Thanks to @dholms.at for his awesome blog on locality. I keep thinking about things on the edges, and in particular what happens when we throw real monetary incentives into spaces.
The Edge of Space(s)
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Digital Locality
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Digital Locality | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Local Communities | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Creating a Flourishing Digital Public Space for Your Local Area | Notion
A how-to guide for admins and moderators of inclusive, uplifting, and public-spirited local Facebook groups, Discord servers, subreddits, and more...
Neighborhood Steward Fellowship | New_ Public
An eight-week program bringing together leaders of local-oriented online spaces to experiment with fun new practices and ideas
Federating friendly spaces - Roomy
hearkening back to the cozy vibes of old-web neighborhoods
Where Does Community Live? - some responses - Connected Places
I agree that the architecture of a space matters, but I'm not sure the extent we agree as to how much a protocol really matters, versus what we build with them. Roundabout is built on atproto, and I'm quite happy with the decision. I think our architecture very strongly supports our communities.
Climate, Energy, & the Future–How Infrastructure Works–Deb Chachra–The Future is Literally Bright
The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need
🧭🏘️📲 Exploring a new social product for local communities
We’re seeking local partners for collaboration as we pilot new concepts and designs
Adam Fish - Why Local First matters to businesses
This is probably one of the most important issues in terms of labor, tech, UX, etc that the Atmosphere needs to solve (decentralized moderation). I would invite people to pay attention to what the @blackskyweb.xyz team and its community are doing and take notes.
we have an idea for communities in the app that we're calling "spaces" — places where people can gather around shared interests or social groups. here's a peek at some early prototypes. these are explorations, not polished or final. looking for feedback, esp from community builders 👀
alex benzer
the bsky team is working on various ideas for creating smaller social spaces in the app. which use case is most interesting to you? 1. posting into "topics" that organize public posts 2. posting into "communities" or "groups" that can be public or private 3. posting directly to your followers only
Overlapping context-specific communities, on a whole spectrum of public commons to cozy private spaces, all interoperable in a global network — yeahhhh we've got a big opportunity here!
Everyone Fled the Feed for the Group Chat.
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