Lobsters

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.

The State of the Open Social Web

A comprehensive look at Mastodon, Bluesky, and the growing ecosystem of open, interoperable social networks.

Implementing interface attachments based on surface representations

Productive and dedicated members are critical to the success of online production communities like Wikipedia. Many communities organize in subgroups where members voluntarily work on projects of shared interest. In this paper, we investigate how members' ...

Lab Notes #008: Semble Connections - Cosmik Labs

A new way to organize, curate and discover content in the open social web

Lab Notes #008: Semble Connections - Cosmik Labs

A new way to organize, curate and discover content in the open social web

Lab Notes #008: Semble Connections - Cosmik Labs

A new way to organize, curate and discover content in the open social web

The rise of community-curated knowledge networks

The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…

LN 040: The venerable hyperlink

Decades after hyperlinks transformed humanity's information and text into a densely-linked graph, mainstream OSs have yet to afford users their benefits in personal computing.

the quintal is open

Introducing quintal: a collective blogging platform on atproto, no algorithm, no metrics, one axolotl mascot. The small internet I always wanted to live in.

Join | Mozilla Data Collective

Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre.

Join | Mozilla Data Collective

Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre.

Introducing GreenEarth

We're building advanced open source algorithms for social media

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