2020-10-17

• The [[Agora]] in a nutshell:
  • It is a [[convention based social network]]; a layer over the existent internet.
  • It runs wherever there is used generated content. It is user-controlled, even in corp-controlled platforms.
  • Wherever users can write text, they can [[annotate]] as per an established convention.
  • [[wikilinks]] are ubiquituous [[tags]]. Browser extensions can easily auto-link them to whenever the user wants to; for example, to a hub repository of them (https://flancia.org/go/agora-protocol is my current proposal, but that’s just a detail; the most useful convention should win).
  • Images (like those you can attach in, say, [[twitter]] or [[mastodon]]) can encode information; think of attaching QR codes to every tweet using a custom client). Or just screenshots, optionally post-processed (OCR’d) or making use of [[stenographic techniques]].
  • The Agora includes designated hubs where all annotations can be consolidated into a [[distributed knowledge graph]].
  • Special applications might be possible. Note that the Agora might presumably break open [[walled gardens]].
• [[burning temple]]: https://twitter.com/harveykrishna_/status/1306294024790331394 pull [[kinkaku-ji]]
• Discussed possible projects in [[zulip]].
• [[jonathan-the-utopian]] works in [[category theory]]! exchanged voice messages.