ActivityPods and a social life that can span apps
Trying a new social app should let you build on the posts and relationships you already have. Starting with an empty profile and finding everyone again makes experimenting expensive. It asks people to reconstruct a social life just to find out whether a different tool suits them.
ActivityPods brings personal data storage and social networking together. It is a framework for building ActivityPub-compatible apps around data held in a person's Pod. That gives developers a way to work with shared social data while offering different experiences around it.
The useful idea is that an app can become another way to take part in an existing social life. A tool for a particular interest should have room to connect with the people and material that already matter to you. It should earn its place through what it helps you do.
TouchGrass's work on Pod storage and ActivityPods-compatible resources follows that interest in app choice. We judge open technology by the freedom it can put into people's hands. Being able to try something new while retaining useful parts of what came before is a goal worth building towards.
ActivityPods brings personal data storage and social networking together. It is a framework for building ActivityPub-compatible apps around data held in a person's Pod. That gives developers a way to work with shared social data while offering different experiences around it.
The useful idea is that an app can become another way to take part in an existing social life. A tool for a particular interest should have room to connect with the people and material that already matter to you. It should earn its place through what it helps you do.
TouchGrass's work on Pod storage and ActivityPods-compatible resources follows that interest in app choice. We judge open technology by the freedom it can put into people's hands. Being able to try something new while retaining useful parts of what came before is a goal worth building towards.