About

This website is part of the link network experiment.

The link network is an intentional web, created by people linking to people.

The network is built from rel=friend links, like XFN but in HTML5. The experiment is about building a JavaScript app that crawls and indexes the rel=friend space, discovering the network entirely on the client without relying on a backend server.

It's not a blog, a social network, or a protocol. It isn't federated. There are no accounts, no central server, and no shared state.

Make a website, not a profile. The app presents the network as timeline of update snapshots, a collaborative feed controlled by the edge.

Links are relationships, and you choose who to connect to.

If you want to try out the web app, add this site (https://lofihi.fi) to get started.

There are no docs, so you have to read the code to understand how it works.

Updates to my index.html page tests features of the app. The HTML code of those updates, and their history, is also a way to learn about what the app can do.

Sitemap

The index.html page is where I post updates and experiment with web app features.

I have a RSS feed that is like an archive of the index page.

There is also an actual archive of pages generated from the RSS file.

Sometimes I write longer texts about the local.html web app:

• local.html: Social Discovery by Browser-Based Crawling
• Gatekeeping is a structural bug

Privacy

This website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. IP addresses and HTTP request metadata may be processed by the infrastructure provider as part of serving the website.

This website does not handle personal data beyond what is processed by infrastructure providers.

This website hosts a demo of the local.html reader app.

The app runs entirely in the browser. It processes data locally and does not transmit user data except when making requests to external sites.

There is a distinction between publishing and reading:

• Publishing content happens outside the app and has the same privacy characteristics as a regular website. If the user chooses to use an integration (e.g. WebDAV), publishing is subject to the privacy characteristics of that provider.
• Reading content causes the browser to fetch resources from third-party sites, which may observe IP address, User-Agent header and browsing behavior. Those sites may process personal data independently of this website.

All content and relationships are based on publicly accessible URLs. As a result, relationships and activity may be inferred by others with access to the same URLs.

Users may choose to publish or link to personal information. The system cannot prevent such disclosure.

If a CORS proxy is configured, that proxy has full visibility into all fetched content and requests made through that proxy.