As Commune edges closer to an early-access release, I've been musing on the concept of the cozy web vibes that we intend to cultivate in our app. Internet friends My first foray into the cozyverse was IRC. Short for Internet Relay Chat, it's the precursor to the largely unchanged group
Online community platforms are assembly-kits for large, communal bonfires, designed to draw people towards the light and into the warm togetherness of community. I think the primary function of bonfire software is to create space for group-scale discourse. Riffing on thoughts about healthy information consumption, Tom Critchlow described his personal
I've previously written about the multi-app platform of my dreams as a community professional: The Community OS stack. While undeniably ambitious, it's a vision firmly grounded in practicality. Thanks to the compounding value of open source and standard web protocols, the path to digital discourse nirvana can be mapped out
The Great Untangling: Part 1 – Shaping the foundations. To sufficiently express my identity as a netizen I require: * global group messaging: Discord * local group messaging: Telegram * secure & sovereign messaging: Element (Matrix) * first-contact messaging: Gmail and.. * collective thinking: GDdocs/Notion * collective writing: Writing.as * collective learning: Omnivore, PocketCasts, Inoreader and.. * interactive