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Transparency on the ballot: building for MAPLE

What building ballot-question UX for MAPLE taught us about provenance and trust in civic tech

Jun 22·6 min read·1085 words

Pollen & Nectar

Putting perceptual hashes to work on the ATmosphere

Apr 16·1 min read·11 words

Pollen & Nectar

Putting perceptual hashes to work on the ATmosphere

Apr 16·1 min read·11 words

Pollen & Nectar

Putting perceptual hashes to work on the ATmosphere

Apr 16·1 min read·11 words

Navigating Media Publishing in an Agentic World

Surveying the landscape of standards and protocols that allow publishers to get paid in an agentic web.

Apr 7·1 min read·24 words

Navigating Media Publishing in an Agentic World

Surveying the landscape of standards and protocols that allow publishers to get paid in an agentic web.

Apr 7·1 min read·24 words

Navigating Media Publishing in an Agentic World

Surveying the landscape of standards and protocols that allow publishers to get paid in an agentic web.

Apr 7·1 min read·24 words

Navigating Media Publishing in an Agentic World

Surveying the landscape of standards and protocols that allow publishers to get paid in an agentic web.

Apr 7·1 min read·24 words

Introducing Rook: Sovereign Intelligence for the Solidarity Economy and Beyond

Soft launch and call for partners and supporters

Mar 13·1 min read·18 words

Introducing Rook: Sovereign Intelligence for the Solidarity Economy and Beyond

Soft launch and call for partners and supporters

Mar 13·1 min read·18 words

Introducing Rook: Sovereign Intelligence for the Solidarity Economy and Beyond

Soft launch and call for partners and supporters

Mar 13·1 min read·18 words

Introducing Rook: Sovereign Intelligence for the Solidarity Economy and Beyond

Soft launch and call for partners and supporters

Mar 13·1 min read·18 words

Introducing Rook: Sovereign Intelligence for the Solidarity Economy and Beyond

Soft launch and call for partners and supporters

Mar 13·1 min read·18 words

Introducing Rook: Sovereign Intelligence for the Solidarity Economy and Beyond

Soft launch and call for partners and supporters

Mar 13·1 min read·18 words

Introducing Rook: Sovereign Intelligence for the Solidarity Economy and Beyond

Soft launch and call for partners and supporters

Mar 13·1 min read·18 words

Fixing the 'dumb opinions' problem: Addison, Johnson, Walpole

What do 18th century writers say about posting online?

Feb 25·1 min read·17 words

Fixing the 'dumb opinions' problem: Addison, Johnson, Walpole

What do 18th century writers say about posting online?

Feb 25·1 min read·17 words

Fixing the 'dumb opinions' problem: Addison, Johnson, Walpole

What do 18th century writers say about posting online?

Feb 25·1 min read·17 words

Fixing the 'dumb opinions' problem: Addison, Johnson, Walpole

What do 18th century writers say about posting online?

Feb 25·1 min read·17 words

Fixing the 'dumb opinions' problem: Addison, Johnson, Walpole

What do 18th century writers say about posting online?

Feb 25·1 min read·17 words

Fixing the 'dumb opinions' problem: Addison, Johnson, Walpole

What do 18th century writers say about posting online?

Feb 25·1 min read·17 words

Fixing the 'dumb opinions' problem: Addison, Johnson, Walpole

What do 18th century writers say about posting online?

Feb 25·1 min read·17 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·8 min read·1411 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·1 min read·8 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·1 min read·8 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·1 min read·8 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·1 min read·8 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·1 min read·8 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·1 min read·8 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·1 min read·8 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·8 min read·1411 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·8 min read·1411 words

Similarity at scale

An overview of perceptual hashing

Feb 19·8 min read·1411 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·9 min read·1642 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·9 min read·1642 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·9 min read·1642 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·9 min read·1642 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·9 min read·1642 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·9 min read·1642 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·1 min read·24 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·1 min read·24 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·1 min read·24 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·1 min read·24 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·1 min read·24 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·1 min read·24 words

We built you a garden 🌼

A web of interconnected personal sites built on ATProto for people who want to curate their digital space.

Feb 18·1 min read·24 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·8 min read·1515 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·1 min read·11 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·8 min read·1515 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·8 min read·1515 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·1 min read·11 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·1 min read·11 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·1 min read·11 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·8 min read·1515 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·8 min read·1515 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·8 min read·1515 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·1 min read·11 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·1 min read·11 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·8 min read·1515 words

The Other AI

Exploring possibilities in a world of technological foreclosure

Feb 4·1 min read·11 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·1 min read·22 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·8 min read·1493 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·1 min read·22 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·8 min read·1493 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·8 min read·1493 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·8 min read·1493 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·8 min read·1493 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·1 min read·22 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·1 min read·22 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·1 min read·22 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·1 min read·22 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·8 min read·1493 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·8 min read·1493 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·1 min read·22 words

Who took this photo?

An explainer for publishers, platforms, and their audiences, on the technology that traces the journey of digital information.

