Free, open-source forum software built by the community. Beautiful, fast, and extensible — made for communities of all sizes.
ModGov - Governance for online communities
A simple, flexible framework that helps online communities create shared rules, elect representative moderators, and ensure stability.
The evolution of expert communities
A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
progression.fyi
A collection of open source frameworks for helping designers and engineers to grow at work
What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums
Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.
OpenMeet
OpenMeet is an open-source platform helping people build stronger local communities - from neighborhood groups to city-wide networks. - OpenMeet
Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky
Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.
Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky
Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.
co/infra
Free, public infrastructure for the open social web, run as a community cooperative. - co/infra
Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation - Bluesky
Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.
Roomy and community organizing for system change
Roomy is a group messaging app that gives online communities tools for autonomous collaboration — designable spaces not just for chat, but for cultivating a web of shared understanding together. We show how cheap, user-controlled, interoperable data on ATProto can enable online communities to channel impassioned mobilizing into sustained organizing in the shadow of Big Tech's empire.
Experimenting with the idea of a fully skeuomorphic @lexicon.community events client that focuses on flyers & posters instead of thumbnails/icons and will be aimed at local groups and venues. Just had fun with procedural-generation of the corkboard background.
excited to share lichen.page, a cms for static site generators, built on atproto there are also a number of other strange things about it. I would describe it as a sort of software as research, but you can also use it, and curious what people make of it
A community proposal for a `community.lexicon.download` or `community.lexicon.file` lexicon is open for discussion -- file sharing with multi-method distribution (PDS blobs, IPFS, BitTorrent). @nezumi.eurosky.social is seeking collaborators. Share your feedback on Discourse.
Purposal: General purpose File sharing / Download links lexicon?
discourse.atmosphere.communitybsky-clients
retired in favor of atstore.fyi for client apps that don’t provide unique community features
tomarigi — とまり木
feeds.social — Minimalist Bluesky Client
akari
SkyDeck
Aerune App - App Store
Couch Sky - Bluesky social network for your Television
