Why I'm building a gifting community on a network you actually own, and what that has to do with a couch, a geohash, and the open web.
gifthood.community — coming soon
A neighborly way to give and receive, freely, built on the AT Protocol.
Gravita — The force that brings communities together
Build your community's home on the open social web.
Custom Feeds Are Not Communities — A Design Theory of Feeds and Commons - Nightflight
From Attention to Intention - The Open Garden
Exploring business models for atproto and the open social web
marque.gives · free domains, forever, for the good ones
marque.gives is a fund that sponsors non-profits, open-source projects, and more with a domain of their own. Free, forever. Join the waitlist.
Northsky
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
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.
Monomarks: link-sharing for internet archaelogists
link-sharing for internet archaelogists
Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You
Featured image: Emergence by Paul Lewin
Octothorpes: Jailbreaking hashtags to connect websites together
My friend Nik and I share a lot of interests, and we like to write about them on our own websites. We’d hang out and talk about printmaking or building websites or the complexity of planning creative work, only to discover later that one or both of us had
Piloting paid memberships for the open social web! - Leaflet Lab Notes
Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!
The promise of ATproto is social media without corporate overlords
Community by Design
Social media empower distributed content creation by algorithmically harnessing "the social fabric" (explicit and implicit signals of association) to serve this content. While this overcomes the bottlenecks and biases of traditional gatekeepers, many believe it has unsustainably eroded the very social fabric it depends on by maximizing engagement for advertising revenue. This paper participates in open and ongoing considerations to translate social and political values and conventions, specifically social cohesion, into platform design. We propose an alternative platform model that includes the social fabric an explicit output as well as input. Citizens are members of communities defined by explicit affiliation or clusters of shared attitudes. Both have internal divisions, as citizens are members of intersecting communities, which are themselves internally diverse. Each is understood to value content that bridge (viz. achieve consensus across) and balance (viz. represent fairly) this internal diversity, consistent with the principles of the Hutchins Commission (1947). Content is labeled with social provenance, indicating for which community or citizen it is bridging or balancing. Subscription payments allow citizens and communities to increase the algorithmic weight on the content they value in the content serving algorithm. Advertisers may, with consent of citizen or community counterparties, target them in exchange for payment or increase in that party's algorithmic weight. Underserved and emerging communities and citizens are optimally subsidized/supported to develop into paying participants. Content creators and communities that curate content are rewarded for their contributions with algorithmic weight and/or revenue. We discuss applications to productivity (e.g. LinkedIn), political (e.g. X), and cultural (e.g. TikTok) platforms.
Can AT Protocol Fix Monolithic Platforms?
third-party apis: community infrastructure on atproto - Keith's Thoughts
you can just build things from an open set of tools