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!
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Note Matrix.org, the largest and default server, is running a commercial closed-source server implementation.
Pick another server if you want to use open-source software and services.
Or pick xmpp instead, the reliable lightweight completely foss alternative.
Just blows me away that XMPP isn’t the standard, it’s been around so long.
The early IM apps all used it, AOL messenger, the now defunct Google platform (forget the name), many others. Oh, Pidgin, how I miss using you to connect all these services.
I use XMPP today for my SMS. My cell vendor (jmp.chat) pipes all my SMS into XMPP, and I access it via an app - Cheogram or Monocles on Android, Snikket on iOS, Gajim on Windows/Linux. I get SMS whether the phone is on or off. I don’t even get regular SMS on my phone anymore, I even have the native SMS app disabled.
I was thinking of going the jmp.chat route when Skype(in) was killed for being too popular and reliable. How’s it work for reliability?
(It was gChat and then gTalk that used xmpp until Google sparkle-addicts rewrote their own like Bender. And during that one magical month, one could private-chat between Fb and gTalk seamlessly. It was bliss)
I’ve had no problems with the SMS to XMPP part.
Voice calls have been problematic, but I suspect that’s my phone (I have 2 Pixels using it, only one had voice call quality issues, the other is fine).
Since I don’t really use voice, it’s not an issue for me. For the one phone, I just got a SIM from US Mobile and use that for voice calls, since SMS is no longer tied to the SIM!
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I couldn’t find them on the website; here’s a list if anyone’s interested!:
https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/wiki/Social-Media-Platforms
CoMaps is like a miracle to me. I didn’t know about it, got it on my Phone with the most recent iodé OS update. I tried it and it just works, based on OSM, pure bliss. I could even find glass recycling containers in a city when I was on vacations :D
Will definitely become a regular donor!
The rising tide raises all boats!
Why was bluesky so successful but mastodon wasn’t? 🤔
I downloaded CoMaps.
I wasn’t expecting it to be needing a big download for the area of the map I’m in. Fine I guess. At least it works offline.
Lack of info about traffic or closed roads kind of means I probably won’t really use it for big trips.
Could be useful if I’m out for a walk somewhere new, I guess. Probably depends on how active an area is in Open Street Maps.
Traffic info is in the works and should be ready soon! Not sure if that includes closed roads though
Where does it pull traffic info from?
All requests from the app will go to our own traffic server (Traff Server), where data from several different sources will be compiled, mainly official government sources.
Very cool! It seemed like the sort of thing that would only be possible with google levels of data.
I used to work for a company that pulled publicly available traffic data way before it was a thing on Google Maps. Google actually faked trying to buy the company, they were actually stealing ideas to implement in their product.
Google was already evil 20 years ago…
Looking on OSM a local closed bridge is marked with a note (although that probably doesn’t carry over to routing info anyway), but can’t see that in CoMaps. Not sure whether they include that in the data or not.
Nice to have data that isn’t owned by trillion dollar companies anyway.
OSM discourages including any temporary road closures afaik, they are very particular about that. So it would not be very useful to rely on the little data that exists about it, since it may also not be up to date in many cases.
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xmpp? perphaps even irc or a mailing list for those in still the 90s
