🆕 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…
There are #DataLeaks and then there’s this. A supermassive Mother of all Breaches [#MOAB] includes records from thousands of meticulously compiled and reindexed leaks, breaches, and privately sold databases. The full and searchable list is included at the end of this article.
@Edent I've only dabbled with Overpass, but am curious to see what a #Fediverse alternative to #Foursquare's Swarm would look like. I feel that Swarm is already quite niche as an app, as it used to be quite popular, but I only know a handful of people still using it, so a federated alternative could be even more niche.
Data brokers know everything about you – what FTC case against ad tech giant Kochava reveals
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So y’all remember #Swarm app (spin off from #FourSquare)? When you check in and earn #coins, it animates them falling/flying/splashing around the screen.
The number of coins in the #animation correlates to the number earned for that checkin.
Usually a checkin gets just a few coins. Sometimes bonuses will net 100+.
I had two checkins today with insane bonuses resulting in 600+ coins each. The app choked horribly trying to #render the animation!!
My inner #OpenStreetMap geek gets a lot of joy using #EveryDoor and #StreetComplete to enter information about restaurants and cafés. However, I really wish there was a website or app like #Foursquare, which leveraged this data, so I could use it to find somewhere to eat lunch or dinner, otherwise all this data feels a bit academic.
@cliffwade
Here's something both surprising and a bit creepy. After having talked to you about it, and having never heard from them for like a decade....