Embracing more than 100 countries, Servas provides a network for its members to make contact, to build friendships and to broaden our understanding of the world. By connecting as hosts, travellers, or supporters, online or in person, we promote peace and tolerance, while encouraging environmentally sustainable meetings and lifestyles with less ecological impact.
Home - Nos: The Human Network
A decentralised mesh of communities and individuals built by and for the people. Nos is social media for humans, not algorithms.
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Solidarity Infrastructures is a class that brings together creative practitioners from respective communities to investigate, strategize, upskill, and dream toward alternative socio-technological systems.
Solidarity Infrastructures
Solidarity Infrastructures is a class that brings together creative practitioners to investigate, strategize, upskill, and dream toward alternative socio-technological systems.
Bonfire
A federated social network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives.
Collective Flourishing
Our tools for navigating the future haven't kept pace with its growing complexity. Creating new systems that integrate a deep understanding of people, profound advances in modelling and foresight, and expressive interfaces could help us see, reason, and choose a better future together.
(PDF) Canal: Scaling Social Network-Based Sybil Tolerance Schemes
PDF | There has been a flurry of research on leveraging social networks to defend against multiple identity, or Sybil, attacks. A series of recent works... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
The inequities of our remote gathering tools
As we’ve been transitioning our in-person communities to virtual ones, our modes of interaction are now firmly established in tiny…
A New Social
Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.
A New Social
Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.
OStatus Community Group
OStatus is a suite of protocols that lets people on different social networks interact. This group will develop the next version of the protocol.
Toward Wayfinding Infrastructure for the Living Web · Atlas Research Group
Our world is getting crazier by the day. Our old maps and compasses weren’t made for this complexity. While new tools may open up amazing possibilities, they also make it easier to lose ourselves – especially when they don’t belong to us, and make us vulnerable to other people’s hidden choices and unsavory intentions about what is worth attending to.
An analysis of social network-based Sybil defenses | Request PDF
Request PDF | An analysis of social network-based Sybil defenses | Recently, there has been much excitement in the research community over using social networks to mitigate multiple identity, or Sybil, attacks. A... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
DWeb Virtual Meetup — Jan 2025 — Latest in the DWeb Ecosystem
DWeb Virtual Meetup (January 2026) featuring speakers sharing their latest DWeb product releases and community organizing efforts. SPEAKERSmauve signweaver, Awana Digital: Awana Digital supports those working to defend their human and environmental rights, but who lack the tools to do so. Their local partners represent marginalized communities worldwide, including Indigenous Peoples and ethnic minorities. They train local partners to use basic digital tools to gather, share, and manage information about environmental and human rights infractions. mauve presented CoMapeo Abare, an open-source local-first Android app designed with Indigenous communities, to enable non-technical users to easily map and document biodiversity, environmental threats, and human rights abuses.Blaine Cook, New_ Public: New_ Public is a nonprofit focused on building digital public spaces that foster connection, facilitate pluralism, and encourage civic engagement. Blaine presented Roundabout, their new social app and website to improve information sharing in rural and suburban towns, and city neighborhoods — areas with about 10,000-50,000 people.Afri Schoedon, Department of Decentralization (DoD): The Department of Decentralization is a collective of people from Berlin, who first assembled in 2018 to organize ETHBerlin hackathon. They aim to be an agnostic vehicle to drive adoption, educate newcomers, and raise awareness of the challenges and benefits of decentralization and open-source software. Afri shared their experience of previous DoD events and share the technologies and approaches that their collective sees as being on the horizon of network decentralization.Facilitated by DWeb Senior Organizer, mai ishikawa sutton
From Volunteer Gardening to Building Next-Gen Distributed Web Apps: My Journey to Holochain App…
A story about discovering community, a mind-warping internet paradigm and a global network of unconventional software engineers.
Scholary infrastructure and the research nexus
The research nexus is "a rich and reusable open network of relationships connecting research organisations, people, things, and actions; a scholarly record that the global community can build on forever, for the benefit of society." (crossref.org/documentation/research-nexus/)
How Grobid uses Crossref metadata to enrich bibliographic information - Crossref
Schema 5.5 now available: adding CRediT, new record types for blogs and posters, and more - Crossref
Scholarly blogs and their place in the research nexus - Crossref
Rogue Scholar
SemRepo.org
Science discussions of retracted articles on Bluesky: public scrutiny or misinformation spreading?