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Announcing the Modal Foundation - Updates from the Modal Foundation

We're a nonprofit dedicated to supporting decentralized social technologies that help people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information.

Modal Foundation

Supporting decentralized social tech and open standards to create trustworthy, public-interest social media alternatives and ensure access to vital information.

2026 List of Identity and Related Conferences and Standards Development Events

Agenda and minutes of meetings of the Federated Identity Community Group - fedidcg/meetings

Tools — Solidarity Resource

Watch our launch event for more context on the development of the Guide and a module-by-module tour!

The Future Is Federated: My Fediverse Starter Guide

A starter guide for the Fediverse: what it is, how to join and its culture

Incubating Aster - Updates from the Modal Foundation

We at the Modal Foundation are excited to share the news of our support for Aster.id, a new home for researchers on the open web. Aster grows out of the ATsc…

Symbiota

We’re a collective of event-focused organisations devoted to new forms of culture and enquiry, structured as a not-for-profit worker co-operative

Modal Collective

We do development, design, organizing, policy campaigning, and more to make computing more useful, secure, and resilient. Our work is centered around software infrastructure projects such as GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, systemd, and the Linux kernel.

Announcing mu.social, and other news - Updates from the Modal Foundation

Major updates and announcements

Dialog (organization)

Dialog is a private, invitation-only society, sometimes compared to Bilderberg and the World Economic Forum.[2] Forbes describes it as "Bilderberg [...] meets Silicon Valley salon."[3] The organization was founded by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman.[2] It maintains a low public profile (without a website accessible to public or officially disclosed membership), and is described as a closed-door meeting that brings together executives, elected officials, and academics.[2][4] It also offers a matchmaking service that pairs single members with each other.[5][6]

XOXO - Erin Kissane's small internet website

This post annotates a talk I gave on August 24, 2024 at the final XOXO Festival in Portland, Oregon, about the gifts and terrors of the social internet and why fixing it is essential to our ability to respond to collective crisis and institutional failure.

FOSDEM 2026 - Local-First, sync engines, CRDTs

Room: K.3.201 Calendar: iCal, xCal Chat: Join the conversation!

eLife Pathways Joins CAIROS

eLife Pathways is joining the CAIROS network, a cooperative federation dedicated to building open and sustainable research commons.