Starting a project

Ok so to get things started on the learning and experimentation side I've decided that I would start a new project and learn from there, I always thought that the best way to learn a new language was doing something cool with it.

Since the theme of social networks has been very hot lately I decided that I would design and build one using Rust and a few other techs that I like/want to experiment with.

I'll be posting the PRs and commenting on them here so you can keep track of how things are going, it will also serve as sort of an informal additional documentation source.

I decided to call the project orka in homage to the late great Orkut (the social network not the engineer) and that I would follow a semi-federated structure similar to what Mastodon does but with a main node that users have to go through so that we can have a unified mechanism for moderating posts and communities.

I also decided that there will be no timeline on it (at least in the first stages of the project) and that all posts will go through communities that will be hosted on federated nodes.

The PR that I'm going to share today has this basic design explained and it is available for a quick read in the project's README if you're interested

Here is the PR link btw https://github.com/lucas-mv/orka/pull/1

Not much in the way of Rust yet, I've just set up a test web API using Rocket, hope to have some more progress soon but I did want to get the design up before moving on with the actual code stuff.

That is it for today! Have a nice week everyone!

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