Emissary
Emissary is the standalone Fediverse server designed for end users, app creators, and hosting admins — that gives everyone powerful new ways to join the social web.
Public Service Internet
DASL — Data-Addressed Structures & Links
DASL ("dazzle") is a small set of simple, standard primitives for working with content-addressed, linked data. It builds on content addressing, a proven approach used in Git and IPFS to create reliable content identifiers (known as CIDs) through cryptographic hashing. Content addressing enables robust data integrity checks and efficient networking: systems can verify they received exactly what they asked for and avoid downloading the same content twice. The linked data part lets you link to stuff by its hash. You can build very big graphs with these primitives, such as the graph behind Bluesky.
Home - MCRLOT
Your local community shed: full of things you need, but don’t want to buy
There Is One Fediverse. There Are A Thousand Ways To Join It.
How a fediverse app can make a huge difference
Path Aware Networking RG (panrg)
The Internet architecture assumes a division between the end-to-end functionality of the transport layer and the properties of the path between the endpoints. The path is assumed to be invisible, homogeneous, singular, with dynamics solely determined by the connectivity of the endpoints and the Internet control plane. Endpoints have very little information about the paths over which their traffic is carried, and no control at all beyond the destination address.
The Authoritarian Stack
The Contract That Changed Everything
In late July 2025, deep within the Pentagon’s bureaucratic machinery, the U.S. Army quietly signed away a piece of its sovereignty.
A ten-billion-dollar contract with Palantir Technologies—one of the largest in the Department of Defense’s history—was framed as a move toward “efficiency.”
Journal Foundation — Privacy, Security, Sovereignty
Decentralization isn't enough. We have to anonymize, and encrypt
Eurosky
This is the next era of social media—built in Europe, run on our cloud, ruled by our laws. Users choose the content. Businesses control their brand environment. People control the algorithms.
BadgeFed Official Blog
Empowering decentralized credentialing in the Fediverse through open-source innovation.
Where is the social internet taking us?
The internet has become one of the most important spaces for social interaction we have ever seen, and the debate about its impact on all aspects of society is urgent and pressing.
Bitchat
bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks. no internet required, no servers, no phone numbers.
MeshCore - Off grid mesh radio communications system
MeshCore is a multi platform system for enabling secure text based communications utilising LoRa radio hardware. It can be used for Off-Grid Communication, Emergency Response & Disaster Recovery, Outdoor Activities, Tactical Security including law enforcement and private security and also IoT sensor networks.
United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity | United Nations
The United Nations Global Principles For Information Integrity presents a vision of a future in which power imbalances are redressed so that a small group of actors - including technology companies based in a handful of countries - no longer monopolize control over global information flows.
The principles envision an information ecosystem that delivers choice, freedom, privacy and safety for all, in which people everywhere can express themselves freely and make informed and independent decisions.
BadgeFedi - Empower Your Community with Digital Badges
Create, issue, and verify digital credentials in a decentralized, secure, and community-driven ecosystem.
FediForum | FediForum September, 2024
Notes from Fediforum Sept 2024
FediForum | FediForum June, 2025
Notes from Fediforum June 2025
If you needed to borrow something — such as a tool or ingredient — how likely would you be to ask one of your next-door neighbors for it? | Daily Question
If you needed to borrow something — such as a tool or ingredient — how likely would you be to ask one of your next‑door neighbors for it?
Where is the social internet taking us?
Report: An emerging crisis for the giant social platforms - toxic and polarised online environments, but enormous potential to transform our world in positive ways.
Public Interest Technology Group
The Public Interest Technology Group (PITG) is a loosely organized group of individuals who self-identify as public-interest technologists, or are otherwise working on and interested in, issues at the intersection of technology, rights, equity and advocacy.
NRK Lyspunkt: Sakene som gir deg gleden du trenger akkurat nå
Things that give you pause and inspiration from NRK
Lyspunkt: shining a light on positive news | Future Media Hubs
When Ingrid first had the idea for Lyspunkt, she was supposed to be just working on the news about the Covid-19 pandemic at NRK. That period was accompanied, as we have all experienced, by a lot of negative feelings and dread. Many people tried to start new things in life during the pandemic. Ingrid also felt this opportunity and wanted to do something to help those around her get through these dark days. It is at this point in time she saw an early bright spot rising.
The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto
This book presents the collectively authored Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto and accompanying materials.The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. They have created a communications landscape overwhelmed by surveillance, advertising, fake news, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and algorithmic politics. Commercial Internet platforms have harmed citizens, users, everyday life, and society. Democracy and digital democracy require Public Service Media. A democracy-enhancing Internet requires Public Service Media becoming Public Service Internet platforms – an Internet of the public, by the public, and for the public; an Internet that advances instead of threatens democracy and the public sphere. The Public Service Internet is based on Internet platforms operated by a variety of Public Service Media, taking the public service remit into the digital age. The Public Service Internet provides opportunities for public debate, participation, and the advancement of social cohesion.
The Public Service Internet - Adrian Hon - Medium
Creating the alternative to Google by Adrian Hon
Start a new co‑op
Looking to start a co‑op? Here you can access a step by step guide to starting a co‑op and register your co‑op with our online registration tool. You can apply for business support to get your new start-up off the ground in the best way possible.
Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Bike Index - Bike registration that works
A ‘Public Service Internet’—Reclaiming the Public Service Mission
A digital future is a given. A positive, sustainable, and inclusive digital future is in our hands.
Public Media Alliance
What is limitarianism? Professor Ingrid Robeyns explains