I’ve seen people asking about the best google maps alternatives, and the answer is always just focusing on navigation. For that we have plenty of great apps like CoMaps.
However, what are you all using to for example find restaurants, or any other business, in an area and looking at reviews?
The most important part of a review system is the number of users, which currently resides on the big websites like google maps and yelp. For any review app to be useful it needs to have a lot of users to make the reviews, but no one will use that app unless it has enough reviews to be useful.
A big point of the fediverse apps is building the infrastructure now, so it’s ready for a “moment” potentially that would bring more users
Unfortunately being the big sites that have the reviews and the revenue it brings they are motivated to skew the review results.
So back to square one.
i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect