Own your community.

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. …

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.

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.

De-google-ify Internet - Main Page

The web giants centralize our digital lives in exchange for their services The Free Software community offers alternative ethical services The Framasoft network intends to prove itby hosting them

Meta’s “Trusted Experts” helped me run scam ads on Facebook and Instagram

A Reuters reporter created ads promising unrealistic investment returns and easily placed them on Meta's social media platforms.

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.

AI may fatally wound web’s ad model, warns Tim Berners-Lee

Web inventor warns reliance on AI agents threatens multibillion-dollar revenues for Google and Meta

Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)

The decline of the advertising supported internet is inevitable yet sad. Tech has been unique in being an equalizer. A poor Nigerian kid, a techie in the US or Jeff Bezos all used the same apps and websites. Now many charge $5-$15 per month creating a huge financial divide. Online advertising is a progressive form of taxation as the rich, mostly US-based consumers who buy goods & services from ads subsidized the internet for everyone else. We now live in the flat tax version of the internet.