I'm thinking about how people will host their own Drummers. #
I don't want to run the only server, I might not even want to run the main server. I do want to continue developing the software. This is different from how Facebook and Twitter run, I'm not trying to create another walled garden. It's not the kind of work I like, or am particularly good at. It's much more like how WordPress works. Only I think Drummer can be even easier to set up and manage. #
I want to create networks of outliner users. I call this "Communication with a big C." Not the wires, but the ideas that go over the wires. Nodes in my network are human minds, not computers. #
The world I imagine is something like 1980s software model with a much more efficient distribution system. And the product, unlike the one from the 80s, is built around networking, where the networking features of MORE and ThinkTank were barely a twinkle in the eye. There was no software to back it up #
One of the reasons I wanted Symantec to buy Think Technologies: they had one of the leading Mac email packages at the time, a product called InBox. There were two others, and I was friends with them too. I wanted desperately to get real networking support into MORE. Never happened, unfortunately, that had to wait for Frontier. #
I'm starting to put the pieces together. One of them is to get the hosting working on systems like AWS, Digital Ocean and Glitch. So a user can just launch a server from a repo, have it mostly configure itself, have a Drummer server running in minutes. That's the goal. We have some experience with this, the various For Poets projects we've done here. #
I've started a thread if you have questions or suggestions. #
PS: For programmers, the key piece of software has a funny name. daveappserver. It's an application server, perfectly set up to host Drummer, because in fact it is what I use to host Drummer. 😄#
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