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🆕 blog! “Scattered thoughts on social geolocation”
I want to be able to share my location with my friends on social media. Twitter (RIP) had a way to attach an optional location to a post. Facebook still lets me check in to venues. But neither ActivityPub (Mastodon) nor AT Protocol (BlueSky) allow me …
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/scattered-thoughts-on-social-geolocation/
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#ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #FourSquare #geolocation #json #openstandards #OpenStreetMap
@Edent It’s not for me but I can see this work out really well in a Pixelfed account to share where a photo was taken.
I envisage maps with dots and then you can click a dot to see how dozens of people have photographed the same thing in dozens of different ways.
@Edent nice article!
I notice you didn't mention as:Place in #ActivityStreams vocab. In your previous article you mentioned "there is good news and bad news" around as:Place, and I deduced the bad news was that Mastodon didn't support it.
Regarding the #SWICG #GeoSocial task force proposal, you wrote:
> The primary thing missing from the proposal is any form of understanding what users want to do with a geotagged post.
In both the observation on Mastodon support and mention of a geotagged *post* there's an implicit assumption on the application domains this pertains to: (micro)blogging social media.
I gather that the range of business/app domains that may have geosocial capabilities is much broader than that. And while a list of generic use cases can be brainstormed for support, things will be quite solution-specific. And the TF perhaps better provide good guidance and building blocks for that.
Broader question is whether fedi is already tied shut in a microblogging straitjacket.
@Edent huh. Didn’t know you look like actor and comedian Jason Mantzoukas. Nice!
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