I wrote an article this week about where community actually gets built on open social protocols, taking a closer look at what community shapes have actually…
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.
The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need
Skydit — communities, on your own terms
Reddit-style communities on the AT Protocol. Your posts live in your own Bluesky account.
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'.
Community Spaces on AT Protocol - at:// pizza thoughts
Scaled-down design patterns
Why Online Democracies Fail - Eclectic Corvine Muses
A compendium to my upcoming proposal for community infrastructure within the AT Protocol
npmx: converging communities
The story of the many people and communities that converged to build npmx together
Communities of Not
On the strange hostility that grows in communities built around abstinence.
Streets are made for talking: so that's what we did - Bridges For Communities
We’ve been trying something new at Bridges. Popping up on high streets and town centres in Bristol to talk to people about community life and the issues that are impacting […]
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.
From ZK-first to AT Protocol — our path to DDS | Agora Citizen Network
We've been building Agora — a platform for public deliberation using Polis-style clustering — for a while now. Along the way, we've written about what we think about Nostr, AT Protocol, Polis, Community Notes, and protocol interoperability. Those posts are somewhat outdated now. This one describes w...
The European Social Stack · An open declaration
An open declaration: The European Social Stack. Open Social Platforms and Private Messaging.
The Purpose of Protocols
Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?
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.
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 >
