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Briar Offline Mesh: When Internet Shutdowns Cut 85M Off | byteiota
On January 8, 2026, Iran shut down the internet. 85 million people cut off, mid-protest. WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram—useless. But activists are still organizing. The tool keeping them connected is Briar, an open-source messenger that syncs via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi mesh networks, no internet required. It hit 252 points on Hacker News this week, and it’s easy to see why. When governments flip the kill switch, Briar is one of the few tools that actually works.
byline.pub is now live in beta
A home for indie authors on the AT Protocol. Publish your work and become easier to discover across the open social web.
byline.pub is now live in beta
A home for indie authors on the AT Protocol. Publish your work and become easier to discover across the open social web.
Why Your Community Needs a Home, Not Just a Group Chat
We all crave connection. And when we want to bring people together, the easiest option is to spin up a group chat. But if you’ve ever tried turning a Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp group into a real community, you’ve seen the trade-off
Neighborhood Steward Fellowship | New_ Public
An eight-week program bringing together leaders of local-oriented online spaces to experiment with fun new practices and ideas
On open-science research labs on discord and online , and getting more people.
GoToSocial
GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang. With GoToSocial, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles. All without being tracked or advertised to!
What if you could leave a social platform without leaving your community? @brittanyellich.com explains how the AT Protocol lets you own your identity, your data, and your social graph, opening the door to a more open, portable, and developer-friendly web. 🌐 youtu.be/_ZrChpf8FZ8
If you're around Berlin after the conference, check out this fun community-organised event: User Agents Berlin - two days of space for hanging and hacking with friends you met at Local-First Conf! Register here: lu.ma/v457jxp2
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lu.maThis paper claims to provide evidence offline networks matter more than online for voting preferences, but winds up mistaking noise for signal and seems to forget that some folks online are quite influential. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/10/pgaf30…
Physical partisan proximity outweighs online ties in predicting US voting outcomes
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