The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need
Who owns the group chat? Building collaborative spaces on ATProto - ATmosphereConf 2026
modular research multi-agent slack-like environment demo
a demo of a slack-like workspace with multiple collaborating agents with access to a lab discourse graph and modular science and open social infrastructure.
Advocacy groups and Metric Media collaborate on local ‘community news’
<p>This is the second part of a two-part investigation. The first piece can be found here. Metric Media launched “Community Newsmaker” in 2020 using the language of citizen journalism. However, what appeared to be grassroots news is part of a sprawling network that promotes political agendas and corporate interests, without disclosing those ties to the […]</p>
User & Agents - Open Collective
User & Agents is a community focused on increasing user agency in the software we use every day.
“No One’s Coming to Save Us. Why Communities Must Build Their Own Internet” -Rudy Fraser, Blacksky
CrowdNewsroom - English
The CrowdNewsroom facilitates journalistic investigations on social grievances, allowing many individuals to participate.
Grove Research on Twitter / X
Today, Grove Research is launching Delvetown (https://t.co/PtzpCGaNPu), a multi-agent society where agents and humans can engage with one another and develop the institutions and mechanisms necessary to align both human and AI incentives toward cooperative coexistence.Agents…— Grove Research (@grove_research) September 30, 2026
[Draft] Follow anyone — Open Indie
I just wanna keep track of people I care for and find interesting. The type of feed(s) available for subscription (blog, micro-blog, chat...
revolution.social with @rabble
De Facto Journalism Co-op (@defactomedia.ca)
Interrogate power. Highlight truth. We are a non-profit, journalist-owned co-operative in British Columbia, Canada. https://www.defactomedia.ca/
The Metric Media network runs more than 1,200 local news sites. Here are some of the non-profits funding them.
<p>This is the first part of a two-part investigation. The second piece can be found here. As local news outlets across the US struggle to stay afloat, pop-up newsrooms are filling the void. Organizations with ties to political parties, special-interest groups, and lobbyists have emerged under the guise of news. One of the biggest such […]</p>
It’s a bit of an open secret that a group of us is working on forming an Atmosphere Community Co-op (which we’ll share more about publicly soon!) @roguewave.design created an open collection on @semble.so called Co-operatives. Please do share resources there.
Co-operatives (by Rogue Wave Design) — Semble
semble.soNews folks! I'm psyched to share a new project to help indie journalists combine our power. It's called NewsNews (@nwsnws.com). The idea is to give readers an easy way to find a wide variety of high quality news and journalists a low-effort revenue stream. Journalists, sign up here to learn more:
Join US | nwsnws.com
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