In Germany there’s an app called “Jodel”, which is essentially like a localized reddit/lemmy. That means, you only see posts from people near you (the default is something like 10km, I think).
This is of course awesome for localized events, Craigslist style posts, or just discussions about local stuff.
I wondered, despite creating local communities on Lemmy or tags for your city, is there anything like it on the fediverse?
I feel like if there is one, not many people in Fediverse would use it. Because staying anonymous and not constantly spread person stuff like your location has somewhat high priority for the people here.
Should be fine if, like Craigslist, you choose a city from a list instead of giving it permission to track your location
theres this one that attemps by ip i think https://fediverse.observer/
e. seems pretty microblog heavy… no lemmy is suggested for example
This seems to be more about finding instances, less about actually posting localized.
BTW: why is feddit.uk hosted in Germany according to this site? I thought they brexited?
I know about muenster.im which is a Mastodon instance specific to the city of Münster. There is also mastodon.hamburg for example.
Those are not local-by-default social media services, though. But I guess it’s easier to find an instance with a local focus instead of “Jodel but federated”.
