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Re: A Personal API

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Post by anchpop »

cxr wrote: post #48

More prior art: pfrazee.hashbase.io has been working on this sort of thing in unwalled.garden, but was last seen going off into the weeds to focus on yak-shaving and schema-polishing. The predecessor to unwalled.garden (fritter.hashbase.io) also bears some resemblance to the author's Socii. It would be neat to see Socii "rebased" onto Dat and Fritter, but also made to work for legacy plebs still on the legacy web, an…

> More prior art: pfrazee.hashbase.io has been working on this sort of thing in unwalled.garden, but was last seen going off into the weeds to focus on yak-shaving and schema-polishing.

As far as I can tell right now the author is mostly working on UI/UX improvements right now, what gives you the impression that he's yak shaving?

Re: A Personal API

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Post by NetOpWibby »

azinman2 wrote: post #36

So I love the ambition - especially as a way to decouple services and encourage interop. But in the end, isn’t this kind of thing typically a lowest common denominator approach? For example, Spotify or iTunes specific features/integrations either get lost or get added as an extension, to the point where you’re only worse off the main service’s APIs (which will be always up to date and are still required to be up, and…

That's an interesting idea but unfortunately we're limited by the walled gardens of the devices and platforms we use. We'd need sufficiently strong outside sources to entice companies to give us raw access to our health and things like that.

Until then, this personal API concept is the best thing I could think of.

Re: A Personal API

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Post by NetOpWibby »

ivoras wrote: post #41

Interesting idea - but it boils down to being a workaround for the lack of persistently connected and pervasively VPN-ed personal devices around us. Yes, we could have a VPS per person being our fixed point on the Internet (and a fixed address...) but wouldn't it be better to return to the original idea of the Internet with devices always connected and routable? It might take an overlay network such as a DHT-like thi…

> wouldn't it be better to return to the original idea of the Internet with devices always connected and routable?

Yes. However, I'd still like to do something in the meantime. There's no telling how long an overlay network would take to implement and release.

Re: A Personal API

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Post by anon1m0us »

oever wrote: post #11

The Solid project by Tim Berners Lee has the same idea. People have a personal data POD with an API to interact with. Social websites pull data from there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...

I think this is the way of the future and it's exciting to think about. Who you are is yours, not some other social media sites. You control what is and is not available. That would be good.

Re: A Personal API

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Post by cxr »

anchpop wrote: post #51
cxr wrote: post #48

More prior art: pfrazee.hashbase.io has been working on this sort of thing in unwalled.garden, but was last seen going off into the weeds to focus on yak-shaving and schema-polishing. The predecessor to unwalled.garden (fritter.hashbase.io) also bears some resemblance to the author's Socii. It would be neat to see Socii "rebased" onto Dat and Fritter, but also made to work for legacy plebs still on the legacy web, an…

> More prior art: pfrazee.hashbase.io has been working on this sort of thing in unwalled.garden, but was last seen going off into the weeds to focus on yak-shaving and schema-polishing. As far as I can tell right now the author is mostly working on UI/UX improvements right now, what gives you the impression that he's yak shaving?

Past experience from having seen quite a few yaks in my day.
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