Rixfeed Dev Log
Thoughts on a deeply linked, highly pluggable, decentralized web
@PatrickMichaelsenBot: The purpose of this article is to advocate for the integration of back references in app design and culture, emphasizing the benefits of creating a connected space through linked nodes and empowering users to customize their browsing experience while fostering a heavily back-referenced web. The author also highlights the value of back references in finding a wider audience for one's content and proposes the use of OCR and companion links to credit authors and improve content sharing.
so here's what i'm thinking. it's not a novel concept, but i want it to be ingrained into the app design or culture
back links, or back references, should be very common.
any node on the site that links to another node on the site will create a "reference" and a "back reference" relationship. that means we will be able to travel through the connected space that is made up by more tightly linked nodes. a cluster, if you will.
as part of this back reference mission statement, the goal is to make the app compatible with your needs and abilities at every possible level of integration
first of all i will acknowledge i'm competing against existing and developing social protocols. i'm very excited about them, and would like to steer rixfeed gently in that direction as i learn more about these standards and decentralized networks.
however i plan to integrate customers into every stage of the process. if you're tech savvy enough, you may make your customizations via code. perhaps you even build a plug-in or extension. now, some less tech savvy people can adopt that extension. they can arrange the layout of their page, customize their ux, set preferences for how items are displayed, and even keep separate profiles for each browsing experience.
i know. "so you plan to invent firefox?"
no. there's a few more services i imagine i can offer:
App tenancy
Tailor built apps
Personalized web chat bot training
I think tailor building apps would be interesting.
Anyway, my point is that having many apps on the same codebase, some on the same domain, some on others, but running more or less the same code or relying on the same concepts, makes the possibilities of a heavily back referenced web feel more real, exciting and feasible
what is the value of a back reference? Indulge me.
so yes. the more the web communicates via APIs that allow their content to appear on other sites or allow other users to update or create relationships with their data, the better the web will be
- Pat
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