toastclub / pinefore

Tools for a kinder web

Pinefore is a new type of internet service, or rather, an old one revitalized for a modern era. It is an internet service that, from the very beginning, has been designed consciously in ways that empower our users. It is a service that intends to foster diversity in our web, at a time when the largest companies are attacking it. It is the result of hundreds of hours spent examining the cultural shifts between 2000-2015. We pine for beautiful gardens of home grown content — bastions of individuality. Through every method possible, our goal is to encourage their growth.

Pinefore plans to launch with full protocol support for ActivityPub (est. 2018); Delicious/Pinboard (est. 2005); RSS (est. 1999); Google Reader (est. 2005); Fever (est. 2013). Soon, we will add support for WebMention; ???

We currently are launching with tightly integrated and communal: Bookmarking, RSS, and Annotations; and we plan to add support for: Croundfunding à la Coil, "Small Search", and Anything else that could foster the indieweb

We are not taking investments. That would be contrary to our goals.

OSS

Given the nature of our service, most of our "proprietary technology" would be beneficial to the web community as a whole. As a result, we've open sourced most of the interesting bits. We believe a rising tide lifts all boats. All the code here is identical to what is in production.

OSS has the following additional advantages:

• Documentation is inherently more ambiguous than code
• Users can verify their data is stored responsibly

Notes

• There are no docs here. That's due to an edgecase in our build system, arising from symlinks
• Contributions are accepted, however local development is expected to be difficult
• The database schema is not included
• The package.json is currently not included, due to the file system structure