I've built an ersatz FourSquare clone for the Fediverse!

For now it is single user instance (me) and runs on a simple server with no database - just a couple of PHP files.

It geolocates my phone's web browser, shows nearby Points of Interest using OpenStreetMap, lets me attach a short message & an image with alt text.

Then it posts it to its Fediverse followers. The post contains geotags which *some* ActivityPub clients can see.

Sample post:
https://location.edent.tel/posts/65b8f590-f308-d472-82c5-92a9f227c641.json

Follow: @edent_location

Source code is at https://github.com/edent/location-activitypub-symfony

Very much a Minimum Viable Product. Will blog about how it works this weekend.

@andypiper TBH, you don't need to. I just used it as default because it is what I use for OpenBenches.

As long as you can do a rewrite so /inbox hits a PHP file, you can do it in vanilla.

@Edent I wonder how easy it would be to run on something like Glitch... When I am not juggling State of Open and FOSDEM prep I shall take a look!

@andypiper dead easy 🙂

My first attempt used it - but Glitch doesn't like it when it gets hammered by lots of requests.

@Edent I have both Postmarks and Shuttlecraft instances on Glitch with low traffic…

@Edent gah, must stop distracting my brain. Next week!

@andypiper here's the one I was using, remixed with some location stuff in it.
https://glitch.com/edit/#!/unmarred-ten-approach