Why tho?
What's the use case for a ActPub based weather info service that wouldn't be adequately addressed by a basic API on an existing service?
Incidentally, FediMeteo uses the existing Open-Meteo API. The use case is just... you can follow your nearest city on Mastodon and get forecasts in your home feed?
If it works as a basic post bot I guess there's something to that, just seems and odd extra step when you're already using a phone/computer that likely already has some kind of weather widget built in.
I followed my city's feed so that I am regularly reminded of the weather and don't have to actively check a source for it. Let's see how long I follow it.
Activity Pub is a very popular way to decentralize.
With political uncertainty around centralized meteorological data infrastructure, it makes sense to continue the process of decentralization. The underlying APIs can be changed in the future if needed.
Wtf, why would they assume everyone lives in a city? Especially in France!
Most people live at least somewhere near a city that doesn't usually get radically different weather than where they do live.
From what I understand, this is just a start. They'll cover all regions and areas over time.
It may be a problem on my end, but the link doesn't work.
Strange. Here everything works fine ... https://fedimeteo.com
I'm stupid. The domain was being blocked by the "newly register domains" filters on of ControlD DNS.
Nah, shit just happens once in while. But nice that it works now, and hope the sun shines wherever you are 🌞 😎
Thank mate. Have a good day ;-)
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