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"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)
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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OSM is run by a foundation - https://www.openstreetmap.org/about

This makes it a lot more difficult to cock it up compared to a shareholder run company.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Thanks. I'll continue my small contributions then.

If anyone want to help I can recommend StreetComplete. It's a bit like pokemon go, but you'll help improve the map of the world instead. Only in android now I think.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

OSM is good people and very much within the FOSS ethos as far as I can tell. Their Humanitarian work is just awesome: https://www.hotosm.org/

[–] curiousPJ@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Ohhh interesting, just grabbed it on F-droid. I'll be playing around with this for a while.

[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Downloading now

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh I should do that, I'm often in new builds and redevelopments, I'd think that's where it's needed most?

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it's needed everywhere. I can start it wherever I happen to be and find a lot of "quests/tasks" to complete.

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks yeah I've downloded it and there are loads of little quests, I'll give it a try