I've now got a basic outbox at https://location.edent.tel/outbox
Do please let me know if it is broken in some way. Ta!
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:10:19 JST Terence Eden -
Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 08:10:19 JST Terence Eden @mikedev @silverpill
Yeah, it is a "write only" account. It sends messages which seem to be federated out.
I'm logging likes, boosts, and replies, but not doing anything with them yet.
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 04:03:37 JST Terence Eden @Gargron haha! Fair enough.
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 04:02:51 JST Terence Eden Image upload works! And those photos percolate through the #fediverse!
I still need to add proper alt text (just a static description for now).
And the UI is 💩
But I'm pretty pleased with how far I've got in a few hours of hacking away.
It is *totally* possible to build a location-based service on top of #OSM and #ActivityPub!
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 04:02:51 JST Terence Eden I've added a feature request to #Mastodon to display geotags.
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 04:02:50 JST Terence Eden Goodness me! The ActivityPub network is chatty.
In the last 6 hours, I've received 371 different messages to my single-user inbox.Most of which seem to be from servers announcing users have been deleted. They're not users or servers I've seen before.
Is this normal?
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:07:52 JST Terence Eden @Gargron 🥰
Yes please!
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:06:24 JST Terence Eden It's all working!
You can follow @edent_location for my "FourSquare-style" check-ins to locations.
TODO:
📸 Upload and store photos.
🔣 Set the language text to prevent spurious "Translate" options.
🖼 Make the interface look nice.
🔒 Better security
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:05:21 JST Terence Eden 🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”
I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:05:20 JST Terence Eden Not the prettiest page on the web, but I can now Geolocate my phone and find the 25 nearest named places on #OSM.
Next stage is making a button to send that location to my ActivityPub server to send out a message.
(This is crappy code, poorly architected. Just a Proof of Concept.)
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:05:20 JST Terence Eden Nice! My toy server can now:
✅ Record who is following it.
✅ Post to multiple inboxes.
✅ Generate a permalink for its posts.It doesn't do:
❌ Signature verification
❌ Handling replies, likes, or unfollows (it is a read-only account)
❌ Showing number of followers, posts, etc.Pretty happy with that.
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:05:20 JST Terence Eden OK gang! I now have an *extremely* basic ActivityPub server which can send messages to its follower!
Next steps:
* Record who is following it.
* Post to all followers (not just me).
* Stable URl for posts.
* Front end for picking locations nearby.
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jan-2024 17:05:19 JST Terence Eden I've just reposted a public status from my new location check-in service.
It doesn't handle replies or likes, but you can follow it.
Expect buggy and untested weirdness 🙂
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 02:02:42 JST Terence Eden @Gargron sadly not, just a flying visit.
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 01:31:21 JST Terence Eden I've arrived in #Brussels for #PrivacyCamp24
If you fancy a pre-conference drink, give me a shout 🍻
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 22:51:20 JST Terence Eden In conversation from mastodon.social permalink Attachments
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 22:49:55 JST Terence Eden @neil I'm fascinated by what an egg cooker is!
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 19:16:48 JST Terence Eden @Gargron we'd be lucky to have you!
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 23:02:16 JST Terence Eden Basically, something a bit like this:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314277203979
But with no cable and a much smaller button.In conversation from mastodon.social permalink Attachments
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Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 23:02:16 JST Terence Eden Anyone remember the Pressy?
It was a headphone port accessory which gave you an extra programmable button.https://www.whatmobile.net/Accessories/article/pressy-adds-extra-button-android-phones
How hard would it be to make a USB-C version? Something which was flush to your phone and acted like a mini OTG keyboard?
Would you buy one?
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