Feb 3·8 min read·1493 words

Digital Trust Glossary

Ironing out definitions for integrity, authenticity, privacy, and more

Feb 2·1 min read·12 words

Distributed Press: 'Building the Road as We Travel'*

Reflections on building decentralized publishing infrastructure

Dec 9·8 min read·1571 words

Hypha ♥️ DASL: the library

Stricter, Stronger, Simpler

Oct 9·1 min read·8 words

In the widening gyre or thoughts on our AI epoch

Text about artificial intelligence mostly written by a human

Oct 1·1 min read·19 words

Hypha ♥️ DASL: the test suite

Writing 102 tests for science

Jul 30·1 min read·11 words

Are we a credit card yet? A blockchain performance experiment

We used experimental data to increase a blockchain’s transactions per second by 35%.

Jul 3·1 min read·23 words

Co-operative cats and deliberative dashboards

A review of recent governance-related projects

Jan 30·1 min read·11 words

Hypha Co-op + DWeb Local-First Software Weekend

Supporting local events to build alternative tech futures

Dec 12·4 min read·609 words

A Cybernetic Ecology

Reflecting on DWeb Camp 2024

Nov 26·1 min read·8 words

Hypha at the Starling Lab: storing metadata

Rewriting our data pipeline to use Authenticated Attributes

Oct 10·1 min read·15 words

Announcing the Co-Creation Lab

A vision for reclaiming tech for the arts, culture, and activism through holistic co-creation

Sep 12·1 min read·18 words

Cultural democracy & quadratic voting

Putting the “public” back in “public art” in one North London park and beyond

Sep 11·1 min read·19 words

Museum membership futures

Helping Basel’s HEK build digital community with the world’s first tokenized museum membership

Sep 11·1 min read·16 words

Running the Interchain Security Lightning Experiment

Testing blockchain software at scale

Jul 24·1 min read·11 words

Talking Timewave with Udit Vira

A quick dive into internet-native organizations and cross-chain protocols

Jul 4·6 min read·1036 words

Social Reader is out!

The Social Reader is a privacy-first personal reader for subscribing to content published on federated social media.

May 13·2 min read·369 words

Beyond Tokens: Non-Fungible Treasures for Decentralized Worldbuilding

Art, Technology, and Collective Storytelling in the Blockchain Era

Feb 29·1 min read·16 words

Announcing Distributed.Press Social Inbox 1.0

Our new feature brings social interactions to static websites on the decentralized web.

Dec 5·1 min read·18 words

Technological futures under the redwoods

Ruminations on DWeb Camp 2023

Aug 22·1 min read·10 words

Strategy is ___________.

Updates on the strategic planning process

Jun 5·1 min read·9 words

Distributed Press v1 Announcement

Distributed Press, a tool developed by Hypha, has undergone a major rewrite. We are excited to share the latest version.

Apr 25·1 min read·24 words

Cyber-visions of altruism

Exploring the entanglement of Web3 and public goods

Mar 1·1 min read·11 words

Hypha at the Starling Lab: Murmurations and peregrinations in trustful digital ecosystems

Reviewing 2022 highlights from one of Hypha’s most important collaborators

Jan 30·1 min read·22 words

Hypha Reads

Articles, tweets, and videos that resonated with us this month

Nov 30·1 min read·12 words

Check the specs: final thoughts on p2p options

Part 4 of our P2p Primer

Oct 25·1 min read·14 words

In solidarity with Iran: a response to Signal’s community call

Hypha members weigh in on proxy battles and the importance of local-first networks

Sep 26·1 min read·23 words

Gardens in the Computer

The Digital Garden is planted with our initial seeds: references to publishing, protocols, RSS, and co-operative approaches.

Sep 24·1 min read·21 words

‘Staking’ identities: looking at the practicalities of transforming DAOs into co-ops

Can DAOs meet the requirements of the 7 Cooperative Principles?

Aug 11·1 min read·21 words

Sense and Serendipity

Checking in on the Restructuring Futures Project, a Hypha collaboration

Jul 28·1 min read·13 words

Finding friends and staying safe: comparing peer discoverability and security in p2p networks

Part 3 of our P2P Primer

Jun 29·1 min read·19 words

The Debate Over DWeb vs. Web3 & The Decentralized Elephant in the Room

What matters in this discussion – in any discussion over a technology really – is who’s designing it, who controls it, and who stands to benefit?

May 17·1 min read·39 words

Data Fast and Slow: Exploring Data Models and Mutability

Part 2 of our P2P Primer

Apr 26·1 min read·15 words

Taking the Mauve Pill: Exploring Alternatives to the Centralized Web

A Peer to Peer Primer: Comparing Protocols

Mar 28·1 min read·17 words

Decentralized Governance Requires Meaningful Participation

Our proposal to renovate the Cosmos Hub Discourse Forum as a well-organized space for debate and deliberation

Feb 8·1 min read·22 words

Data Lost and Found in a Distributed System

Healing data loss with Matrix’s federated protocols

Feb 7·1 min read·15 words

Emergent practices from the decentralized co-operative web

Building tools and practices that enable organizations to work more transparently, equitably, and collaboratively.

Sep 30·8 min read·1513 words

Making change with the decentralized web

Reflections on MozFest session on social transformation and movement tactics

Jul 28·1 min read·16 words

Listening at Scale with Polis

Exploring the decision-supporting tool that maps group opinions.

May 3·1 min read·13 words

How we co-operate

Notes on incorporation, co-operation, and solidarity from a one year old co-op.

Feb 25·6 min read·1166 words