Neil Chudleigh launches GET Together with the wrong HTTP method

GET Together is a public feed built around a method defined as safe and read-only: the former PartnerStack CTO adds ownership, privacy and moderation controls to the experiment.

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Why it matters

GET Together turns a protocol joke into a compact lesson: even a social feed with a handful of endpoints immediately needs ownership, retries, privacy rules, abuse controls and moderation.

A luminous digital stream of abstract content fragments flows freely from a central glowing node, representing a public, account-free information feed.

Neil Chudleigh (@neilsuperduper) launched GET Together, a public social network where publishing a message requires an HTTP GET request, on September 7th. The original Hacker News launch submission describes the same premise: users do not need POST to post. GET is normally used to retrieve data; GET Together uses it to write posts, add hearts, delete messages and build reply threads.…

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