Accessibility where it's needed the most: Discord Voice Chats. Social notifications to stay connected and up to date with anyone, anywhere. Simple, customizable, free, and built in public.
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
proto instant messenger
AIM-inspired group chat on the AT Protocol. Real-time chat rooms, presence, away messages — a safe space for community.
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.
Fluxer: A chat app that puts you first
Fluxer is an open-source, independent instant messaging and VoIP platform. Built for friends, groups, and communities.
proto IM | AIM-inspired video chat for the open web
Free video calls and buddy lists built on the AT Protocol. Like FaceTime, but it works on every device. Works with Blacksky, Bluesky, or any atproto account.
WinGPT
Do you use Windows 3.1? Do your friends send you jokes and haikus written by ChatGPT, and make you feel left out? Do you wish you had the sum of all human knowledge at your fingertips? Or wish you had your very own AI chatbot on your trusty 386?
Cuelume. Interaction sounds for the web
Cuelume is a tiny, dependency-free library of carefully designed interaction sounds, synthesized live with Web Audio.
DWeb Virtual Meetup — Jan 2025 — Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem
DWeb Virtual Meetup (January 2026) featuring speakers sharing their latest DWeb product releases and community organizing efforts. SPEAKERSmauve signweaver, Awana Digital: Awana Digital supports those working to defend their human and environmental rights, but who lack the tools to do so. Their local partners represent marginalized communities worldwide, including Indigenous Peoples and ethnic minorities. They train local partners to use basic digital tools to gather, share, and manage information about environmental and human rights infractions. mauve presented CoMapeo Abare, an open-source local-first Android app designed with Indigenous communities, to enable non-technical users to easily map and document biodiversity, environmental threats, and human rights abuses.Blaine Cook, New_ Public: New_ Public is a nonprofit focused on building digital public spaces that foster connection, facilitate pluralism, and encourage civic engagement. Blaine presented Roundabout, their new social app and website to improve information sharing in rural and suburban towns, and city neighborhoods — areas with about 10,000-50,000 people.Afri Schoedon, Department of Decentralization (DoD): The Department of Decentralization is a collective of people from Berlin, who first assembled in 2018 to organize ETHBerlin hackathon. They aim to be an agnostic vehicle to drive adoption, educate newcomers, and raise awareness of the challenges and benefits of decentralization and open-source software. Afri shared their experience of previous DoD events and share the technologies and approaches that their collective sees as being on the horizon of network decentralization.Facilitated by DWeb Senior Organizer, mai ishikawa sutton
Chatto Dev Instance
The development instance of Chatto, the lean, self-hostable chat app. Come try the latest builds and hang with the team.
Exit Chat Control · Become Ungovernable
A practical field guide to escape Chat Control and reclaim your digital privacy: encrypted messaging, email, VPN, DNS, passwords, Linux, GrapheneOS, self-hosting. Free, open source, no tracking.
FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like? - Connected Places
FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like? - Connected Places
AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps — Boris Mann — FediCon 2025
Boris Mann gave a talk at FediCon 2025: "Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps". Boris Mann posted some notes about his talk here: https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/beyo...
Scott Jenson — How the Desktop UX needs to evolve to keep up with Local-first
OpenMeet – Free, Open-Source Alternative to Meetup
The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
