time for some kind of anonymizing location data sharing service, peer to peer or federated protocol? that might be interesting, or sketchy, not sure which.

Pretty sure you can download the maps ahead of time, GPS doesn’t require data, then upload the fixes when you get home.

Go map keeps crashing for me, does it for you?

I’ve been using Go Map! but it keeps crashing… Maybe I’ll try Streetcomplete if it’s on apple.

Crawling and indexing lemmy inter-instance would be an incredible boon to discoverability on the platform.

It does. And Firefox is my default browser app.

The internet is a series of tubes.

I’ve never tried Usenet, but I’ve heard little bits about it here and there. What’s a good way to give it a try?

I’m glad people are talking about this. There definitely needs to be a ‘back-fill’ protocol to capture unfederated content across instances with different ages, or to make up for dropped requests due to server load

This is the current and unfortunate situation. I dearly hope that this will change soon, leveling the playing field for young instances, and improving discoverability.

Feels good man

One reason this happens if you made your account on a small instance is that your instance just isn’t federating with very many communities. If you’re the first from your instance to subscribe to a community, try this: Use an explorer like lemmyverse.net to find new communities, copy the url into your home instance’s search field, and it should appear in the results after a few seconds or a refresh. Click the search result and subscribe from there. From then on, that instance will populate everyone’s ‘All’ tab on your home instance with posts from that community, and ‘Subscribed’ if you remain subscribed

lets see you make a post then