An experiment to connect people and initiatives, to coordinate efforts in the collective task of finding alternatives to our current relationship with digital information.
TrailHub is an Open, Interoperable, Ubiquitous Kernel for developing Web Native Capabilities that work offline, self archive, and allow people to be their own Hubs in their own networks on their own terms to be incorporated as "Plug-outs" in any Web App.
The way that the internet is currently built, individuals are like satellites hovering around big, powerful companies, who control every aspect of our online experience.
We don’t just need “decentralization,” but an internet architecture that promotes a renaissance of creativity, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
Decentralized technologies currently compete with each other, not complete one another. Decentralized architecture is not enough...to effect change that matters, we must also have boundless interoperability.
Improving our ability to improve
TrailHubs believes that by building a “human-centric architecture,” we can completely change the way that humans and technology interact in a way that makes us smarter and lets us build better sensemaking capacity tools, further extending our cognition in an upward spiral of problem-solving capacity.
What is “human-centric architecture”?
When you become your own internet hub, you gain control of your internet existence. Instead of your pictures, music, documents, and conversations being scattered over the internet, everything stays with you, giving you the power to organize your digital life in the way that it makes sense to you, in way that is impossible today.
As you travel the internet, you can pick up little pieces of information and put them in your basket, or “slip box.” You have total control over how you organize your information, and over time, as you intake and internally associate these information bits, you build up your own powerful neural networks and become smarter and better organized, like you can with Roam, Notion, and Evernote. The problem is, these companies own and control all the users’ data.
“Human-centric architecture” goes far beyond decentralization and towards full interoperability. For the individual user, this is not an upgrade, but a major game changer. Instead of making us feel stupid and incompetent, technology would make us feel smarter and more powerful, and give us entirely new abilities to collaborate that we currently lack.
What the wiki did for Web 2.0
Wikipedia was a baby step towards a new form of human collaboration. It gave us the ability to write collaboratively and have millions of independent people built a complex structure together. However, the wiki was based on central control, one way links, and a single source of truth, limiting its power.
"Problems": Lock-in, Poor privacy, No interoperability, Cognitive overload, Digital sharecropping
Why this project is so important
If we want to survive as a species, we need to be able to accurately assess threats and make good decisions together. Our current internet, which is like the nervous system of the collective human body, actively prevents us from doing that with its poisonous business model that encourages competition and misinformation and censorship.
HyperBlog, a Medium human-centric clone via TrailHub.
This decentralized blogging architecture is not meant to show all the bells and whistles of interoperability; it is the most minimal viable capability of human-centric architecture we could build.
The strategy with HyperBlog as the minimal viable capability of human-centric architecture does not seem to me sufficiently argued, and a priori I do not share it.
Project by TrailMarks.
TrailHub is an Open, Interoperable, Ubiquitous Kernel for developing Web Native Capabilities that work offline, self archive, and allow people to be their own Hubs in their own networks on their own terms to be incorporated as "Plug-outs" in any Web App.
TrailHub presentation's highlights
Improving our ability to improve
What is “human-centric architecture”?
What the wiki did for Web 2.0
"Problems": Lock-in, Poor privacy, No interoperability, Cognitive overload, Digital sharecropping
Why this project is so important
HyperBlog, a Medium human-centric clone via TrailHub.
First impression:
→ Via Bernard Chabot.
→ This conversation is referenced in this repo by @danielarmengolaltayo