Experimental Social Network
Welcome to [[boris mann]]'s section of the agora!
We're experimenting with [[Connecting to the Agora]], and what some of the configurations and conventions are. The [[Anagora]] page has my notes and feature requests.
Agora
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The Agora is a distributed knowledge graph and experimental social network.
- See [[go/agora-slides]] if you'd like a 10' introduction to the key concepts.
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The [[agora]] you're likely reading this in,
anagora.org, is just one of many.- Anyone can run an Agora of their own if they so desire. This Agora is [[open source]]: [[go/agora]].
- To [[sign up]] for the Agora, which means volunteering your writing and media to it, please consult [[agora editor]].
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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]].
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This [[agora]] is in [[social media]].
- [[mastodon]] https://botsin.space/@agora
- [[twitter]] https://twitter.com/an_agora
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This [[agora]] is in [[social media]].
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Agoras are spaces kept by communities with [[good intent]] while expressing explicit [[goals]] and open [[protocols]].
- This section, made up of items in a [[markdown]] list, is an example of an Agora protocol.
- This [[agora protocol]] is a set of simple conventions on top of [[plain text]] or other [[supported formats]].
- [[pull]] [[agora howto]] [[an agora]]
- [[git]] https://github.com/flancian/agora
An agora, in its broadest sense, is a conceptual space where people attempt to bring an increased level of intentionality, explicitness, and mutual agreement to the principles and protocols for interacting in that space. A further aspect of the idea of an Agora is that it is a space which enables collaboration. In particular, it is a space that allows for collaboration guided by specific shared interests, without requiring the co-consitutients of the agora to be aligned more fully or generally in terms of their intentions, values, etc.
Some topics that the idea of an Agora is related to: [[transparency]] [[decentralized structures]] [[egalitarian principles]] [[judgement]] [[algorithms of interaction]] [[communication]] [[collaboration]] [[knowledge sharing]]
There are (infinitely) many possible variants of how this idea might be implemented in concrete, real-world situations. For example, an agora could be a space that is opened up inside a conversation between two people. Or it could be a collaborative project that is accompanied by specified rules. Or it could be a collective agreement about how to handle certain types of situations.
One variant of the idea of an Agora is a place where personal notes are shared, with the common goal of pooling information and sharing knowledge. One implementation of this idea is https://anagora.org. See also https://flancia.org/go/agora.
The term "Agora" and the basic idea come from [[Flancia]].
Agora
This looks like a really cool way of aggregating digital gardens into one place. To produce a community garden (or, an agora). Interesting to contrast with how a solely P2P way of connecting gardens might work, no central aggregator.
An Agora is a distributed, goal-oriented social network centered around a cooperatively built and maintained [[knowledge graph]]. The implementation you are currently looking at tries to assemble such a graph out of a collection of digital gardens.
See also [[sister sites]].
See: [[What do I think about the Agora?]]
Agora
- [[agora containers]]
- [[agora ext]]
- [[agora-server]]
- [[agora ctzn]]