Assumptions

As an author, posts I create can link to images.

this can be achieved by posting the image link in markdown

As an author, posts I create can be private to another author

this post will go to the receiving authors inbox, and is sent by specific author id

As an author, posts I create can be private to my friends

this post will go to the receiving authors inbox, and is sent to all friend via a drop down

As an author, I can re-share other author’s friend posts to my friends

this post will go to the receiving authors inbox

As an author, I want to delete my own public posts. As an author, I want to befriend local authors As an author, I want to befriend remote authors As an author, I want to feel safe about sharing images and posts with my friends – images shared to friends should only be visible to friends. [public images are public] As an author, when someone sends me a friends only-post I want to see the likes. As an author, comments on friend posts are private only to me the original author. As an author, I want un-befriend local and remote authors As an author, I want to be able to use my web-browser to manage my profile As an author, I want to be able to use my web-browser to manage/author my posts As a server admin, I want to be able add, modify, and remove authors. As a server admin, I want to OPTIONALLY be able allow users to sign up but require my OK to finally be on my server As a server admin, I don’t want to do heavy setup to get the posts of my author’s friends. As a server admin, I want a restful interface for most operations As an author, other authors cannot modify my public post As an author, other authors cannot modify my shared to friends post. As an author, I want to comment on posts that I can access As an author, I want to like posts that I can access As an author, my server will know about my friends As an author, When I befriend someone it follows them, only when the other authors befriends me do I count as a real friend. As an author, I want to know if I have friend requests. As an author I should be able to browse the public posts of everyone As a server admin, I want to be able to add nodes to share with As a server admin, I want to be able to remove nodes and stop sharing with them. As a server admin, I can limit nodes connecting to me via authentication. As a server admin, node to node connections can be authenticated with HTTP Basic Auth As a server admin, I can disable the node to node interfaces for connections that are not authenticated! As an author, I want to be able to make posts that are unlisted, that are publicly shareable by URI alone (or for embedding images)