Key feautres, reasoning.

Competences and Aspirations

We want to start with simple matching based on "competences" and "aspirations". Both are simple lists of keywords that a person maintains.

If you have the competence "Graphic Design" and aspiration "Rust language", and someone else has competence "Rust language" aspiration "UI Design", there's a good match right there!

We're trying to find a model that might work, without waving the magic "algorithms" or "AI" wand around. And we think competences + aspirations is that.

Direct messages, chat etc:

The way we envision it, is to leave "to talk to" to other networks. we believe there most often already are established channels "to communicate", or otherwise can easily use such channels.

In any case: to not introduce yet another "stream" or "inbox".

Instead we want people to link to their channels: mastodon accounts, blog, email, facebook (...), telegram group etc.