Gradients of intimacy and creating shelter: An interview with Erin Kissane

Cozy Community Software — Open Indie

As Commune edges closer to an early-access release, I've been musing on the concept of the cozy web vibes that we intend to cultivate in ...

epistemic garden - mapping how ideas spread online

We're building tools to help communities understand their information landscape and protect against harmful coordinated narratives.

Neighborhood Steward Fellowship | New_ Public

An eight-week program bringing together leaders of local-oriented online spaces to experiment with fun new practices and ideas

Good, Standard Work: Creating the Commons

A defence of digital stewardship, IndieWeb principles, Blackfoot models of collective flourishing, and what it means to plant seeds in a garden you'll neve…

The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web

The Internet is Full of Strangers | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02

Ambient Co-presence

Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web

Ambient Co-presence

Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web

Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh

Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.

Home

Connected places: understanding how the new social web works

Trails and public spaces — Rafael M. Batista

A reply to Kenny Peng and colleagues on designing social media around trails — and why the campground or the piazza may be the better analogy.

Local Lab | New_ Public

Helping local communities create flourishing digital spaces