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Writer/researcher Erin Kissane is working to build better and safer networks for collective survival, with efforts including the COVID Tracking Project, a powerful 40,000 word analysis of Meta’s role in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, and current research into the culture and governance of the next wave of social networks.

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.
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Kagi Small Web | Kagi Blog
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. ----------------------- What is Kagi Small Web? ----------------------- To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers to the non-commercial part of the web, crafted by individuals to express themselves or share knowledge without seeking any financial gain.
Weird netizens — Open Indie
It's been a year since I wrote about Weird web pages as a prospective catalyst for the reclamation of my digital identity. There's been s...



Gradients of intimacy and creating shelter: An interview with Erin Kissane
How might we use nature as an inspiration for creating online communities?
Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)
One thing I left out of my The Everything Account piece was a whole section on Bridgy Fed. Short version: As Bridgy Fed adds more lexicons, it makes the Atmosphere the most versatile and data-owning Fediverse instance in the open social web. Perhaps in a future piece 😉
Anuj Ahooja
I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know you already have one; here's how you use it:
New: ATmosphere Report #145, with collections of links to interesting atproto articles for November This time, the links are on-protocol, as a @cosmik.network collection, with a page that lets you follow the conversations on @leaflet.pub and @bsky.app traverse.connectedplaces.online
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!
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