Places, a unique Pixelfed feature that allows you to add an optional location to your posts to make them discoverable by place!
We are working to support custom places too!
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@dansup Oooh, l love that!! 🤩 Would it be possible to fix the issue with multiple locations sharing the same name?
@dansup You want women to be stalked, don't you?
@KittenKoder You have to manually add a location to each post, private or unlisted posts are not included, and we strip exif data.
Quite the opposite really.
@dansup Please tell me you at least learned something about social pressures and how a "feature" becomes a "necessity" just because of peer pressure. Look how people do the one security threat all the time now, posting their real photos and names online everywhere.
Do you realize how dangerous this one change is to the way people use social media? Now you're adding another one of the three don'ts.
1. Don't share photos of your face
2. Don't give real name.
3. Don't share your address.
great feature! I wonder what format do you use? we (https://welley.social) also have locations for posts and user profiles and it would be great to use some standard.
for posts we use the following structure:
"location": {
"type": "Place",
"name": "Googleplex",
"latitude": "37.422",
"longitude": "-122.0841",
"country": "USA",
"countryCode": "us",
"region": "California",
"locality": "Mountain View",
"street": "Amphitheatre Parkway",
"postalCode": "94043"
}
name is the address name, or the formatted address if there's no name. The coordinates are strings.
on user we use PropertyValue, i.e.
"attachment": [
...
{ "type": "PropertyValue", "name": "location", "value": "Split, Croatia" },
{ "type": "PropertyValue", "name": "timezone", "value": "Arctic/Longyearbyen" }
]
@dansup I pictured something like this, great. https://mastodon.social/@LeonardoDiOttio/116963853515800432
Does it work with other ActivityPub services that might also use location. Perhaps #Mobilizon or #FediHood?
I picture things such as grouping all photos of an event together, or discussions around the location of a photo.
@dansup where does the places database come from?
@dansup Very nice, looking forward to that!