Apps - Social Media Lab

Common Fabric

A social computing lab. We are building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps.

Social apps | at-store

Social-layer apps focused on posting, discovery, conversation, and relationship-building across the network.

What to Know About the E.U.’s New Age Verification App for Social Media

The E.U.’s new age verification app aims to address concerns raised by tech platforms around privacy and enforcement.

Open Social Network Cookbook

The Open Social Network Cookbook is the collective product of the Open Social Incubator, a cohort that MEDLab hosted from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025. At the heart of our work together was the question: How can the online communities that we participate in use tools that truly reflect our values?

FR#157 – Social Software Distribution

Open social protocols are expanding beyond social media into the infrastructure developers use to build, distribute, and discover software. Three recent launches show what that looks like in practice.

Regular exchange of issues between lab members to share research tasks

At the start of this project, we suggested that our graph-based "issue dashboards" would be used widely by members ...

Best Social Apps

Connect, share, and engage. Explore a variety of social apps to stay connected with friends and communities.

Traditional Social Media as a Prison - What’s Happening on My Feed?

Social media apps have become a vehicle for community building, world news, and political campaigns. As app owners have enmeshed themselves more with the state, the carceral logics that haunt marginalized communities offline, became a part of their digital realities online.

Analytics on the Open Social Web • RocheBit

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about analytics on the open social web. I would love to hear how others approach this topic, and share my own perspective.

Traditional Social Media as a Prison · What’s Happening on My Feed?

Social media apps have become a vehicle for community building, world news, and political campaigns. As app owners have enmeshed themselves more with the state, the carceral logics that haunt marginalized communities offline, became a part of their digital realities online.