Over the past year or so I’ve been playing with the idea of a decentralised social platform based on your location. By putting physical location at the centre of the experience, such a platform could be used to bring communities together and provide a source of local information when travelling. Please let me know what you guys think.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    you could just design an alogorithm that heavily favors any posts physically close to you. the closer they are, the higher in your feed.

    • ericjmorey@discuss.online
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      3 months ago

      I’d like to see this experiment carried out at a sufficient scale. I feel like there would be a benefit to a gravity like component that takes density and distance into account so that people in sparsely “populated” regions aren’t just effectively seeing an unprioritized feed of the entire network.