Stuff I do:
💻 write community organising software 👉https://fosstodon.org/@karrot
🌳 grow food 👉 https://bath.social/@DryArchGrowers
♥️ local solidarity 👉 https://bathsolidarity.city
📚 lend my books 👉 https://inventaire.io/inventory/nicksellen
🕰️ Previously 👉 https://social.coop/@nicksellen (joined 2018)
| website | https://nicksellen.co.uk |
| pronouns | he/him |
| location | UK |
Maps.me lost trust of the community (https://telegra.ph/What-happened-to-the-old-MAPSME-12-20) and Organic Maps was born (2020) 🥳
... then Organic Maps lost trust of the community (https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c) and CoMaps was born (2025) 🥳
Looking forward to CoMaps losing the trust of the community (should be in 2030 by my estimate), and the new fork! 🥳
Long live open source forking! 🍴
TL;DR: MAPS.ME got bought by a payments company and completely rewritten, I want it back. I will rebuild the original app and bring it back. Sign up for this email list to get the original version back. Or subscribe to this Telegram channel. On December 20th, 2020, version 2.0 of the MAPS.ME app got pushed to the Apple App Store. It is expected to land on Android in the coming days. This is due to the app being sold off to a South Korean payments company. What changed? Compare these two images.
I made an experimental mastodon invite qr code sticker generator - the idea is to put them up locally, on lampposts, etc...
It's experimental as I didn't actually try getting the stickers printed yet... sizing might be off... from a quick look 7cm x 7cm seemed a reasonable size.
You can generate and download stickers (or rather an image) for your own instance at https://nicksellen.co.uk/qr/ - and customize the message. It runs entirely in the browser.
Argh, I'd really like to build up a local tech collective here that can support more liberatory tech...
Small projects, e.g. community gardens, often struggle with wordpress websites, and I get asked to help...
... but I don't want to be the sucker hidden away maintaining ancient wordpress sites for free/little money for years... (that probably people hardly visit anyway).
Anyone have advice/tips/experiences here?
Ok folks. This really is it. 130,000 members of the Green Party and climbing.
Reform have c.250,000 and that's been pretty static for months now.
Imagine if the Greens could get more?
You know what to do.
Tell your friends, relatives, neighbours, colleagues, everyone to join. If we can get even just a couple of new members each, this would make a HUGE difference. Member rates are scaled to suit what you can afford.
Go on! You know you want to! 💚💪
https://join.greenparty.org.uk/
https://bsky.app/profile/zackpolanski.bsky.social/post/3m3l55eczxs2r
Karrot (@karrot) is a free and open source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. @kim caught up with Karrot team member @nicksellen for the lowdown.
... they did reply in the end, but not very helpfully, just suggested it was because of high volume of new signups (I don't believe that was the cause of the issue), and I could email my details through instead.
Then I had a hunch that my fairly long/complex password might be the issue, and it was!
I changed from a 29 character password to a 12 character one and joining worked. Not sure what made the difference, but hey ho, I'm a member now!
... still failing... and no reply to my email. not very impressed.
Maybe @bathnesgreens can help?
@douginamug we have automatic group removal based on inactivity
this was in response to https://foodsharing.de where a person has to do in manually, which has lots of dynamics...
(our one can still be gamed, just visiting the site to stay in the group, but not actually doing anything, it has been requested it would look at actual signups to doing stuff to check "activity level")
I like composting metaphors here, let things cycle...
Dr Tess Machling
Geeks for Social Change
