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

• The Agora is a distributed knowledge graph and experimental social network.
  • See [[go/agora-slides]] if you'd like an introduction to the key concepts.
• 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 [[agora features]] to surface 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 crowdsourced content be surfaced to you as you traverse your [[notes repository]].
  • Make use of [[agora actions]] to control the agora straight from your ntoes.
    • Visit [[agora editor]] to join!
• 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]].

  • 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 [[agora]] is in the [[social media]].

    • [[mastodon]] https://botsin.space/@agora
    • [[twitter]] https://twitter.com/an_agora

The following section works as an example of the optional [[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
  • [[pull]] [[agora editor]]
• a [[schelling point]].
  • [[push]] [[schelling points]]

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

• https://anagora.org/

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.

– GitHub - flancian/agora

See also [[sister sites]].

Agora

• https://flancia.org/go/agora
• https://github.com/flancian/agora#whats-an-agora

• [[agora containers]]
• [[agora ext]]
• [[agora-server]]
• [[agora ctzn]]

in [[flancia]] there is an [[agora]]