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The decentralization movement aims to limit the increasing centralization of the internet and digital resources into a small number of powerful platform companies. In doing so, they hope to promote free expression and resilience.

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Take Back Tech

Take Back Tech

Atlanta, GA

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, artists, tech workers, academics, lawyers, and more to rally together and strategize our next power-building moves.

Breaking Free

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.

FediDB

The Complete Fediverse Directory & Analytics Platform

Framasoft

Framasoft is a not-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipatory digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

Skyseed Fund

Bluesky created a green field with 25M users. We're the first fund exclusively focused on delighting them.

AT Protocol Community Fund

An AT Protocol community fund to support infrastructure, open source code development, and community initiatives like events and meetups.

ActivityPub tech spec

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format.

Understanding Recommenders

Understanding Recommenders is a research-driven effort to demystify recommender systems and their impact on society.

Bluesky Feeds catalog

Choose your own timeline! Feeds built by the community help you find content you love.

Pixelfed

Pixelfed

Canada 🇨🇦

Open source ActivityPub-based Instagram competitor

Cosmik

Cosmik

Cambridge, MA

Building tools and networks for collective sensemaking

Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) Working Group

The Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) working group will develop a set of Standards Track specifications that enable creation of decentralized global networks for publication of self-certifying data.

Eurosky Portal

A simple interface to help people navigate the Atmosphere - a new generation of apps & services on the web developed by an ever-growing number of startups, developers & organisations.

Raft Foundation

Raft Foundation is a US-based 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor that brings communities together to support neighbors in need through:

PeerTube

PeerTube

France 🇫🇷

A French non-profit alternative to Big Tech's video platforms

Semble

Semble

Cambridge, MA

Follow your peers' research trails.

Flashes

Flashes is a photo/video-sharing app designed for the Bluesky social network.

Communalytic

Communalytic is a no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media

DAOstar

DAOstar is building the open protocols that let scrappy rebel DAOs coordinate, interoperate, and win.

Governance Memory System (GMS)

Can a Structured Governance Memory System (GMS) be Designed and Implemented to Enable Validator-Governed Protocols and DAOs to Make Better-Aligned Decisions that Avoid Unintended Consequences, Preserve Institutional Learning, and Increase Long-Term Resilience and Adaptability?

gov/acc

gov/acc is a research program focused on accelerating governance innovation and experimentation in web3 communities.

Funders’ briefing: Standing up for safeguards

In this funders’ briefing, the European AI & Society Fund sets out how civil society groups are rallying rapidly to respond to the EU’s deregulation push to ensure hard-won public safeguards are maintained – through campaigning, advocacy and allying across causes such as climate and labour, that also face sweeping cuts in protections.

/e/OS

/e/OS

Oakland

/e/OS is an open-source mobile operating system paired with carefully selected applications.

Standard.site

Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.

A New Social

A New Social

United States of America 🇺🇸

Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.

Alternative Internet

A collection of interesting networks and technology aiming at re-decentralizing the Internet.

Meshtastic

An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices Learn More Get Started Donate

Logos

Logos

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Logos is a social movement and decentralised technology stack built to revitalise civil society.

Folk Tech

Folk Tech

British Columbia

Folk Tech is a movement among a community of developers and people who want to develop apps for their community without depending on big tech companies.

Urbit

Urbit is designed to be run by its users. Self-hosting is the way to get the most complete Urbit experience, giving you full control over your personal server.

Keep Android Open

Fighting against Google’s 2025 developer verification mandate

Wikidata Embedding Project

The project’s aim is to enhance the search functionality of Wikidata by integrating vector-based semantic search.

Cultural Memory Lab

Cultural Memory Lab

435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California

An incubator empowering community-based archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural organizations to explore decentralized strategies for preserving collective memory.

bitchat

bitchat

California

bitchat is a decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mesh networks.

Big Tech M&A Database

The Big Tech tracker for mergers and acquisitions provides an overview of companies that have been acquired by Big Tech (2019-2025). Search for a merger!

Rarimo

Unlocking a new generation of social apps, where users stay private without losing historical actions and identities

People vs. Big Tech

People vs Big Tech is a movement fighting to overturn the predatory business model of giant tech corporations and change the internet for good.

Solar Protocol

This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine.

DRAPAC VPN  (Digital Rights in Asia-Pacific)

Backed by a group of civil society organisations supporting human rights defenders in Asia-Pacific, the DRAPAC VPN Project is designed to resist blocking by internet censors.

Bluesky

Bluesky

Seattle

We’re building an open foundation for the social internet so that we can all shape its future.

Graze.social

A social media platform that allows users to create and customize their own personalized feeds, including community feeds, hobby-specific feeds, and more.

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