Spring 83: a draft protocol intended to suggest new ways of relating online
https://github.com/robinsloan/spring-83
#HackerNews #Spring83 #draftprotocol #onlineinteraction #newwaysofrelating #techinnovation
The week before last I had the opportunity to deliver a "flash talk" at a work meetup. I opted to present a summary of what I've learned while adding support for Finger and Gopher protocols to the WordPress installation that powers DanQ.me (I also hinted at the fact that I already added Gemini and Spring '83 support, and I'm looking at other protocols).
The presentation is a shortened, Automattic-centric version of a talk I'll be delivering at Oxford Geek Nights tomorrow. If you're in or around Jericho, Oxford tomorrow, come say hi!
Read more or watch at: https://danq.me/yesterdays-internet-today-vienna
#finger #Gopher #Gemini #Spring83 #WordPress #Automattic #Oxford
I'm hoping to be speaking at Oxford Geek Nights 53 (22 Feb 2023, https://oxford.geeknights.net/)!
My working title: "Yesterday's Internet: Today!" I'm hoping to drum up some local interest in retro tech like Gopher and Finger as well as modern homages like Gemini and Spring '83!
#Oxford #OGN53 #internet #tech #gopher #finger #gemini #spring83
> You feel it, don’t you? They’re all crumbling, the platforms of the last decade. It’s unsettling, but/and also undeniably exciting. Tall trees fall in the forest, and light streams down, nourishing places it hasn’t reached in ages.
#Spring83 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83/#summer
> Indeed, I want to make a case for protocols — for whole little social networks — as investigations and experiments. It doesn’t take a million users, or a thousand, or even a hundred, to learn genuinely interesting and important things: about the protocols themselves, about new ways of relating online, about people in all their glorious weirdness.
#Spring83 summer update: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83/#summer
now i want to be able to follow an instance. not their firehose-local feed, but rather a daily (or hourly) digest. #AlgorithmHeresy: for each instance i'm following, each hour give me a random post from the list of the top 5 posts from that instance, ranked by - honestly idc how it's ranked! fine, do it reverse-cron if you insit. or by boost count. or by follower count. or fully random. just spice things up a little!
@junosz Yes.
And I want to see it laid out like a bulletin board, in one screen.
cc #Spring83 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/specifying-spring-83/
I've spent the summer playing with Robin Sloan's #Spring83 protocol but it's only now, as its nights get longer, that I've finally finished the key functionality of the server I wanted to implement - STS-6:
Finally got around to implementing a super-lightweight (~20 lines of code, 1 dependency) Spring '83 key generator. There are plenty of others; nobody needs this one, but it's free if you want it:
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