A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums
Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.
Where Does Community Live?
ActivityPub and ATProto both promise to rebuild social life online, but they answer the question of where community actually forms in fundamentally different ways. Protocol design is institutional design, and right now those institutions are being built.
Newest Questions
Stack Overflow | The World’s Largest Online Community for Developers
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
Cosmik Network (cosmik.network) — Semble
Transforming social networks into sensemaking networks https://cosmik.network/ | Building @semble.so a social knowledge network for research | Co-organizing @atproto.science @cairos.network
Social media algorithms can be redesigned to bridge divides — here’s how
"It falls to both the tech companies that built these systems and an engaged public to create technologies designed for social cohesion."
The rise (and future fall) of Discord
I want to talk about Discord. Not about all the issues like privacy, accessibility, performance. No, the good things. The part where it completely revolutionized the internet. And how it will destroy it all.
Skydit — communities, on your own terms
Reddit-style communities on the AT Protocol. Your posts live in your own Bluesky account.
How Dependent Is Your Newsroom on Big Tech?
A web-based survey tool that evaluates journalism organizations' dependency on Big Tech platforms and services.
New_ Public | After the Feed
What happens after the social media feed? A presentation on the future of conversation, community, and social connection, and how AI will affect the everyday lives of billions.
The Internet Transition
The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.
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.
1/ quick notes from a great meeting yesterday with a Boston area researcher, interested in cutting edge research tools like Discourse Graphs, @cosmik.network and science social media. The research questions they are looking at are too complex and interdisciplinary to be tackled by any single lab >
