I’m posting over at werd.io, a site I’ve set up based on my idno software.
I wrote a short technical introduction to the platform:
idno is a personal attempt at building a publishing platform that adheres to IndieWeb principles: own your own data, publish on your own site, use existing social websites for dissemination but not as an origin. I’ve also tried to use microformats where possible, allowing every page to contain lightweight semantic information, as well as making it skinnable, extensible, and social.
Right now I’m using it as a blog, but the intention is that it could power a whole community, or set of communities. It certainly has the back-end functionality and APIs to do so, and I’ll be writing more about those as time goes on. It’s not immediately obvious unless you’re logged in, but idno has a full plugin system, which allows anyone to write new content types, and syndicate to new sites. (For example, two existing non-core plugins push to Twitter and Facebook, depending on the Activity Streams object type of the content you’re posting.) Access permissions are also baked right into the data model, so you’ll be able to keep non-public content, and share it in a federated way.
I’m pretty excited about it – but I’m also just enjoying posting to it. It’s a breeze. I’ll be opening a community site based on the platform soon, so stay tuned – or take a peek at the GitHub repository.
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