I once saw a growth of perhaps 100 leaves from one point on an otherwise ordinary tree. I guess that was a gall too.

Please use the direct URL of the file:

https://i.imgur.com/2SnKSXg.jpeg

Sure but there is a huge step between not being able to drive the way one wants and where one wants. The cost is also vastly different: human drivers in cars are inherently dangerous and kill 40k people every year in the US. Of course this can be reduced with current technology by incentivizing alternatives to driving.

Microsoft replaced fdisk with diskpart.exe in Windows 2000. I can’t imagine how bad the former must have been to warrant that switch. (Or was it super-early enshittification?)

I didn’t like the last one. Sure, corpos would love to create a society akin to the one described but the way the story is framed, it’s as if driving one’s own car is the main tenet of freedom.

I was making a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? joke.

How is this not framed?

Try integrating with OpenStreetMap Traces and Tapiriik for ease-of-use. Recommend running your own instance for the latter. Not necessarily for the minimum viable product but consider this into the future.

Good bike computers like Garmin’s allow GPX export so HW compatibility is there. It’s a few manual steps but you can make the process automatic for example by syncing your HW tracker to Tapiriik (15+ brands supported), which then can auto-download GPX files to your computer via Dropbox (or without Dropbox if you run it locally), and then you can auto-upload those to OSM with one of these scripts running on your machine.

The map is a community effort and the lack of social features, which caters to introverts, keeps focus on the end goal - an accurate map of the world. Other platforms are suitable for social activities and you can link to your OSM trace from there.

Yes, seeing the trace geometry only with no map is a letdown. That’s why I suggested the visualizer in another comment. It would certainly improve the shareability of traces.

OSM doesn’t produce any hardware. They are a wiki-based world mapping effort. In addition, they run a PNG tile provider (so you can embed their map on a website), an article wiki for how to edit the map etc. and the trace repository.

You can use OSM and record traces using various apps mentioned on their wiki.

Come to think of it, OSM traces include timestamps and elevation for each recorded point, plus maybe other data from the uploaded GPX file. Maybe someone will create a Strava-style visualizer that serves HTML, SVGs or PNGs from trace IDs with a map, speed and elevation profile for easy sharing. Imagine your trace is https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/hagu/traces/11959920 and you change openstreetmap.org with perhaps openstreetmap-traceview.org and get a nice sharable overview that also has a PNG for preview on socials. Maybe even a page with a list of activities by user including kilometer stats by month, mode of transport etc.

That’s the neat part, there isn’t. Post about your trips where you want, you can then refer to the OSM trace.

People have given consent for you to improve OSM with that data though. For example, one GPS trace can be pretty inaccurate (especially under a canopy where aerial imagery also doesn’t work) but you can compile a dozen (get them with a location-specific query) and get a very good average. You can message people about those edits, and add notes.

Also, StreetComplete gives you achievements for completing quests and uploading traces. They are automated but it makes it look like actual people are grateful. Of course most people who use OSM will never actually thank the contributors but you’re still doing a great service by improving the map around you.

There is a great community effort at https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces

You can directly upload there with StreetComplete or Vespucci. Or exports from any tracking app that gives you a GPX file (including Strava I think). Otherwise, don’t really expect FOSS-minded people to share their trips.

Imgur stands for image URL: they would let you upload images and provide you with a direct URL. The enshittification with all that JS and push for on-site social networking came after New Reddit and i.redd.it.

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I think New Reddit provides the Imgur URL and RES uses it to generate a preview in Old Reddit.

Anyway, should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time trying to accomodate specific shitty platforms?

StreetComplete quests be like:

• What kind of building is this?
• How does this path cross the barrier here?
• Is this path completed?
• Is it lit here?
• Do you need to pay to enter here?
• What’s being grown here?
• Are there showers here?
• What religion is practiced at this place?
• How many steps are here?
• Which direction leads upwards for these steps?
• Any vegetarian items on the menu here?
• What’s the name of this place?
• On which level number is this place located?
• Is this a one-way street?
• Does this road have a shoulder or breakdown lane?
  • I wish I had a shoulder to cry on during my breakdowns :(
• Do these traffic lights have a tactile indication for blind people for when it’s safe to cross?
• How bumpy is the road here?
• Which destination is signposted for this highway?

I explained it in another comment. This was a simplification that’s true for i.redd.it and v.redd.it (which block embeds with CORS), the native web UI doesn’t do iframe embeds for privacy reasons.

Also, the default (and the most frequent) way people get an image URL out of Imgur is the album URL even for single images. You’d need to contact Imgur to query the number of images and their URLs to enable the kind of embeds you’re looking for. AFAIK, Reddit does that but it probably costs them money for an API key.

What frontend are you using? Surely not the default web interface or Voyager!

I simplified it a bit. Reddit blocks embeds with CORS or something (and I think Imgur at some point did too) so you do need a deal.

For YouTube, you need to get a special embed URL, like https://youtube.com/embed/videoIDhere (or with the domain youtube-nocookie.com if you’re cool). That’s easy to generate but if your site includes embedded YouTube videos it also means visitors agree to their ToS, and Lemmy devs don’t want that. Believing in net neutrality, they would need to enable ALL iframe embeds from ALL websites, which could easily get messy with tracking and whatnot. As for Imgur, the default (and the most frequent) way people get an image URL is the album URL even for single images. You’d need to contact Imgur to query the number of images and their URLs to enable the kind of embeds you’re looking for. AFAIK, Reddit does that but it probably costs them money for an API key.