Acorn

As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control | TechCrunch

Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.

Holding Platforms Accountable Is Not Enough. We Need A ‘Compass’ For Social Technologies

This is the first series in the 21-22 Perspectives on Public Purpose blog.

Blacksky As a Service: a First Look at Acorn - AT Protocol

Rishi Balakrishnan joins to talk about the work that went into building Acorn, Blacksky's new platform for creating moderated communities on atproto — and why the landing page never mentions a PDS.

If I ran Mastodon

A community platform for a vibrant, diverse social web.

Composable Trust, Part 1: Communities Without Credible Exit - Eclectic Corvine Muses

We guarantee that users aren’t subject to platforms. Yet communities are still subject to their stewards. Can we fix this?

Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You

Featured image: Emergence by Paul Lewin

Delete Your Account: On the Theory of Platform Capitalism | Los Angeles Review of Books

The platform confuses capital-flow and social form, rearranging the relationship of profit to community and intelligence to organization.

Social Platform Directory

We are mapping all the social platforms in Europe. This directory is growing every day based on input from people all around Europe. It is a collective piece of work. The platforms mapped are here because someone told us about their existence or directed us to a list, where they were mentioned. All are mapped as precisely as possible based on publicly available information. Is there a platform we should know about, or some information that should be adjusted? Let us know.

Community OS stack — Open Indie

The Great Untangling: Part 1 – Shaping the foundations. To sufficiently express my identity as a netizen I require: global group messag...

We Needn't Have a One True Platform - Aaron Ross Powell

On Bluesky, user numbers, and the silliness of endless growth.

To people that donate to OSS, what platform do you prefer to use to donate?

40 votes, 27 comments. I am asking since I've only setup GitHub Sponsors for my project, but I feel like some people might not want to use that and I…