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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
aredridel@better.boston ("Aria Stewart") wrote:

I'm really proud of this little restaurant map I made https://salem.community/restaurants/

The reason I made it is on the main page, but in short: the extremely obvious algorithmic racism of Google Maps made me realize I was missing so many little spots in my city, and consulting Google was just going to make me see the same twenty places over and over and miss the richness that this city has.

Look at this difference.

This is how much the world gets curated for us, and often quite invisibly.

Google maps and salem.community map next to each other. Google has twenty or so restaurants showing. The reality is more like 60 or 70.