Supporting decentralized social tech and open standards to create trustworthy, public-interest social media alternatives and ensure access to vital information.
Announcing the Modal Foundation - Updates from the Modal Foundation
We're a nonprofit dedicated to supporting decentralized social technologies that help people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information.
Announcing mu.social, and other news - Updates from the Modal Foundation
Major updates and announcements
Modal Collective
We do development, design, organizing, policy campaigning, and more to make computing more useful, secure, and resilient. Our work is centered around software infrastructure projects such as GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, systemd, and the Linux kernel.
Incubating Aster - Updates from the Modal Foundation
We at the Modal Foundation are excited to share the news of our support for Aster.id, a new home for researchers on the open web. Aster grows out of the ATsc…
What is Modal - Modal Collective
Modal is an independent collective building emancipatory software.
Newsmast Foundation - Social Community App
Bring your people and content together in a safer, calmer, independent space supported by an education charity.
Funding Challenges and the Future of Our Work
Over the past two years Independent Federated Trust and Safety (IFTAS) has provided crucial support to independent, decentralised social media moderators, administrators, and community managers. Ou…
Medsky
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
FediMod FIRES on building better and decentralised social media applications
Continuing our monthly interview series "Building a Free Internet of the Future", we talked to Emelia Smith, who is a software engineer. “Building a Free Internet of the Future" highlights the experiences and perspectives of individuals and communities supported by the NGI Zero (NGI0) grants, funded by the European Commission.
Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media
Bluesky is a new social network built upon the AT Protocol, a decentralized foundation for public social media. It was launched in private beta in February 2023, and has grown to over 10 million registered users by October 2024. In this paper we introduce the architecture of Bluesky and the AT Protocol, and explain how the technical design of Bluesky is informed by our goals: to enable decentralization by having multiple interoperable providers for every part of the system; to make it easy for users to switch providers; to give users agency over the content they see; and to provide a simple user experience that does not burden users with complexity arising from the system's decentralized nature. The system's openness allows anybody to contribute to content moderation and community management, and we invite the research community to use Bluesky as a dataset and testing ground for new approaches in social media moderation.
Foundation
Foundation learns from your agent sessions and maintains a self-improving wiki of everything you and your team know.
New Paradigms in Trust and Safety: Navigating Defederation on Decentralized Social Media Platforms
Defederation on decentralized social media offers new possibilities for online governance. Experts consider how it can be used responsibly, in a way that balances speech and safety.
Welcome to the Web of Trust
Empowering individuals to co-create decentralized systems for lasting mutual benefit.
Announcing mu.social, and other news
modalfoundation.leaflet.pubThe foundation of personal computing is the filesystem. The foundation of the internet is a networked filesystem. The foundation of a new social web will likely be a social filesystem. (It remains an ope question if atproto is such a foundation)
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It seems a fork lies ahead, is atproto a portable database for a bunch of apps or a new type of post-app, social filesystem?
