I’ve decided to keep the first version simple in an effort to get it live ASAP.

I’ve decided to develop a cloud solution on the domain socialcare.cloud. I’m writing it in PHP using the Laravel framework.

I should be able to get the base features done within a couple of weeks. I’ve already begun development.

Once the service is running I’ll be pursuing self-hosted options. Perhaps, in the original tech stack of Rust/Svlete/Postgres. Distributed software takes a lot more time than self-hosted and I’d like to get live asap.

I’ll opensource what I can. For example, there isn’t a Lemmy client SDK available for PHP. I created my own and it will be opensource with an MIT license.

I’ll report progress as it’s made. I hope everyone agrees to my decision to keep it lean and targeted.