Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

mastodon.bsd.cafe

Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@bsd.cafe)

Blahaj Lemmy Meta @lemmy.blahaj.zone

pewgar_seemsimandroid @lemmy.blahaj.zone

5mo ago

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse! (are we gonna be federated?)

mastodon.bsd.cafe /@stefano/113758416011174664

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Hold on, let me check the weather.
Huh.....
What? What's it say?
It says it's going to be a high of 66, a low of 38, and cloudy with a chance of Linux in the air. That can't right....
No, that sounds right. It's been Linuxing all week.
What.....
- From the point of view from BSD.cafe I assume Linuxing weather is bad, right?
- Linux -> penguins -> cold -> snow
  Makes sense.
  A high of 66 though definitely sounds like an issue!
- Year of the Linux storm.
Does it work with lemmy? Would be nice if the cities were shown as lemmy communities
- Probably not —
  You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms)
  AFAIK the Lemmy/Mastodon compatibility isn't great as they use activitypub for different purposes.
  Besides, what would be the point of posting weather reports on Lemmy? So you can discuss their accuracy?
  
  Nah, so you can follow them
  
  It would be Interesting to have a way to use it as a kind of plug-in on Lemmy, especially for location specific instances, especially ones that love talking about the weather, rather than our feelings.
FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.
That's a lovely anecdote, but also an argument against keeping up with weather prognoses — if you've already decided your preferred outcome based on your plans and desires for the next day 🙂
That’s a really cool use for snac! It’s perfect for something so straightforward and uses so little resources that I would imagine if you eventually have the entire planets weather forecasts being published it would still only use a tiny amount of bandwidth and power!
- I though the same. This is a cool example of "public service" via snac.
  
  Indeed! Kinda makes me want to come up with some sort of “snac-service” idea.
Currently supported countries include:
\ Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands – with many more regions coming soon!
Bro. Harsh.

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