Communities shouldn’t be opaque. When someone considers joining one, they shouldn’t have to wonder what the group is really all about, or whether they’ll feel welcome there or not. Ideally there would always be some kind of window they could look through—a way to take a peek at the who, what, and why of the space. (We’re lucky to have such a window of our own, but not every online space does.)
Thoughts on Communities | unDraw Blog
Even with the best intentions and people eager to join, most attempts to create communities fail and will continue to do so.
OpenMeet - Your Community, Your Privacy, Your Power
The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
OpenMeet - Your Community, Your Privacy, Your Power
The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
What Good Is ‘Community’ When Someone Else Makes All the Rules? (Published 2018)
Life online can offer us a sense of belonging in any number of virtual villages. But the power to control those spaces isn’t very communal at all.
Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse
Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Community-Moderated Content - Nick's Blog
A community can own spaces the way a person does: a club's members post to each other under a dedicated community DID, with a feed space for content, a moderation space for notes, a labels space for filtering, and a single app view as the only window into any of it.
Starting and Running a User Group
Join me as I look at what it takes to start and run a user group community.
The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need
Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People
A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL.Although communities feel magical, they don’t come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a movement of K–12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them.In Get Together, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto of People & Company share true stories of everyday people who have created thriving communities, both in person and online. They provide clear steps to untangle the challenge of getting passionate people together, helping individuals and organizations navigate the intricacies of leading a community, including: - How to rally the first people - How to get people talking - How to attract new, authentic folks - How to develop leaders and expand globally.The People & Company team reminds us that we each hold the potential to spark a community. Get Together shows readers that if we join forces—as company and customers, artist and fans, organizer and advocates—we’ll do more together than we ever could alone.
A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats
Key privacy settings and best practices.
Digital Sanctuaries Mimic a Sense of Community and Belonging. Do They Succeed? | Highbrow Magazine
Discord channels have become the new salons; group chats are our bowling alleys.
About - Open Collective
Open Collective was founded by idealists to make online communities more sustainable. What began as a tool for open source and grassroots groups has grown into a global infrastructure for transparency, collaboration, and shared financial stewardship.
Creating a Flourishing Digital Public Space for Your Local Area | Notion
A how-to guide for admins and moderators of inclusive, uplifting, and public-spirited local Facebook groups, Discord servers, subreddits, and more...
Your Identity, Your Events: How OpenMeet Gives Every User an AT Protocol Account
The free, open-source alternative to Meetup. Create groups and events for your community — no fees, no ads, community-owned forever.
Bonfire — build your community a world of its own
A space a community owns together, shaped to how you already gather, and connected to the whole open social web on your own terms.
Your Online Clubhouse
I’ve gotten in the habit of explaining Discourse to people as a clubhouse. A place on the Internet that belongs exclusively to you and your friends – whether you have 10 friends or a few hundred thousand.
