campfire 🫴🪵🔥

i'm starting to sketch out the rough direction for /campfire's text-only (to start) social protocol (a completely independent alternative to the Farcaster protocol, if successful).

buckle in...this is gonna be a long boiiiiiiiiiiii
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i'll start with my motivations and accompanying reasoning. 👇

soldier of Good. 🪖🥰 
producer × DJ. 🎧 🪩 
working on /campfire. 🫴🪵🔥
host of /downshift ⚙️ + /dww 🎧 +  /gtd 🛠️.
https://linktr.ee/0xdownshift

/campfire is intended to be a music-sharing app/platform, with the goal of "making music social again". you literally can't send a song to a friend on Spotify! wtf? there are no feeds, and the only social feature, besides real-time co-listening (very fkn cool, actually) and sharing playlists (also dope) (cont'd 👇)


but the app, as built, is super limited (see below).

we validated the concept with a small group (~couple dozen DJs+producers+music sickos, like myself) and now need to build an alpha that can support 100s (or more) users, and we need a Real Backend™ for that..

(the existing one just uses CloudKit [see below], which is p dope for what it is, but not the right fit whatsoever for what we're doing. it was just the literally fastest/easiest way to test the POC..)

so, we have some options for backend/hosting:

https://developer.apple.com/icloud/cloudkit/

..is this creepy ass what-are-my-friends listening to rn bullshit, and you have to turn if off every session which is stupid (and rude) af (plz let me cry to swifty alone at 3am in peace, ok?)

i built a proof of concept of the app for iOS back in 2023 (in SwiftUI...which i came to really, really love, fwiw)