Trying out the fediverse for the first time today. I've been reading a lot about it, now it's time to figure out how it works and build an internet home here.
My goal is to figure out how I can bring www.gobikecamping.com into the fediverse and help people who love bike touring own their data and escape the metaverse.
#NewHere #introduction
@spencexyz welcome! I am pretty sure there will be plenty of folks with similar interests!
@spencexyz Welcome to the network!
@spencexyz cool! Please let me know how I can help. We have a Geosocial Task Force for ActivityPub work. Maybe you'd like to be involved....?
@evan this sounds really cool! I need to wrap my head around how ActivityPub works, so that I could more meaningfully contribute, but I'm definitely interested in joining.
@spencexyz May I recommend a book?
@evan I saw that in your bio, definitely going to take a look. for the working group, will there be a link to join the call on the site? i saw the github, are there any minutes from previous meetings that I can catch up on?
@spencexyz You can see the calendar here:
https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/socialcg/calendar/
There are meeting notes here:
@evan amazing, thank you!
Hi Spencer, welcome 👋
If you want an easy-to-understand guide to how this place works, have a look at the website https://fedi.tips (especially the section marked "Quick Start").
Please feel free to ask if you want help with anything specific, I am trying to provide unofficial tech support on here 🙂
“Own their data” sounds interestingly nerdy - all the way down to the hardware on their bikes, or on a server they own ?cooperatively?, or what?
(Eta, oh, I see at least one hosting expert has already answered! Good stuff.)
@clew right now it refers to content you put online, like photos and posts you make about your long distance bicycle adventures.
long term, I'd love to see a federated version of Strava. every year they cut down their api access further and further. but it's our data and we should be able to share with any external apps we want.
I'm trying to figure out how I can use the tools I'm building to expose more cyclists to the fediverse and help fuel that demand.
hey @Bonfire ! i saw this thread and thought you might be interested. there are currently solutions like OpenTracks for tracking physical activity statistics, but none have direct integration with ActivityPub for social sharing. A bonfire extension to integrate with an existing activity tracker could help many cyclists, hikers, runners, and more activity clubs migrate from Strava to communities on the fediverse 
That'd be a cool extension indeed! Have you also looked at wanderer.to ?
@spencexyz Welcome! Our humor is pretty dry but we are just as militant about destroying parking minimums and building quality bike infrastructure here as the next place.
