gourami

Dependencies:

sqlite3

Goals:

• Activity-pub compatible
• UX Brutalism -- Expose, rather than hide, the fundamental components of HTML and the Web. The user interface may be jarring to some who are used to the modern web.
• Lightweight -- low energy usage, low resource usage. This makes the service much cheaper to host and enables it to run in contexts where other services may not be able to.
• Increased control over
• Completely free and open source software
• Highly customizable user experience
• Configurable for offline / local network usage
• Extreme accessibility

Maybe goals:

• Email and SMS interface

Non-goals:

• Scalability
• Certain anti-abuse and anti-spam features. This is designed to be used as a small-scale service with active moderation, not a service with open public registration.

Some inspiration/influences:

• Jenny Odell's discussion of adding context to social media in How to Do Nothing
• https://runyourown.social/
• https://joinmastodon.org/
• https://sourcehut.org/
• https://100r.co/site/mission.html
• https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html
• https://www.nycmesh.net/