Hmmm. Converting my #ActivityPub posts to #GeoJSON was pretty straightforward.
Here's what a map of my recent check-in activity looks like:
OK, if you'd like to play about with a *very* basic front-end for my Fediverse-location-foursquare-check-in thing, please visit:
SUPER bare-bones. Just a proof of concept.
Here's my blog post about building a personal #Fediverse server in #PHP.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/02/a-tiny-incomplete-single-user-write-only-activitypub-server-in-php/
It was surprisingly simple. You can *publish* #ActivityPub with very modest computing resources.
If you can see the geotags on @edent_location please send me a screenshot 🙂
@Edent @edent_location Howdy. I'm writing an ActivityPub C2S client web app, so I used your location notes to prototype a tag in my UI. Here's what it currently looks like. (Not sure I like showing the co-ordinates - I may hide them in future. Also, the tag is a clickable link that goes to `https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=${latitude}&mlon=${longitude}#map=19/${latitude}/${longitude}`)
@Edent @edent_location This is such a cool project! 👏 I am sure the #OpenStreetMap and #Mapstodon folks are interested in your location sharing project and it could spark more ideas for geo-related use-cases built on top of ActivityPub 🎉
@Edent I’m seeing what appears to be raw JSON in Ivory on iOS.
Well, my personal #ActivityPub server seems to mostly work!
I wonder if I could move @openbenches from a bot account onto its own server?
Do you prefer post-only bots (which can't reply to you) to be on a bigger instance or run from their own server?
@Edent @openbenches my instinct is that bots would definitely benefit from the "authentication" benefits of being on the same domain as they claim to bot for, if that makes sense.
(i.e. if the openbenches bot is on an openbenches.org server, there's not doubt it's the legit bot)
@Edent I'm quite happy it just being a bot, what benefits would there be for running it on its own server?
@okwithmydecay decentralisation. Not taking up resources on someone else's site. To prove it can be done.
That's about it, really.