django-rest-framework-gis VS go-littr

Is this something similar to OpenWISP? It all sounds cool, but might be an overkill for small installations…

[0] https://openwisp.org/

Haven't tried it yet, but I think OpenWISP is what you want.

or https://openwisp.org/

All my searches are pointing to OpenWISP

The only "single pane of glass" open source solution I've found like this is OpenWISP. It works along with OpenWR based devices.

I guess if you want to see what is out there, take a look and openwrt and openwisp

OpenWRT is missing a big piece of the puzzle: configuration management and the ability to work with a "controller". OpenWRT is currently great at running stand-alone but has essentially zero support for being part of a "fleet" of devices managed centrally.

This means something as simple as changing the network name or password requires changing it on every single access point manually, and even worse if your mesh system relies on sharing frequently-changing state between devices.

OpenWISP tries to address this problem: https://openwisp.org - I suggest you check it out and solve the configuration management problem first.

The actual "mesh" part is actually relatively easy. Most commercial systems use basic Linux networking tools, HostAPd (sometimes with custom improvements, but this all ends up upstreamed or reimplemented upstream given enough time) and custom glue code to tie them together. A "mesh" system is typically a user-facing network being broadcast by all APs (with shared settings such as name and password) and an invisible, "backhaul" network each AP hosts (either on a separate interface or on the same interface as the AP - I believe some wireless cards can act both as AP and station as long as the channel is the same) and the other in the path connects to, and the glue code handles configuring all of that. 802.11s is also an option that can be used, and I'm pretty sure all of this is already possible to configure manually in Linux - what's lacking is the "glue code" to set up & manage all of this automatically.

In your project did you end up deploying something like django-rest-framework-gis? I have found great results with it. Mainly using PSQL as the backend. I found that the built in Django GeoJSON Serializer can become a little slow with polys like land parcels but it will get the job done and if you can get way without deploying DRF then it maybe worth the trade off.

If you're interested in Go, I develop such a project and the plumbing required for it.

The code is at https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr and you can check it out at https://brutalinks.tech

For people favouring to the old reddit interface more, I created another federated alternative: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr (with an example instance at https://brutalinks.tech).

Sadly it received less publicity and mind share than lemmy, so not everything might be up to the expectations of the HN crowd.

The code is on github: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr An example is at: https://littr.me Status: not done.

Considering it's received HN's kiss-of-death, perhaps a pointer to the code is useful: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr

If you're interested in another option to lotide, I'm working on a very similar project to it, called brutalinks. You can check it out an example instance at https://brutalinks.tech. The code is on github and sourcehut.

I started a go project to create a link aggregator similar to HN and old reddit, but built on top of ActivityPub.

It's targeted at small to medium communities, but at the same time it can reach outward through the federation mechanism that ActivityPub provides. Outside of immediate support to intercommunicate with other instances of its own platform, it will handle interactions from the larger fediverse at large: Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc.

Currently this is a one man project, namely me, and I would welcome support in any area that people could help: development, design, documentation, graphics, copy, etc.

The project can be found at https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr, and if anyone is interested there is a mailing list where people can get in touch: https://lists.sr.ht/~mariusor/activitypub-go

Some details about the project can be found on its wiki: https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/index....

https://littr.me/ is another federated reddit-like project under development, a "link aggregator" as they call it. https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr

I see that people already recommended lemmy, but if you're looking for something closer to old reddit and hacker news I am working on https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr. An example instance is at https://littr.me

I'm building something that could help in this regard: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr

It's a distillation of the early reddit into a discussion platform that speaks activitypub. This means that the goal is not to have "one site" to rule them all, but that communities can each create their own and then interact with others if they chose to.

An demo instance is at https://littr.me