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Reimagining Social Networks: Thinking Beyond The ‘Twitter Box’ (Zuzalu 2023)

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Reimagining Social Networks: Thinking Beyond The ‘Twitter Box’ (Zuzalu 2023)

At Zuzalu 2023, the panel titled "Reimagining Social Networks" explored innovative ideas and fresh perspectives on social networking, pushing beyond the conventional boundaries set by platforms like Twitter.

Highlights from the AKASHA & UrbeTalk Meetup 🐺

Highlights from the AKASHA & UrbeTalk Meetup 🐺

AKASHA Hub Barcelona welcomed the 10th UrbeTalk.

Mihai Alisie & Urbe Unplugged: Breaking the Chains of Centralization

Mihai Alisie & Urbe Unplugged: Breaking the Chains of Centralization

Mihai Alisie bridges the gap between local activism and the creation of the AKASHA Foundation, championing decentralized platforms.

Zuzalu & AKASHA: Learning from a Digital Nomad Pop-Up Community in Montenegro

Zuzalu & AKASHA: Learning from a Digital Nomad Pop-Up Community in Montenegro

The AKASHA Team was stoked to receive an invitation to become Zuzalu's inaugural inhabitants or "Zuzalians.” Zuzalu, a unique pop-up city community in Montenegro, operated from March 25 to May 25, 2023. Conceived by Vitalik Buterin with an amazing team of local and international supporters, this vibrant community attracted up

ETH Denver 2023: BUIDLing A Mile-High

ETH Denver 2023: BUIDLing A Mile-High

Every morning from February 24 through March 5th, as the sun rose over the picturesque city of Denver, Colorado, 20,000 to 25,000 crypto enthusiasts gathered at the National Western Complex, aka $SPORK CASTLE, for ETH Denver, to experience a lineup of top speakers, hands-on workshops, hackathons, games, and

The Next Chapter of AKASHA: From World 0 to World 1 ✨🌍✨

The Next Chapter of AKASHA: From World 0 to World 1 ✨🌍✨

AKASHA will launch its next-generation social platform, AKASHA World, in Q2 of 2023.

Who will fix the Internet?

Who will fix the Internet?

On October 27th, Elon Musk closed the deal with Twitter and took the company private. On the next day, October 28th, Twitter stock was delisted from the NYSE, and all trading of the stock was frozen. Since that day, the world of social media startups has been holding its breath

AKASHA Conversations #9 — Web3 needs more UX Researchers and Designers

AKASHA Conversations #9 — Web3 needs more UX Researchers and Designers

AKASHA Conversations is a monthly event where we explore the critical aspects of decentralized social networking. While we have focused on moderation in the first six conversations, we are now transitioning to highlighting decentralized social networks and emergent Web3 communities. For this ninth AKASHA Conversation, we were delighted to have

AKASHA Conversations #8 - Communities of Care-full Learning with Andy Tudhope

AKASHA Conversations #8 - Communities of Care-full Learning with Andy Tudhope

AKASHA Conversations is a monthly event where we explore the critical aspects of decentralized social networking. While we have focused on moderation in the first six conversations, we are now transitioning to highlight dsocial networks and emergent Web3 communities and the way they shape and utilize Web3 tools. For the

Digitalizing human identity

Digitalizing human identity

Human identity is conceived slightly differently by each discipline in their varied attempts to explain the world and how our species survives and thrives. While they may have differences, they have one thing in common — none looks anything like digital identity. Or perhaps I should write — digital identity looks nothing

AKASHA Conversations #7 — Regenerating The Social Fabric Through Play

AKASHA Conversations #7 — Regenerating The Social Fabric Through Play

We were pleased to be joined by James Weir and LCC from we{collective} (WeCo) for this month’s AKASHA Conversation. WeCo is building a platform that creates public places in holonic structures. WeCo defines itself as “a collective intelligence experiment working to manifest the world brain by 2030.” 🌍 The

AKASHA Conversations #6 — Monster Island and the Ethics of Moderating

AKASHA Conversations #6 — Monster Island and the Ethics of Moderating

This month’s conversation was with Aaron Rabinowitz! 🎙️ Aaron is a secular moral philosophy educator with 10+ years of experience helping students develop their capacities for flourishing and value-centered community organizing. He’s currently working on a PhD in education at Rutgers University, with a focus on developing a new

DAO Camp: The DAO coming of age moment

DAO Camp: The DAO coming of age moment

Introduction I don’t get to go to many crypto events these days. The responsibilities of middle age tend to make it difficult to go and get deep into the vibe flow. I’m cool with that. I don’t like being away from my wife and daughter and I

New Release 🎊 Ethereum World Apps — New Navigation Sidebar — Personalized Feeds — Dark Mode

New Release 🎊 Ethereum World Apps — New Navigation Sidebar — Personalized Feeds — Dark Mode

What's new and what's coming next?

AKASHA Conversations #5 — Intentional Culture Design for Moderating

AKASHA Conversations #5 — Intentional Culture Design for Moderating

What is the culture of your workplace? Your education establishment? Your neighbourhood? If we adopt the definition of culture as the way things are done around here (Drennan, 1992), then how might we begin to articulate the answer? Are you drawn to making absolute or relative observations? Are some ways

The AKASHA Foundation team at OFFSCRIPT 2022

The AKASHA Foundation team at OFFSCRIPT 2022

María Sanmartín and Martin Etzrodt gathered for Offscript - a conference focused on Web 3 UX and Product Design. The conference took place on the Comporta peninsula, two hours south of Lisbon Portugal. The conference occurred at an intimate venue that encouraged personal connection and discussion. Many new and lasting

Implementing analytics on Ethereum World, an open discussion on the rationale and your choices

Implementing analytics on Ethereum World, an open discussion on the rationale and your choices

The AKASHA Foundation cares deeply about privacy. This is how Ethereum World is planning to use Matomo analytics to improve UI/UX. You can decide whether or not you wish to contribute to analytics, and you may change your mind at any time.

We need to talk about the social graph

We need to talk about the social graph

Who doesn’t love a good concept?! Concepts are the fundamental building blocks of thinking, of designing. While there are plenty of things in the mix when it comes to contemplating system design, if the primary concepts remain unchallenged and unchanged from what came before, then the outcome will likely

$AKASHA Conversations #3 — an idea called fractal localism$

AKASHA Conversations #3 — an idea called fractal localism

ur monthly AKASHA Conversations explore critical facets of decentralized social networking, with a focus this quarter at least on all things moderating. Yesterday we welcomed Murat Ayfer as our expert speaker. Murat is our kind of guy. Having experienced the lows, highs, and more lows of moderating a 60k+ member

AKASHA Conversations #2 — Lessons from moderating web2 social networks

AKASHA Conversations #2 — Lessons from moderating web2 social networks

Here’s how we set up the second AKASHA Conversation ... Where does #web3 go after #DeFi? It gets social! 💫 And the difference between social and antisocial = new designs for moderating. You can read about the first Conversation in this series on moderating here FYI, and I will just borrow the

AKASHA Conversations #1 — Designing for moderating decentralized social networks

AKASHA Conversations #1 — Designing for moderating decentralized social networks

AKASHA Conversations is a regular webinar exploring the critical questions of decentralized social networking, with expert presentations informing and inspiring open dialogue and action. To put it another way, AKASHA Conversations is designed to foster the collective design of decentralized conversation. Decentralized social networking is, effectively, the design for decentralized