contrapunctus

Hello from Delhi 👋

I'm more active on XMPP and Akkoma, unfortunately.

It's not bad, but

1. There might be too many projects named "Delta ___". (...I'm guessing. I can really only think of Delta Chat.)
2. Is being a fork the only identity of this project? I would rather the name reflect other characteristics... 🤔

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Douglas Adams

I didn't even understand the joke until I saw this 😅

On iOS, Go Map!! has a mode which shows quests like StreetComplete. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map!!

An iOS version of StreetComplete is also in progress. If anyone is a developer, go help them out! https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5530

OpenStreetMap data is "open data", licensed under a copyleft license. If a company were to acquire the project, it legally couldn't add restrictions to its use, nor use it in a proprietary dataset.

Also, OpenStreetMap is governed by the non-profit OpenStreetMap Foundation, which any active mapper can become a voting member of. Corporate buyout of a democratic body like the Foundation seems unlikely.

Lastly, major companies like Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, TomTom, Niantic etc already rely on this data. Most of them are corporate sponsors of the OSMF and help keep the servers running. 🙂 https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members

Jabber, a.k.a. XMPP. It's decentralized, featureful, standardized, and low on server resources.

Here's a user's guide I wrote.

https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide-to-xmpp.html

Thanks for reading, and sharing your feedback.

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