocket but simpler (mobile version)
- a pixabay alternative that doesn’t allow AI or let it train AI
- A job listing website that is Anti-AI (No AI jobs)
1.Tineye? Not sure if it’s FOSS tho…
Sure seems great, thank you!
a link saver like pocket but simpler (mobile version)
Have you tried Wallabag?
i wish cars had more of a conventional computer, more sensors, modular expansion, and completely open.
you would see some pretty cool shit.
There is a project called Open ECU that does some of this but I think its scope is very limited
unfortunately the max length of comments is to limited to answer this question… ;)
Yet you did just one phrase that said nothing. If you got such a list, by all means, fill out the max comment length. Feel free even to make a second comment if needed!
ok, seems that i forgot an important part to my message: /s
GarageBand. It’s literally the only proprietary software that I prefer over open source DAWs.
Shouldout to LMMS, Audacity, etc. I appreciate and use these too. But GB makes things so easy…
Have you tried Ardour?
first came a not of federated services to mind, not that’s really necessary foss. but what would be cool is foss firmware or really open api for any hardware you buy… Home “smart” appliances, printers, cars infotainment system, etc, etc
I’d like a federated ecosystem for game mods that uses torrents for file downloads to reduce server load. Something to act as a safe haven in case NexusMods enshittifies. It’d also allow more diverse sets of rules through servers, so you could have versions of Nexus, LoversLab, etc. all sharing a framework instead of everything running smoothly for one and not the others.
Plus, NexusMods have really dropped the ball with regards to permissions. Their default permissions are set up so that if you’re a mod author, other authors need to ask you for permission to use your mod as a dependency. Not just crediting you and linking to your mod, but asking permission beforehand. I don’t see how anyone can look an that and not see it as insanely hypocritical
A self-hosted media tracker that automatically curates all media (tags, descriptions, etc)
Have you looked at Yamtrack?
software with 1:1 feature parity with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop (except genAI crap)
As far as InDesign—I don’t think it will probably ever have 1:1 feature parity, but LibreOffice Writer has recently gotten some new features that allow for more fine-tuned word and letter spacing as well as glyph scaling. A paragraph composer is on the horizon as well. There’s also Inkscape and Krita, but I’m guessing you probably already know about those…
Hmm thanks, but yea a word editor would probably be missing a ton of layout and image features. The closest I’ve found was Scribus but it seems pretty rough.
Yes, I tried Inkscape, but sadly found its UI very unintuitive. Also bc it only works with SVG files, it doesn’t properly support CMYK colours.
I know of Krita, but I mostly use Photoshop for image editing, not painting. And it’s the one of the three I use the rarest and has the most alternatives, so my main pain points are the other two, as long as the three programs work well together. (Which is another weakness in FLOSS software, they don’t tend to come in “suites”. Not to say that Adobe apps don’t have a ton of little inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies, but at least they can smoothly work with each other’s files.)
I hear ya. I have never had good luck with Scribus despite several dedicated tries. Still kind of learning Inkscape; I mentioned Krita instead of GIMP because it has full CMYK support. Depends on what your needs are I guess! 🙂
A high-quality FOSS version of Reaper (DAW) that can use the expensive audio production plugins. Right now that’s where all Linux DAWs run short - the best plugins are only for Windows, or for Cubase. Running them through some VSTi Linux wrapper never quite works correctly.
Maybe something like After Effects with all the plugins and tools. Right now the software itself exists in Kdenlive, just not all the addons people have written for After Effects.
But pretty much everything else I use is already FOSS.
