Fediverse search engine Holos Discover shut down this week, showing structural issues how to distinguish between individual and community consent.
Lab Notes #006: Open Collections and Community Stewardship - Cosmik Labs
Details on our first step towards supporting community stewardship and collaborative curation
Lab Notes #006: Open Collections and Community Stewardship - Cosmik Labs
Details on our first step towards supporting community stewardship and collaborative curation
Make and browse Freedom of Information (FOI) requests
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The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need
Home | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
A toolkit for open source researchers
W Social's Beta Is Live. The Problems Didn't Wait. - Ewan’s Blog
I am definitely not touching W.
W Social: a Broken Ghost Town?
W Social has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.
COMPOST Special Issue: Stop Surveillance Copaganda
Anti-surveillance stories, reactions, analysis, and incitement built by privacy activists and human rights experts, in collaboration with Strange Horizons as well as the DWeb Camp, DragonCon, and RightsCon communities. The toolkit is now available globally and for free to all creators who want to write more dynamic stories that challenge fascist repression via surveillance tech.
AT-Communities #1: the Concierge, the Vault, and the Fuck-ass Astro Website – Essential Randomness
In which I try to make sense of communities on ATproto.
OWID Homepage
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
greensky: what does permissioned data feel like? - building [at] habitat
At @habitat.network, we're working hard to launch something at ATmosphereConf. We're building a platform for user data agency: giving users full and transpar…
Project 2025 Tracker
A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
On the coordination for better moderation systems
There is a need for better moderation systems on the fediverse. But getting people to coordinate to build and adopt such systems is proving to be a challenge.
Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?
You might’ve noticed Framework, the laptop manufacturer, embroiled in a controversy as of now. The Discord server is on lockdown because the volunteer moderation team has gone on hiatus, and the Framework forum post about the controversy has been gaining unsightly amounts of steam from people disappointed at actions taken by Framework.
In 2026, @bsky.app is focused on what’s next for open social: bringing together users for conversations around live events, creator and platform monetization, and private state, giving users truly private data while preserving ownership and portability at the protocol level.
