haven

Hi everyone, This project started as a way for me to share pictures of my then-newborn kid with close friends and family. I've always been privacy conscious and didn't really want to use Facebook or Instagram. The more I've worked on it, the more it feels like it could be a healthier way for people to interact on the internet--avoiding the polarizing, engagement-optimized algorithms that generate modern news feeds. I shared this project a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013715 Since then (in addition to a lot of small things) I added a built-in feed reader. Haven already published private RSS feeds, now you can subscribe to those feeds along with any other RSS/Atom feed right in Haven. I'd love any feedback, thanks for taking a look!

(open source) Self-hostable, private social media alternative (like Facebook circa 2012). Functionally it is a private blog that speaks RSS with a built-in RSS aggregator. Self-hosting being the only way to actually have privacy in a social-media-type space. https://github.com/havenweb/haven

I've got to chime in here, because of how much this overlaps with the project I've been working on called Haven[1]. A lot of these problems go away with a decentralized/open-source private model. If your posts aren't public then there is no spam. If everyone runs their own node of open-source (or better yet: open-protocol, ie RSS) software, then there is no centralized entity able to have incentives of profiting off the platform. Information propagation speed is a good call-out as dangerous. Even with all the spam/shilling/trills removed, it still leads to the girl who's having a great time on her snowboarding trip until she posts pictures on Instagram and drops into a foul mood because not enough people immediately liked her posts. I'd love to connect and share thoughts, feel free to reach out[2]/ [1]: https://github.com/havenweb/have

Can I plug Haven: https://github.com/havenweb/haven here too? It is a solid RSS reader, while also letting you publish privately. The plan is for this to expand into a social reader[1] soon! [1]: https://indieweb.org/social_reader

You're welcome to adapt the AWS deployment scripts I setup for Haven[1]. I tend to adapt them when deploying other personal projects like the sites I've built for my family tree or privately hosting/sharing old family home movies. [1]: https://github.com/havenweb/haven/tree/master/deploymentscri...