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Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? (carlnewton.github.io)
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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.

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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