Graffiti: Enabling an Ecosystem of Personalized and Interoperable Social Applications
summary
Graffiti provides a client-side TypeScript API and a Vue.js plugin that reduces building a social app from full‑stack work to a few lines of front-end code, with two demonstrated decentralized back ends. It represents every post, like, reply, moderation action, or edit as objects (total reification) and uses a hashtag-style discovery model and explicit channels to avoid context collapse. The authors build Twitter-, Messenger-, and Wikipedia-like apps as proofs of concept and show cross‑app replies and feeds actually interoperate.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Graffiti
- 1:52Personalizing social apps
- 2:54Graffiti vs protocols
- 4:38Designing expressive API
- 5:42Folksonomy concept
- 6:44Total reification explained
- 8:06Object discovery with channels
- 9:28Summary and future work
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