I honestly had no idea that this existed. Messages is also useless until Google and Apple get their s*** together and figure out a cross plattform standard to communicate. Until then, I use third party apps.

Which, in this particular case, wouldn’t be a bad thing. Just integrate the community aspects into Google Maps, make them optional.

If you are a member of such a small community, be sure to create it here. Users will usually take a look at Lemmy and first search for their favorite topics. If they don’t find anything, they will go back to Reddit…