# Welcome to the [[Agora of Flancia]]! This *[Agora](https://flancia.org/agora)* is a [[Free]] [[Knowledge]] [[Commons]] built by people for the benefit of all beings. Which people, you ask? In the case of this particular Agora: us [[Flancians]] -- and our [[friends]]! # Navigating A quick tour of the Agora will hopefully communicate the intentions of the project better than many words of introduction. - See the list of all [[Nodes]]. - A Node is a set of resources (mostly text notes and images) that are relevant for a query or location. - See the [[Users]] who contributed resources to this Agora so far. - A User is anyone who has contributed resources to the Agora Commons, either as part of a repository or individually through social media. - See node [[Index]] for the community-maintained index of this Agora, which is richer than this one, and will be embedded or "pulled" for you below. - See special node [[Random]] for a random node out of the many thousands gathered so far. Warning: can be addictive :). # Joining This Agora is a bit different from most other sites around the internet in that joining is a **two step process** that begins somewhere else. In a nutshell, it is a two step process: - First you take notes/write/make posts in the editor(s) or platform(s) of your choice. - Then you tell an Agora that you'd like to contribute those resources. ## Contributing notes and free form writing You can write to this Agora by taking notes using a [[personal knowledge management]] system like [[Obsidian]], [[Logseq]] or [[SilverBullet]], storing them in a repository, and telling us about it by writing to or reaching out over any of the other supported [[Agora channels]]. If you are "tech-savvy" (in this particular way) you can send a [[pull request]] adding your [[git]] repository to this Agora's [[sources.yaml]] specifying the username of your choice. If you can't make this work or even if you don't know what any of that means please [[reach out]] if interested so we can try to support you through the process :) ## Posting from social media You can write to this Agora straight from the [[Fediverse]]! To do so, follow the [[Agora Bot]] in a supported platform. - If you are in Mastodon/ActivityPub, you can follow . - If you are in [[Bluesky]], you can do the same with https://anagora.bsky.social. 'Interacting' here means writing posts containing at least one [[wikilink]], or opting in to #hashtag handling. Your posts will be linked and optionally cross-posted in text format to the matching Agora location. ## For more… - See [[Agora architecture]] for details on how the Agora works and instructions to run your own. - See [[Agora chapter]] for a ~20 page description of the vision behind the Agora and what we have accomplished so far, being the draft of a book chapter published in 2023. - Please [[reach out]] if you need anything, enjoy the Agora, and have a great day! 🍮