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.

common needs need commons. Instead of tech that depends on a few big platforms and “cloud providers,” we make Lo-Fi (local first), peer-to-peer, decentralized, open-source tech for us, ordinary people collaborating with one another. We don’t need exponential growth. In the modern world, extraction happens without the structure to prevent it. We work at the speed of trust, and cultivate proliferation among networks, not celebrities and scale. Taking inspiration from the DIY and underground movements of the past, we use community-driven design, practical ingenuity, and on-the-ground needs to inspire and guide our work.