garden/agora.md

Agora

• The Agora is a distributed knowledge graph and experimental social network.
  • The aim of this agora is to pro-socially maintain a distributed knowledge graph tailored specifically to the general goal of solving problems: those of its users and society at large..
  • As an Agora guest user or reader you can currently:
    • Navigate the Agora, which is composed of nodes which aggregate content from many users about the same topic or entity.
    • Make use of backlinks and pulled nodes to discover relevant content.
  • As an Agora full user or writer you can:
    • Have your content be surfaced to readers at relevant times (when they are visiting a node for which your content is considered relevant by the community).
    • Have relevant content be surfaced to you as you traverse your personal knowledge graph.
    • Make use of agora actions.
    • See agora editor to join!
• Anyone can run an Agora of their own if they so desire. This Agora is open source: go/agora.
  • The agora is in the federation! Add it now: @agora@botsin.space, https://twitter.com/an_agora.
  • This agora includes agora search.
  • To run an Agora, please refer to https://anagora.org/go/agora.
• To sign up for the Agora, which means volunteering your writing and media to it, please consult agora editor.
  • In a nutshell: you need to put your content, which can be plain text or markdown if you're into that sort of thing, somewhere online. https://github.com and https://gitlab.com both work fine for this. This amounts to publishing a blog or digital garden online. The Agora doesn't host your data, but rather pulls it from a location you control and renders it for you and other users; it interlinks your data with that of other users as you wish.
  • The Agora wants to be maximally inclusive, but it is in its infancy; it is a work in progress. If you want to participate and can't, please also send email to signup@anagora.org to let us know. Through projects such as agora twitter integration, we hope to make the Agora available to anyone that has access to a social network account. If you want to learn more about the experimental nature of this Agora, please refer to this Hacker News comment. If you want to keep up to date with development, consider adding me on Twitter or Mastodon: flancian.

The following section works as an example of the agora protocol.

• an agora.
  • push agoras
  • git https://github.com/flancian/agora
    • go git
  • server https://github.com/flancian/agora-server
  • bridge https://github.com/flancian/agora-bridge
  • bugs https://github.com/flancian/agora/issues
  • bug https://github.com/flancian/agora/issues/new
  • push schelling points
    • This agora tries to be a schelling point.
  • pull agora editor