"BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please!

I like the concept of the iOS/Android app BeReal. Your app tells you randomly during the day that you have to take a combined picture (frond and back camera). So you don’t have much time to prepare. Then this pic is uploaded and friends who follow you can see it.

Wouldn’t that be cool to have this also as a part in the Fediverse, so with open source technology and dezentralized. What do you think? Maybe there are already plans to build such a thing. I would love to see this! 🤩 Anybody else?

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

All of this is the opposite of being real. People who are actually real have no attraction to publishing what they are doing to their friends at random times.

matze OP ,

So you know what real people are doing and what fake people are doing.

onion ,

You could share the pictures in a Signal group, maybe something like IFTTT can send the notification?

wildbus8979 ,

Signal has stories now too!

matze OP ,

Not a bad idea, at least for the beginning. I never heard IFTTT before. Just checked it. May work. So the idea could be:

  • There is a bot that randomly texts a message in a Signal Group that one or all users shall send a picture now.
  • The group may have autodeletion of the pictures (after 24 hours).

Limitation:

  • No "Double Picture (at same time)"
  • There is no measurement by software if a picture is too late
  • There is propably no direct notification only to specific users.
  • There is no gaming thing where you get credits, when you are on time.
serpineslair ,

I don't know, personally I've never liked the idea behind that app. It seems like a massive privacy risk. I know if it is open source there is less of a risk, but I still don't like the idea of people being encouraged to constantly post themselves and their surroundings.

abominable_panda ,

This, as well as the fediverse's double edged feature that stuff pretty much can never be deleted (only "requested").

This sounds like a privacy nightmare

matze OP ,

Yeah i get your point. But if people want to take pictures of their live (with foreigners without asking them), then they can also do it now. But most of them are not doing it.

A few friends of mine have BeReal. and from time to time i watched reals of other people (who i also know personally). What i like is that you get a good impression what they are doing even though you do not see them often.

But yeah sometimes there might be people on it you did not agree to publish this foto.

On a centralized platform (with open source technology) there is probably less guarantee that the pictures are really deleted (after a few days) but maybe you should trust the sw developer/hoster.

RVGamer06 ,
@RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works avatar

The only reason i somehow trust BeReal is that the company behind it is French(therefore unescapably GDPR-compliant)

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