In Germany there’s an app called “Jodel”, which is essentially like a localized reddit/lemmy. That means, you only see posts from people near you (the default is something like 10km, I think).
This is of course awesome for localized events, Craigslist style posts, or just discussions about local stuff.
I wondered, despite creating local communities on Lemmy or tags for your city, is there anything like it on the fediverse?
If mastodon would introduce location you could use it for that kind of stuff but I think they are busy doing other things. meaning, someone else would need to implement the location feature. And that’s totaly doable
I know about muenster.im which is a Mastodon instance specific to the city of Münster. There is also mastodon.hamburg for example.
Those are not local-by-default social media services, though. But I guess it’s easier to find an instance with a local focus instead of “Jodel but federated”.
I feel like if there is one, not many people in Fediverse would use it. Because staying anonymous and not constantly spread person stuff like your location has somewhat high priority for the people here.
Should be fine if, like Craigslist, you choose a city from a list instead of giving it permission to track your location
I’m not aware of one who has locality embedded at it’s core.
I’d love to see an alternative to kleinanzeigen.de . I recently learned (here on Lemmy) that there is Flohmarkt. I still have to try it myself. But it doesn’t seem to sort the listings by proximity, which would really add to it.
And there is Mobilizon for events.
Both projects are federated afaik. But the ‘local’ aspect isn’t really baked in to the way they federate.
theres this one that attemps by ip i think https://fediverse.observer/
e. seems pretty microblog heavy… no lemmy is suggested for example
This seems to be more about finding instances, less about actually posting localized.
BTW: why is feddit.uk hosted in Germany according to this site? I thought they brexited?
A domain can be hosted anywhere…
ahh yes, im sorry i misunderstood.
its because there is a very cheap hosting provider in germany that most of the fediverse uses, hetzner