Comment on Spotting with the Fediverse?
BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 3 days ago
I could see a community used for spotting. Not sure how the browser extension part would work.
I see people post a sorta self-spot on mastodon all the time. Something that might be nice is a mastodon bot that could read a certain hashtag or if it was @ed so everyone could follow the bot to see who is activating.
33rpm_neutron_star@lemmy.radio 3 days ago
Gotcha - I never really got into the microblogging format (Fediverse or not), but now that you mention it I have seen a couple of posts like you describe.
Browser extension wouldn’t be my first (or tenth) actual choice, I’m basically spitballing for what the easiest way to get some basic filtering would be (activity, band, area, mode, QRT status etc.). You might be onto something with Mastodon bots - I remember a HRWB episode where they talked about using that mechanism.
BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 3 days ago
For lemmy: it’s mostly link sharing, so I’d mostly see posting about *OTA experiences, pics, questions here in the POTA/SOTA communities.
Mastodon, on the other hand, would just be one way to show something like that since it’s more time related and ephemeral. Bot was my first stab at something like you mean, but I do think there could be something to auto-post with all that data.
And while not on the fediverse: I use hamspot for something like this. It flips the onus of posting a spot to actually listening FOR a spot from people you know around the fediverse.
BUT if we want to let our ideas get REALLY wild with it: I could totally see a federated service for spotting. Different instances handing different kinds of spots. Parks or peaks or islands being different items that people can subscribe to and spot from. Just spit ballin’.
33rpm_neutron_star@lemmy.radio 3 days ago
A dedicated federated service was my first idea - I’ve been meaning to play around with Fedify for that reason. On the other hand it’s not really my area of expertise, and I didn’t want to be that guy who drops in to be like “can somebody build this software I want?” Lol.
Would totally try to contribute though.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 days ago
I’d start with a mastodon hashtag and just manually spot. If it gets popular, you can connect a bot account that gets data from wherever you want.
An alternative is to publish an RSS feed for your station.