Own your community.

Private Site

Build a website. Sell your stuff. Write a blog. And so much more.

Private Site

Build a website. Sell your stuff. Write a blog. And so much more.

WordPress, Your Way

Create your site. Share your voice. Earn online.

Fund Your Internet

Sustain the things you value online.

Let's fund the open social web

A pro-social approach to building better platforms

co/infra

Free, public infrastructure for the open social web, run as a community cooperative. - co/infra

Governance of Ad Requests by a Union of Diverse Actors (GARUDA)

Governance for advertising on the Web

PieFed - Explore Anything, Discuss Everything.

Federated, open‑source, ad‑free, and fully under your control. Build or join a community that reflects your values with no corporate overlords. …

If I started fresh

What would I do if I was building an open social web platform from scratch?

Grant for the web

The Interledger Foundation’s Grant for the Web program awarded $200,000 in total to content publishers and publishing platforms in 2025. Grantees are implementing support for Web Monetization and exploring the viability of a revenue model between ad-supported access and paywalls using Web Monetization..

Getting Started

Now more than ever privacy, impact, openness and cost matter.

Keep Your Friends Close — Open Tech Strategies | Blog

One of the insider secrets of free and open source software (FOSS) is that most of the rules a project uses on a day-to-day basis are not found in the software’s license. There are contribution guidelines, which are enforced by the project only taking contributions that meet them. There are codes of conduct, which are a condition of community participation. There are endorsements, official membership, a voice in setting the project roadmap, and all kinds of other benefits that attach to varying types of community participation. In each case, entirely external to the license, there are official rules and unwritten norms that govern how participants gain the benefits of joining the civic life of a project.

The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization

Sure, we have open source, federated replacements for Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube. How do we get creators to use this stuff? One consideration involves the ability to pay for things.