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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)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] CAVOK 70 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I'm contributing to openstreetmap because I think there should be a free alternative to Google or Apple maps.

Am I running the risk of having my contributions stolen?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (7 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 29 points 1 year ago (6 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.

[–] curiousPJ 6 points 1 year ago

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

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