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Alltrails Alternatives? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/hiking@lemmy.world
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Is there a more free version of Alltrails? I find Alltrails to be too paywalled when I don't even think they deserve my money. What exactly do they even do? The community creates everything and it's not like they're contributing to the Maps community or anything.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's beautiful! Add federation and this could really be something I feel (and obviously there'd have to be a few good public servers because fediverse people and hikers probably don't have a huge overlap).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just curious, what would federation add to this?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Mainly not having it be centralised. See, I can host my own. My local scout organisation can host their own. Maybe some other regional body can host their own. They have their own thing going, but they also have seamless integration with other services.

    For something I'm self-hosting, there's no way there will be a big user base and a lot of public trails and such crowdsourced. But with a federated alternative I think we could see a very healthy form of crowdsourcing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh yea I see now. So by many users self-hosting and it being federated, it would allow for shared data across instances like trail conditions, weather conditions, new trails, etc. Seems like a great idea

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