From 152dfedfb57a06e6a6224d3edcb2c67b1dd2236b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Coquand Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:38:06 -0300 Subject: Fix more typos --- posts/design-pitch-ann.njk | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/posts/design-pitch-ann.njk b/posts/design-pitch-ann.njk index c121e2c..16fbe6c 100644 --- a/posts/design-pitch-ann.njk +++ b/posts/design-pitch-ann.njk @@ -4,23 +4,23 @@ title: Ann, the Small Annotation Server tags: post date: 2023-10-19 --- -

Ann is a minimal ActivityPub-based decentralised alternative social media built around Web Annotations. An annotation can be thought of a comment or a like on any piece of content. Ann allows you to store your annotations, send annotations your followers and receive annotations from people that you follow.

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Ann is a minimal ActivityPub-based decentralised alternative social media built around Web Annotations. An annotation can be thought of a comment, recommendatoin or a like on any piece of content. Ann allows you to store your annotations, send annotations your followers and receive annotations from people that you follow.

Ann is different from other social medias and federated social medias. It is not really meant to have a single webpage you go to where you see all your "Ann related content" (though you could built that). Instead, it is just a server, so on it's own it's not very usable. What does get cool is when you connect it to front-end applications, so for example some applications could be:

-Many applications, from LibreOffice, Logseq to video players could all benefit from having social functions to compete with centralised solutions like Notion, YouTube etc. Expecting each of these to implement servers for comments and annotations is not realistic. However with a self-hosted annotation server, these apps would only need to implement one integration. My vision with Ann is a web that is not dependant on having "web apps" with Javascript and trackers, but instead enable embedding annotation capabilities to our favourite applications in a way that gives us choice of how we want to consume content, respects our privacy and keeps us in control. +Many applications, from LibreOffice, Logseq to video players could all benefit from having social functions to compete with centralised solutions like Notion, YouTube etc. Expecting each of these to implement servers for comments and annotations is not realistic. However with a self-hosted annotation server, these apps would only need to implement one integration and users would only need to have one server running their application. My vision with Ann is a web that is not dependant on having "web apps" with Javascript and trackers, but instead enable embedding annotation capabilities to our favourite applications in a way that gives us choice of how we want to consume content, respects our privacy and keeps us in control.

-Sadly, Ann does not exist today and what I have atm. is not usable in any way. However, I have started working on it and you can follow the progress here. +Sadly, Ann does not exist today and what I have atm. is not usable in any way. However, I have started working on it and you can follow the progress here.

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