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.
Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)
Xodus
...Building a movement away from toxic social media platforms, towards alternative open social media...
AHOY! 2025 - Aendra Rininsland on Queer Resilience on the Social Web - ATProto Community
AHOY! European Social Web Day in Hamburg in 2025
The Attention Forum: October 23/24th 2025
The internet was initially sold to us as a force for connection – a borderless, democratizing set of technologies that would amplify voices, allow us to spread ideas, and strengthen civil society.
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Peer2Peer: A Critical Internet Studies Gathering in LA - FCCW: Feminist Center for Creative Work
UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and FCCW Present Peer2Peer: A Critical Internet Studies Gathering in LA Friday, May 2 & Saturday, May 3 FCCW: 3035 Rosslyn St. LA, CA 90065 Info on our space Free Peer2Peer is a two-day gathering bringing together researchers, artists, archivists, and makers to think collectively and critically about the Internet. Come hear incredible new work from our research community, learn how to up your digital security, learn how to archive (or not!) the web, come laugh at jokes about the Internet! All events unless otherwise noted are open to the public. Come for an hour or stay for the whole two-days!
Erin Kissane · Videos · XOXO
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.
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …
Eddie Jiao on Twitter / X
a fun experiment from earlier this year - expandable daily briefings of news stories on an infinite canvas. pic.twitter.com/C9KaRexDq7— Eddie Jiao (@eddiejiao_obj) February 10, 2025
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
EXO Labs on Twitter / X
We had to update our site to make what we're working on more clear.You can now find our Discord, we will be running a weekly community education session starting the 24th of May!https://t.co/m11qBvE2hc pic.twitter.com/GpDibkZ6JH— EXO Labs (@exolabs) May 12, 2026
FOSDEM 2026 - Local-First, sync engines, CRDTs
Room: K.3.201 Calendar: iCal, xCal Chat: Join the conversation!
The open social web is vibrant, dynamic, and full of amazing apps and websites! At the PublicSpaces Conference in Amsterdam, we just gave out the #OpenSocialAwards. We’re excited to introduce you to these impressive, inventive winners. 🧵
Open Social Awards | New_ Public
newpublic.orgThe XAI/Anthropic deal is big in many ways, one of which is that it feels like an admission of defeat from Elon. Can't create a model good enough to compete with Claude so suddenly you've become a service provider for the company you accused of Destroying Western Civilization last month
