Community tools to help you reclaim your content from centralised services.
Winning back the Open Web
Walled gardens dominate because their massive data collection lets them deliver superior user experiences. To win back the open web, we need to build alternatives that respect users, embrace open standards, and still feel unmistakably better to use.
Vaulting Out of Walled Gardens with Fancy Links – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Have you ever noticed that in Twitter, Facebook, Google and Pinterest some links are displayed quite fancily, with preview images, descriptive text summaries and other information? These ...
The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled Gardens, and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web - Zsolt's pckt blog
We have known this for years. We have known that the major platforms are bad for our attention, our sleep, our politics, our children, and our sense of reality....
Avoiding Walled Gardens on the Internet
I occasionally get requests to join private social networking sites, like LinkedIn or Facebook. I always politely decline. I understand the appeal of private social networking, and I mean no disrespect to the people who send invites. But it’s just not for me. I feel very strongly that we
microcosm: atproto building blocks
Open-source atproto services and resilient community infrastruture to launch your next app
microcosm: atproto building blocks
Open-source atproto services and resilient community infrastruture to launch your next app
Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet
A growing number of people are creating individualized, creative sites that eschew the one-size-fits-all look and feel of social media
gifthood.community
Give and receive free things with your neighbors. Everything free, always.
OpenMeet
OpenMeet is an open-source platform helping people build stronger local communities - from neighborhood groups to city-wide networks. - OpenMeet
Donate to #FreeOurFeeds - help secure the future of social media, organized by Free Our Feeds
Free Our Feeds | A campaign to keep social media open, people-po… Free Our Feeds needs your support for #FreeOurFeeds - help secure the future of social media
Code may be easier now, but running infrastructure and building community are still hard. I wrote for the @newpublic.org newsletter this week, exploring how atproto + llms could make a great pair to restore agency and empower communities in a sustainable way. newpublic.substack.com/p/ai-that-helps-communities-t…
✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms
newpublic.substack.comDigital gardening
Digital gardens in theory and practice
oleeskild/obsidian-digital-garden
Tranquil PDS
Garden and the Stream - thoughts
Digital Gardens (by owais) — Semble
digital gardens (by treethought) — Semble
