I haven't noticed search being all that bad, there's just straight up missing data.
Also wouldn't the search function be fixed at an app level, not across all OSM?
Well the only solution I can see is for us to start manually adding everything we can find to OSM unless there's some way to import better data into OSM or CoMaps.
No, looks like they're not, except one I added in CoMaps, so that explains it.
How does Magic Earth have all those addresses then? There was even a restaurant I was looking for the other day that I found on Magic Earth but not CoMaps. Is Magic Earth's map data open-source or can that somehow be loaded into CoMaps?
Yeah I got a MagSafe case and started using a MagSafe wallet I had from when I was on iPhone so I usually just use my physical cards now. Would be nice to not have to worry about forgetting my wallet but oh well.
I'm pretty much completely on FOSS now and really the only thing I miss, other than G Pay and compatibility with what other people use, is Google Maps, but Magic Earth is decent.
Congrats! I made the switch a few months ago and haven't looked back. Highly recommend everyone switch to GrapheneOS, even if you still use Google Play Services or other Google apps (obviously trying to get away from those is always the right move but it isn't that simple for most people)
Now just wish Google Pay or some other contactless payment could work with it...
The coconut crab is objectively one of the most terrifying creators on God's green earth
I still think it would be best to just have a "centralised" Peertube instance that can list videos from many other instances that users can sign up to and easily discover a large catalogue of content. The issue with a Mastodon style app is it could also show other random videos from Mastodon and short form videos from platforms like Loops, and those are two different media categories from Peertube/YouTube content in my mind.
100% agree with everything you say, I'm genuinely impressive how good Peertube is without the backing of a huge corporation. And I do love it as an option when regular people start getting tired enough of YouTube's enshitification.
My point is simply that in it's current state, Peertube isn't very friendly to new users and I think there's some pretty obvious steps that need to be taken before "regular" people will even start thinking about joining.
In other news, doctor prescribes a bandaid to GSW victim
I understand that Peertube isn't trying to be YouTube, specifically from a monetization point of view. However I'm still looking for pretty much the same thing from Peertube as I do from YouTube; to watch interesting videos and follow creators. I get what you're saying about the Fediverse being different and having benefits like choice, freedom, and control, and I appreciate that, but at the end of the day, just trying to consume content on Peertube right now isn't a great experience.
As far as being able to watch without an account and interacting with a Mastodon or other federated account, I do think that's great, but I go to Mastodon when I want to see text/photo posts. If I want video I would like to go to Peertube and find high quality videos I'm interested in. Plus searching for topics/hashtags like you mentioned will bring more than just video results, and again if I want video I'm usually looking on a video platform and if I want text/photos I'm looking on those platforms. Plus most Mastodon apps don't have great video players so again it's just not a great video consuming experience.
And honestly I wouldn't mind a secondary algorithm feed that shows me videos I might be interested in. Obviously I don't want the entire platform to be just that as that's one of my biggest problems with traditional platforms. But a feed tuned to my interests that I can choose to check out would honestly be great in my opinion. Again obviously I would still want the default to be a "subscription" feed that only shows creators I'm subscribed to, but sometimes I want to be able to find new videos and creators.
Worst part of this is nuclear regulation really does need rewritten but this administration somehow finds the worst way to do everything.
Do they publish a list anywhere? I'd love to see what they're using and see if I can get it into CoMaps somehow