kcl-digital-humanities-garden/_notes/unwalled-garden.md

date
2021-04-18

An open protocol for building social Web applications.

Part of the Beaker browser project.

Unwalled.Garden is a kind of “Souped up RSS.” Every user has a website, they publish their content as files, and they subscribe to each others’ sites.

While RSS was primarily for blogging, Unwalled.Garden includes data types for many kinds of use-cases. These data types are spread across many JSON files which have pre-defined schemas.

The schemas are simple, obvious, and syntax-free. A “post” record looks like this:

{
  "type": "unwalled.garden/post",
  "body": "Hello, world!",
  "createdAt": "2019-05-21T21:27:45.471Z"
}

https://unwalled.garden/