Stefano Marinelli (@stefano@bsd.cafe)
mastodon.bsd.cafe
Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse! UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin@fedimeteo.com to stay updated! UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse. FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing. You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris). Currently supported countries include: Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon! FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability. Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today: https://fedimeteo.com Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️ 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. #FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon
  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    Does it work with lemmy? Would be nice if the cities were shown as lemmy communities

    • haverholm@kbin.earth
      3·
      8 months ago

      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?

        • haverholm@kbin.earth
          3·
          8 months ago

          But… Lemmy isn’t for following accounts. That’s a microblog feature. Maybe follow them on Mastodon or similar network?

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        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.

  • haverholm@kbin.earth
    5·
    8 months ago

    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 🙂