







We guarantee that users aren’t subject to platforms. Yet communities are still subject to their stewards. Can we fix this?
Composable Trust, Part 3: 1 Community, 3 Sovereigns, No Landlords - Eclectic Corvine Muses
An architectural model to yield members, Rosters, and Venues sovereignty over their own domains, and none over each other’s.
Composable Trust, Part 3: 1 Community, 3 Sovereigns, No Landlords - Eclectic Corvine Muses
An architectural model to yield members, Rosters, and Venues sovereignty over their own domains, and none over each other’s.
Composable Trust, Part 2: Separating Trust from Governance - Eclectic Corvine Muses
”Who belongs” and “What belonging means” are different questions. What happens if one steward stops answering both?
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.

Trust and Faith in Our Web
I’m not Brennan, but I’m very interested in decentralization and a fan of AtProto specifically, so I’d like to weigh in. First I should mention I’ve personally never been able to get into microblogging, so I haven’t touched bluesky myself, despite having an account for ATProto reasons. But I agree it’s concerning that the company chooses to continue to host the content of harmful individuals and calling that act “neutral”. I’m certainly against the idea of the “marketplace of ideas” as it’s cle...

New Paradigms in Trust and Safety: Navigating Defederation on Decentralized Social Media Platforms
Defederation on decentralized social media offers new possibilities for online governance. Experts consider how it can be used responsibly, in a way that balances speech and safety.
On Trust Infrastructure Trust underpins civilisation. It expands the scope and complexity of the pursuits within our collective reach by allowing us to act as a…
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"Trust community, not wealth" Holding power accountable on the open social web.

Symposium: A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries
In recent years, the concept of “information fiduciaries” has surged to the forefront of debates on platform regulation. In a forthcoming essay, we question the wisdom of applying a fiduciary framework to dominant digital platforms.

Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
Weave
Weave is accelerating the interoperability of the internet's missing trust layer. True community portability. Trust that travels.
Weave
Weave is accelerating the interoperability of the internet's missing trust layer. True community portability. Trust that travels.
mitchellh/vouch
A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate.
Directing the Herd
Social media platforms don’t produce a common public; they produce competing sub-publics, each with its own sense of what everyone knows.

Trust: Foundation of Human Knowledge yet online Platforms won't allow | David Karger | TEDxMIT Salon