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Airplane tracking & metadata aggregation via community efforts.
 
ACARS, VDL, HFDL, SATCOM. Unblocked, unfiltered, uncontrolled.

Spearheaded by @[email protected].

Websitehttps://airframes.io
GitHubhttps://github.com/airframesio
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/airframesio
Flight Tracking on Instagram and Threads got Zucked
It’s wild how tracking public info can be so controversial, my flight tracking accounts on Instagram and Threads hadn’t violated rules for years. The only account that was suspended before yesterday was the Taylor Swifts jet tracking account, when Swifts team requested Meta to remove the account last Dec/Jan

I don’t know solidly know who or what the motivator here was for Meta. Suddenly they care about something they haven’t for years?

Imagine if we had the **actual** ACARS logs for MH370.

Yeah, that's why we exist.

We designed and are selling a Meshtastic 915mhz cavity filter.
#airwaves

https://shop.airframes.io/products/lora-915mhz-filter

Batch #1 and #2 sold out, and #3 approaching. #4 will cost more.

Meshtastic LoRa 906.875mhz Cavity Filter

It's a little weird. We spend $120/mo to run https://airwaves.social but then we're not posting on Airwaves Social regularly?

Pretty freaking dumb.

Time to change that.

Airwaves Social

The Airwaves Social mastodon server is radio hobby & industry focused on topics such as flight & ship tracking, amateur radio, satellites, and more. Sponsored by Airframes, but an effort for all.

Mastodon hosted on airwaves.social

Airwaves Social users:

Storage costs on Masto.Host are quite high. It has surpassed our budget, & is now nearly 10x the cost of when we were running our own instance. We are using 1TB of storage & S3-like is not a feature available on masto.host.

This is because of bot users that post alerts of Ships/Flights with attachments.

We are bot friendly, but we do encourage all bot owners to set their accounts to delete posts older than 30 days, as relevancy of automated content goes down quickly.

A air waves.social kind of works from the Apple Vision Pro, using Ice Cubes, but it wasn’t easy. Took 15 minutes… corrections.
Performing maintenance on the Airwaves Social mastodon instance (https://airwaves.social) over the next 2 hours. We are migrating to a new host that will be more resilient, performant, etc.
Airwaves Social

The Airwaves Social mastodon server is radio hobby & industry focused on topics such as flight & ship tracking, amateur radio, satellites, and more. Sponsored by Airframes, but an effort for all.

Mastodon hosted on airwaves.social
And yes, we are storing every single one of these. For as long as we can afford to do that.