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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

Ethereum World v0.2 Release - What's New?

Ethereum World v0.2 Release - What's New?

The refactoring, moderation transparency log, rich previews of links, editing and deleting posts, new profile pages

Self-Sovereign Identity — the book, the dystopia

Self-Sovereign Identity — the book, the dystopia

Manning Publications has just published "Self-Sovereign Identity: Decentralized digital identity and verifiable credentials". ISBN-13: 978-1617296598 / ISBN-10: 1617296597 Congratulations to the co-editors, Alex Preukschat and Drummond Reed, for getting 24 chapters, 5 appendices, and a further 11 online-only chapters out the door. No mean feat. My copy will drop

Two Concepts of Liberty and Infinite Permutations of Moderating

Two Concepts of Liberty and Infinite Permutations of Moderating

tl;dr * Social networking without moderating is impossible * For-profit social networks might do their best at moderating, but their best is not good enough * If your particular community considers sacrosanct the freedom to put anything in front of anyone else, then where is the viewer’s freedom? * Moderating is like

Ethereum World from the Viewpoint of Ostrom's Principles

Ethereum World from the Viewpoint of Ostrom's Principles

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for her work on economic governance. "While others wrote gloomily of the tragedy of the commons, seeing only overfishing and over farming in a free-for-all of greed, Mrs. Ostrom, with her loud laugh and louder tops,

Web3 Social Networks: The Interweave of Humans and Technology

Web3 Social Networks: The Interweave of Humans and Technology

“Web3” can be defined as an information network emerging from and made possible by new cryptographic techniques. Web 3 promises to enhance our individual agency by removing concentrations of power, but also demands more responsibility from the individual. By definition, if the management of the social network is not centralized,

Team AKASHA: Introducing Andrei Sambra

Team AKASHA: Introducing Andrei Sambra

Hello, everyone! My name is Andrei Sambra ☕️ I started my journey with AKASHA back in October 2018 when I was lucky enough to meet the team in person, as I was visiting Romania that summer. It really felt like we immediately "clicked". 💪 I am currently living in a

Team AKASHA: Introducing Josemaria Nriagu

Team AKASHA: Introducing Josemaria Nriagu

Hi! 👋 Pleased to meet you. My name is Josemaria Nriagu and I’m a Software Engineer at AKASHA. I joined the AKASHA family in early September 2020. I still feel like one of the ‘new’ members of the team, but then I have to remember that at least two or