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🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏿‍♂️ Democratizing power in online communities

PolicyKit’s Amy Zhang on disrupting the dominant, top–down governance model

Nov 26 •

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🧩 Prototype to pattern: Using New_ Public's design process

Plus: Announcing our co-design partnership with Hylo

Nov 12 •

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Adriana Rivas Ruffatti

👀 🙌 Behind the scenes: A peek into the work of online community stewards

Our team interviews moderators about their challenges and triumphs

Oct 29 •

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Adit Dhanushkodi

✍️ Introducing our Digital Spaces Directory

Explore 200+ social products: Acter to Yubo and everything in between

Oct 15 •

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0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ A platform with no likes, no follower count, and no comments

Sublime builder Sari Azout on the joy of discovery and insight

Oct 1 •

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🧙🏽‍♀️ The secret power of digital Dungeon Masters

Forming community, one quest at a time

Sep 17 •

🗳️ Opt-in for a better democracy.

How we can combine design, journalism, and economics to promote healthy participation in digital public spaces.

Aug 20 •

Victoria Sgarro

💁‍♀️ Making space for a show and tell.

New stories from the field that are inspiring us.

Aug 6 •

💐 Introducing our Community Stewards Guild.

Meet the five leaders helping us build healthier digital public spaces.

Jul 23 •

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🏕️ DWeb debrief: 10 new apps for groups & communities.

some notes on the decentralized web, from the heart of the redwoods

Jul 9 •

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