Ann, the Small Annotation Server

Ann, the Small Annotation Server Ann is a minimal ActivityPub-based decentralised alternative social media built around Web Annotations. An annotation can be thought of as a comment, recommendation or a like on any piece of content. Ann allows you to store your annotations, send annotations to your followers and receive annotations from people that you follow. Ann is different from other social medias and federated social medias. It is not really meant to have a single webpage you go to where you see all your "Ann related content" (though you could build that). Instead, it is just a server, so on it's own it's not very usable. What does get cool is when you connect it to front-end applications, so for example some applications could be: A comment section in a Gemini browser or for your blog. A research department could have a private setup where they comment and share papers. Get article recommendations from people you follow. A web browser plugin that allows you to view other pe ... Read full article.