Our Meta
The people who make it yours.
Our Meta is the people layer of your own platform. It is a directory of everyone on your install, a profile page for each of them, and follow and unfollow between them — the identity the other apps sign their posts with, so a post belongs to a person rather than to whoever typed it.
Before this app, every social app was owner-only: one author, and the client chose the name. Our Meta adds the author the content model was missing. A post is now signed by the person who wrote it, and the people who can read it are the ones who follow them. What it is not is a global account: it is an identity on this installation, because the product is single-tenant — your people are the people on your server, which is the whole idea.
Step by step
How to build your directory and follow people
The real steps in your own install: a directory, a profile for each person, and follow and unfollow.
- STEP 01
Open Our Meta
From your workspace, open Our Meta. It is the people directory that is already part of your install.
- STEP 02
See who is on your install
The directory lists everyone, with their handle and their picture, so you can find the people you want to follow.
- STEP 03
Open a person's profile
Each person has a profile page on your domain showing who they are and what they have posted.
- STEP 04
Follow the people you want
Follow someone and their posts reach your feed; unfollow them and they stop. You choose whose posts you see.
- STEP 05
Let your posts carry your name
Because the directory is the author, what you post is signed by you, and it reaches the people who follow you.
What it does
Everything a movie needs, without a camera
A directory of everyone
Every person on your install in one place, with their handle and their picture, so you can find anyone rather than remembering an address.
A profile for each person
Each person gets a page on your domain showing who they are and what they have posted — the address they share instead of a profile on someone else's site.
Follow and unfollow
You choose whose posts reach your feed. Following is a real relationship you can end, not an invisible setting buried in a menu.
Posts signed by their author
Because there is now a person behind each post, a post is signed by the person who wrote it rather than by a name the client chose — the difference between a feed and a wall of anonymous text.
The identity the other apps use
Your wall, your photos and your videos all draw their people from this one directory, so you have one set of people rather than one per app.
An identity on your server
Your people are the people on your own installation, not accounts on a global service. That is what makes the audience yours.
Questions
Questions people ask
Straight answers, and where something is not built yet it says so.
What is Our Meta?
Is this a global account, like a single sign-on?
Why does the platform need a people app at all?
Can I stop following someone?
Do the other apps share these people?
Our Meta is ready on your install
It is part of Social Jinni and it runs on your own server — nothing to register, nothing to approve.