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  • balsoft@lemmy.mltoFediverse@lemmy.mlA solemn realization
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    2 days ago

    Cool!

    However,

    1. Plenty of bots here too
    2. The reason “low-effort” posts get more views/attention than “high-effort” ones is that humans have a limited attention span and everything is trying to grab it (ads, your phone, etc) to extract money out of it. Committing an hour of your life to watch a long high-quality video and learning something from it requires a lot more concentration and willpower than watching 60 1-minute short videos and laughing at each one - and ad interruptions are not as noticeable. It’s not necessarily a bot problem, more of an attention span/capitalism problem. This will also be the case in the Fediverse, to some extent, although likely less because there’s no monetization incentive.

  • Not an exact alternative (it’s missing reviews and photos are relatively rare), but I use OsmAnd for this. Most “official” trails (e.g. those maintained by the park administration, etc) are mapped on OpenStreetMap already. There’s also support for “Travel Routes” (I think they come from WikiTravel? Not sure); this covers the most popular “unofficial” routes. Once I ran out of those, I started just looking at mountains without trees but with a path to the summit marked on the map. This way, I’ve been able to find hikes for almost every weekend for three years now (definitely over 100 at this point) in a tiny country (Georgia); I’ve obviously had some misses (paths being overgrown, trails being meh, etc) but overall I’ve found it really nice.