One platform with 100+ integrations. Automated and engineered to scale from 100 to 1 million members.
npmx: converging communities
The story of the many people and communities that converged to build npmx together
Where Tech Companies Build Communities
The customizable, scalable community platform powering over 22,000 communities. Create knowledge through conversation.
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.
Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.
Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media
Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in accordance with their values. Yet, communities do not govern in isolation. Many problems communities face are common, or move across their boundaries. We therefore propose designing for "inter-community governance:" mechanisms that support relationships and interactions between communities to coordinate on governance issues. Drawing from workshops with 24 individuals on decentralized, community-run social media, we present six challenges in designing for inter-community governance surfaced through ideas proposed in workshops. Together, these ideas come together as an ecosystem of resources, infrastructures, and tools that highlight three key principles for designing for inter-community governance: modularity, forkability, and polycentricity. We end with a discussion of how the ideas proposed in workshops might be implemented in future work aiming to support community governance in social computing systems broadly.
Join the Agregore Discord Server!
An off-grid dev kit for the peer to peer web. Browse and author without any central servers. | 216 members
Platform Cooperativism Consortium | A hub that helps you start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops.
A hub that helps you start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops.
Sustainable coordination in research labs via graph-enabled idea boards
Our 'graph-enabled idea board' serves as a hub for capturing excess research ideas, allocating microprojects, and properly attributing credit. We'd like to investigate its potential for enabling newcomers to quickly and effectively contribute to ongoing projects.
Open Gaming Collective | The Future of Linux Gaming
A collaborative working group building a unified set of gaming-focused components for the Linux ecosystem. Focused on upstream-first development.
Strengthening Online Communities | Rise Against Big Tech Powerbase
Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
FR#168 – LLMs Join The Fediverse
How to build a fediverse community when bots are indistinguishable from humans on applications to join?
co/infra
Free, public infrastructure for the open social web, run as a community cooperative. - co/infra
Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.
