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Aral Balkan

What’s all this, then?

Oh, I started working on Place¹ this week, it’s a peer-to-peer web-based personal social network and the final piece of the Small Web, alongside Kitten², and Domain³.

I just started so there’s lots to do but I got the profile section working yesterday. Today, I’m onto implementing the follow protocol.

Just like Domain, Place is, of course, written in Kitten.

¹ codeberg.org/place/app
² kitten.small-web.org
³ codeberg.org/domain/app

Screenshot of Place running at https://dev.ar.al/settings/profile/. The profile image in the header and in the profile image updater control is an illustration of a cute smiling yellow star surrounded by multi-colour planets and stars. The title reads Aral Balkan and the bio “I am building the Small Web” (Small Web is in blue, it’s a link.) Then there’s a nav: Posts, Private messages, People, Notifications, Settings, Sign out. Settings is selected. Under that is the Settings section, in two columns. On the left, Profile is selected under the General section and there is an Advanced section with 💕 Place settings under it. On the right are controls for updating the image, name, and bio. The bio has Markdown in it.
#SmallWeb#Kitten#Place
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Cian O'Connor

@aral
Will this be integrated with Mastodon, or is it something else?

Aral Balkan

@cian It’s something else – a peer to peer web.

See: ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-com

Not saying it couldn’t interoperate at some level/point in the future but that’s not part of my current focus as the models are very different (ActivityPub/Mastodon is designed around servers with many “users”, the Small Web is designed for one server = one person, which means we can simplify many things and don’t need a bunch of stuff that’s in ActivityPub.) :)

Aral Balkan · Small Web: computer science colloquium at University of GroningenDownload the video and watch it with your favourite video player. Recording1 of the live stream of a computer science colloquium on the Small Web I presented at the University of Groningen on June 11th, 2024. (Transcript) Update: I was going back and forth between calling the personal social network Place and Yarn. In the talk, I refer to it as Yarn. As I’ve been working more on it, I’ve reverted to its original name, Place.
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