I want organizers to be as excited as I am about the phase shift happening on the web right now. If we nerds can help the organizers see what we're seeing, which is the potential for a systemic overhaul of the web as we know it, the organizers will understand what they can ask us to build for them.
On-protocol Organizing
blog.muni.townMar 25, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Growing the Social Web
I'm going to be participating in the Growing the Open Social Web workshop at Fediforum on March 2, 2026. I'm excited to talk to other people who care about the Fediverse about ways to connect more people through ActivityPub. Fediforum invited attendees to publish position papers before the workshop. SWF has a number of hypotheses…
Community Tech Speakers
Dietrich was kind enough to describe the Mozilla Tech Speakers program he created and ran, where the people around the world already promoting Mozilla/ Firefox / etc got support to give talks. Calling it Ecosystem Activity Uplift Program here: This would need funding to run such a thing, although we could maybe prototype parts of it with the Community Fund. As input, one of the things we need is lists of events next year. I think I’ll start by making a wiki page here to get things started s...
Denizen / Change from within
Meet our community, attend our events and get our latest ideas delivered
Reckoning: Frontend's Lost Decade | Alex Russell | performance.now() 2024
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
Web Platform: What are we working on?
Web Platform What are we working on? Simone Onofri WebEngineHackFest 2025
Automerge 3.0 Beta, Sketchy Calendar, and a lab website refresh
Some major updates to our open-source Automerge library, an introduction to Sketchy Calendars, and a peek at our work on collaborative game development. Also some meta content—a refreshed website, and a talk about how we work.
I want organizers to be as excited as I am about the phase shift happening on the web right now. If we nerds can help the organizers see what we're seeing, which is the potential for a systemic overhaul of the web as we know it, the organizers will understand what they can ask us to build for them.
On-protocol Organizing
blog.muni.townExcited to announce that I will be giving the opening keynote for @newpublic.org + @publicspaces.net Open Social Award Show in Amsterdam next month! My keynote will discuss how we do community governance at @blackskyweb.xyz Best of luck to all applicants and hope to see you there!
Designing Technology for All #11: Open Socials Award Show
dezwijger.nlThanks NLNet Fdn for organizing a great workshop on web browsers! Rad group of participants, including @torproject.org @igalia.com @auxilit.com @aapoalas.trynova.dev @ma1.bsky.social Sounds like they'll do more in 2026, you can sign up to be notified here: nlnet.nl/workshops/#browsers
NLnet, @nlnet@nlnet.nl
social.nlnet.nlExcited to announce that I'm a speaker in MIT Media Lab's upcoming AHA Seminar Series! I'll be presenting on @blackskyweb.xyz's moderation and how we are navigating the nuances around automated content moderation that is community-governed
AHA Seminar Series: Rishi Balakrishnan | Who Moderates? Community Control of Automated Content Moderation – MIT Media Lab
media.mit.edu🌌 We’re excited to show you another great addition to the "growing constellation of interconnected apps" on the open web: Bonfire🔥 Bonfire helps build spaces for communities, outside of the Big Tech social platforms, that are shaped by the people who will use them, for exactly what they want.
On March 29th, we held an in-person meeting to check in with the community and discuss potential updates to the standard.site spec. A huge thank you to @cozylittle.house for putting together a detailed summary of everything we discussed. leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:kydzcmnywraao2srchq…
Standard Site Working Group Meeting Notes 3/29/26
leaflet.pubi couldn’t be more excited Inlay is finally out and open source! i’ve been working on this nonstop for the past few months. it’s a bit in the “mad science” territory but i hope it inspires you too to think about malleable and remixable social user interfaces
Inlay
today was the Inlay release day! discover, remix, create, and compose different ways to view the Atmosphere data on inlay.at
