Openbook is Anonymous' answer to Facebook.
What is it?
Openbook allows us to collectively organize information in a more meaningful way than we could on a more mainstream social media platforms.
- On Openbook, we use hashtags wisely and sparingly, because every hashtag has it's own ~wiki page defining what it really means and how to use it.
- There are no individual usernames or identities on Openbook, so it attracts people who care more about the message than the messenger.
People who care more about truth than likes and shares. - There are fewer people on it, so it's less crowded, and less polluted with misinformation.
This means we're helping build a collective base of knowledge, and culture, where it is easy to find what you're looking for, and easy to inspire and encourage each other to take constructive actions to make the world a better place.
Openbook is hosted here on tilde.camp at: http://tilde.camp/openbook
Opensource Software
Openbook is technically not the website itself, but the software that it's running on, because the original idea was there was supposed to be a lot of copies of Openbook floating around the Internet. But for now I think this might still be the only #p0rtal.
The sourcecode can be found here: https://github.com/openboo/Openbook2
Original Concept
On Openbook, everyone can be an "open book" because they can speak anonymously.
Openbook is listed on the camp map as the "stage" because it is a place where anyone can easily put on a show, announce an operation, or just share their piece, in a public place for everyone else in camp to see. And since there's only a single thread, you can be sure everyone will see it.
Openbook does not use any complex algorithms to reorganize the newsfeed, unlike most social media platforms. Every post appears at the very top of the newsfeed as soon as it is posted, and anyone can bump any post back up to the top of the newsfeed by clicking "share" - that will bump the post back up into the collective short-term memory of the camp.
Since Openbook does not have usernames or accounts, the social constructs of the ego are practically absent from Openbook, and the posts are meant to inform and entertain each other without seeking fame or fortune for the person who posted it. This aligns the values of Openbook and tilde.camp with the values exalted by the Hacker's Manifesto.