The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh
Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.
Introducing Ringspace: A Proposal for the Human Web
For months, I've been working on a project to demonstrate how we can preserve humanity on the web. It's finally ready for testing.
Coby Cat's Abode
Hiya! Welcome to Coby Cat's humble abode. I'm currently sprucing up the place, so pardon the dust. Want to explore? The About page has the usual intro stuff, plus some personal essays and even some fun surprises. The Portfolio showcases my visual dabblings. The Articles section dives into all sorts of topics—sometimes deeply personal, sometimes just focused. And the Links page? It's my curated collection of neat links, online media, and personal sites.
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
In Which A Book Lexicon is Born
Hi everyone, We recently held a sync to discuss creating a shared book lexicon for the Atmosphere Protocol. I’ve shared the full recording (thanks Ronen!) and notes from the meeting here: Fathom with some early notes here: https://app.notion.com/p/Book-Lexicon-Session-1-211b2b43aabb8007b098d063972ca58c (also do we have a ATProto version of Notion yet?) The book logging social scene is highly fragmented. Dozens of Goodreads alternatives are competing but not interoperating, leading to a lack of...
Maggie Appleton
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
DeepSeek
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
The Garden of Maggie Appleton
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
It's working - Tynan's Leaflets
5 pieces of context on a single post, proving what the social web offers today
Semble — Make sense of the web, together
A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.
blog prototype as a thread... a vision for the Ultimate Website. A website for a person. POSSE/PASTA. True to the web. Durable. Sovereign. Social web internected. I've been noodling on this since last summer and since then a lot of pieces have come together to make this possible. Let's walk thru it!
I dropped by Edinburgh for a workshop on 'rewilding the web', with participation from philosophers, technologists, ecologists, architects, mathematicians, authors and landscape planners. anil.recoil.org/notes/rewilding-the-web-repor… @kathrynnave.eurosky.social @mariafarrell.eurosky.social @robin.berjon.com 🌎
Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh
anil.recoil.orgThe web we lost
A melancholy reflection about what happened to the web mixed with some positive imagination about to do about it.
What Was the Internet?
Google Reader was building the wrong future
We Build On Hope @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026
Against the dark forest
J. R. Carpenter || A Handmade Web
The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back.
