hearkening back to the cozy vibes of old-web neighborhoods
Ambient Co-presence
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
Digital Spaces Directory | New_ Public
As the social media landscape changes and a new wave of digital spaces emerges, this Directory is meant to be a resource for our field — a jumping-off-point for further exploration and research for anyone who’s interested in studying, building, stewarding, or simply using digital social platforms. We hope this will inspire creative exploration, spark new collaborations, and highlight important progress.
The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need
Gradients of intimacy and creating shelter: An interview with Erin Kissane
How might we use nature as an inspiration for creating online communities?
Welcome to Muni Town
By now our community holds space for dozens of builders working on community tools in service of the Open Social Web. We call this expansive community space 'Muni Town'.
Habitat & permission spaces for organizations - building [at] habitat
Our plans for organizational permissions on spaces
Habitat's road to release: 01 simplespace - building [at] habitat
First up: a pre-implementation of permissioned spaces
Roomy & Designing for Communities | Fish | Offprint
My personal experiences working with the team at Roomy, and how I feel after the last 5 months helping with the project.
Where Does Community Live? - some responses - Connected Places
I agree that the architecture of a space matters, but I'm not sure the extent we agree as to how much a protocol really matters, versus what we build with them. Roundabout is built on atproto, and I'm quite happy with the decision. I think our architecture very strongly supports our communities.
Habitat's road to release: 03 ReBAC on spaces - building [at] habitat
Fine-grained permissioning on top of spaces.
toward a new aesthetic
Lately I’ve been thinking about what being online looks like. The actual look of it. The aesthetic. As I continue to think and write and talk about escaping...
Addressable Space Web - Summer of Protocols
Addressable Space Chenoe Hart 1. Hidden Floors You may not notice in everyday life when a building you walk into is constructed of words and numbers in addition to bricks and mortar. Consider the composition of One Burrard Place, a condominium in Vancouver. It was described as
Screen As Room: An Architectural Perspective on User Interfaces — Christoph Locher · Interaction Designer
With the use of video games as social spaces being observed for several years and the increased focus put on virtual social spaces due to the scarceness of physical social spaces in the last months, the concept of “spatial interfaces” is once again at the center of discussions. I want to add an alternative perspective to this, looking at the properties of physical spaces as metaphors, rather than models, for interfaces and exploring seven of them in more detail.
Community Spaces on AT Protocol - at:// pizza thoughts
Scaled-down design patterns