playhtml get-together
Why does the internet feel lonely when we increasingly spend much of our time on it? I think it's because most of the internet is a solitary experience, by design: personal algorithmic feeds, content-focused websites, no indicator of who else is here with us right now.
Where can we sit together on the internet? Where do we go for a stroll? Where do we find the digital equivalent of the remote hot spring up in the mountains, or that hidden hike to the waterfall? How do we discover a new neighborhood, shelter under a bodega awning during a summer shower, sit quietly at a cafe and work among the chatter of strangers?
Let's get together and make some new internet third spaces using playhtml!
Some web coding experience is preferred, but even if you have none, we'll be integrating AI into our creation process so that everyone can come out with something working!
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playhtml is an open-source library for designing communal web experiences by enhancing web elements with real-time, collaborative interactivity.
playhtml is designed as infrastructure for designing communal internet experiences that make the web feel alive. Beyond individual experiences, and even the collaborative ones we are familiar with (shared cursors, canvases, etc.), there's so many more shapes for us to interact with each other online. I hope this makes it possible for anyone to create their own expressive social media "app" but via the open web rather than a closed platform.
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