A federated internet archive, I’m wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.

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    20 hours ago

    I’m a sporadic/infrequent openstreetmap contributor, too - although I’m not second-guessing these contributions. Useless or not, I do use OSM all the time personally, so reason stands somebody before me did a good job and helped me a lot.

    Admittedly, some of the people who use OSM around me use it because at a certain moment I’ve explained them the advantages. (I live in Europe and people frequently use other modes of transport besides the car, so OSM is legit frequently the better choice.)

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      18 hours ago

      I’m from Brazil, and the people around here love to swim and bathe in big tech, unfortunately. I tried talking about osm with a lot of people, but everyone keep using google no matter what :(

      But recently, I have been giving less attention to adding businesses and more into other things related to navigation, which I know are used by some

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        8 hours ago

        Personally, I exercise the “growth mentality” here. Meaning, I don’t compare with a target value such as “I’ve converted 10% of the Earth population to OSM”. Instead, I compare with OSM as it was 6 months ago. This approach gives peace of mind and steady progress for me personally.