Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...

Komoot has always rubbed me the wrong way with its aggressive marketing tbh.

I reckon most people lurking here browse BP anyway, really only posting this because i was surprised to see somebody in the comments giving a shoutout to this community! 😊

  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I read it yesterday and tbh this sentiment I get from most of these services.

    So I plan locally, store the gpx files and don’t share them yet. After I get home I will probably start a classic blog where I will laid it out for everyone.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Why not post it here? Or another appropriate community with not much engagement. The (small) audience is already waiting.

      • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Good question. But I don’t know if I satisfy you with my answer.

        I am getting to it, if you look at my older posts (and my mastodon) you can get the idea what I am doing since January.

        So the thing is that I don’t have the nerves to type more than few posts per week on Mastodon. But I want to do some write up on it and post it as a complete thing on one place and then link it/ repost it to social media. The blog will be the reference to the posts and resource for others that wants more structured info about it.

    • bonjour@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Yeah i also do it only locally, although i got to say this wanderer.to thing looks pretty interesting. There is an instance on tchncs.de, i’m thinking about signing up there, just to have a look. Would be cool if that was also compatible with wordpress or ghost, to add the tracks from a blog into the wanderer sphere, maybe it is already possible, i don’t know.

      • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I didn’t write it in my reply, so exactly this is something I am looking to.

        Basically some integration with fediverse but in this case I am looking to do it bit backwards add it to the wanderer and link it/embed it on the blog.

        • bonjour@mander.xyzOPEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Do you already know what type of software you’d wanna use for the blog? Some kind of federated blog i assume? I am playing around with wordpress again, i think it’s pretty good for a non-techie person like me, i like it.

          • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            No, I will contact few people on Mastodon that play with it and offer webhosting.

            As some of them said that it is the best way to support the running of the instance - make them business so they can run fediverse on side.