Friends don't let friends use what 3 words

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What 3 Words is a Mess – Our opinion is that the proprietary W3W serivce is unhelpful and dangerous. This site is not affiliate with What3Words. "W3W" is a trademark of What3Words Ltd

@onepict ouch! I knew they were proprietary junk but not that they were problematic to these amounts in so many regards and TIL that they shat down whatfreewords.org as FOSS alternative. 🀬
@mirabilos
They also shut down other alternatives (whatthreefucks, whatthreedarns) and even got the source code for the (better) tech they used taken down. I think I may have a copy somewhere though? I semi-remember cloning it...
@onepict
@ddlyh @onepict all the more reason to boycott them
@mirabilos @ddlyh @onepict give three fucks
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@onepict Without RTFA (because I am a jerk, but also testing how predictable this eventuality is), I assume they haven't done anything about that whole "phonetically ambiguous words" thing? πŸ™„

@onepict

I would suggest Four King Words as an excellent alternative.

https://www.fourkingmaps.co.uk/what/

This service contains a lot of profanity though so please note this as a warning πŸ™‚πŸ‘

Four King Maps - Fucking good maps

@onepict Never understood why they tried to establish a geolocation scheme where neighboring cells are coded by completely different word combinations instead of using a hierarchical approach like in ham radio locators.

@mschomm Possibly because the idea didn't really come from technical folks.

It was founded by a music promoter from my memory.