so a few months ago i wrote about geo-tagging posts.

the idea is that you can add a geo-id: tag to every post that kinda represents the physical location of an event. so for example when it’s a post about some news in australia, you could add geo-id: australia to the post. then other users can filter posts by physical proximity, i.e. if you’re living in australia, it’s gonna be more relevant to you than if you live in canada.

(for practical reasons it would be cool if you would only have to add that tag once, to the community where it’s posted in, and then every post kinda gets that tag automatically.)

then there could be a custom setting in the lemmy settings that says “only display local news” that filters out everything that is more than, let’s say, 300 km from the “your own location” that you enter in the settings. This could be a client-side setting so that your physical location would never have to be revealed to the lemmy servers at all.

what do you think of this?

  • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgOPEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    i have also written here about how mastodon is more user-centric (because you follow users) while lemmy is more topic-centered (because you follow topic-oriented communities).

    now i conjecture that maybe mastodon is more closely appropriate for location-specific content? because you can have one mastodon instance per city, to see all the stuff there (all contributing users) in a wild, mixed feed. and as is usual in a city, you might have specific people that you know well that you would like to hear more stuff from. meanwhile on lemmy, emphasizing individual users is a bit more difficult and less easy to do.

    so i’m wondering whether there’s a correlation between user-centricism and location-centricism, versus topic-centricism.

    this might be an abstract thought but idk whether you can understand it?

    (in which case i would like to embed whole mastodon instances as a community in lemmy. so you might subscribe to the https://feddit.org/c/mastodon:wien.rocks or https://feddit.org/c/all@wien.rocks community to see all stuff from the https://wien.rocks/ mastodon instance. wien is the city of vienna btw.)