Hypha collaborator @mai.bsky.social wrote about how DWeb Camp Cascadia went! (Spoiler: it was great)

This Monday was #InternationalDayOfDemocracy, and the Canadian Democracy Delegation was launched, a network working to strengthen democracy. "Pluralism is not a fixed achievement - it’s a constant practice that both strengthens democracy and forces us to face its hardest tensions." buff.ly/eqQFTG5

🚨Publication alert! Learn about the first decentralized, p2p mobile backend we built w/ @hypha.coop in our white paper. Why? 🌍Distributed Storage. 🤝Community-Run: by us, for us. 🧱Redundancy, by design. 🫶🏼More autonomy & integrity. 🙏w/ the support of @ffdweb.org www.open-archive.org/news/oa-hyph...

@makeworld.space is presenting go-dasl at this event today! github.com/hyphacoop/go...

Hypha member @charlebois.info participated in the Global Dialogues Challenge by @cip.org this summer -- a challenge to build a creative project atop a dataset of opinions on AI.

“We’re considering what a cooperative values-driven AI would look like... We want to explore what values mean in practice” - Hypha member @andia.bsky.social

Did you know Hypha has a newsletter? Sign up to get our upcoming issue in your inbox, as well as future blog posts! (Or paste the link into your feed reader, we won't stop you 😄)

"No matter how confident we are in our vision of reality, we don't know what we're missing until someone else points it out." From Nadia Asparouhova's new book "Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading." What are we missing by following all the bright shiny things? buff.ly/aI7mPfE

A Go reference library for DASL is in the works! Please try out our early releases and let us know what you think. Thank you @ipfs.tech for funding this! github.com/hyphacoop/go...

Love this piece by Humphrey Obuobi about the various and unsung utility of telephone poles. Infrastructure FTW buff.ly/LAn7JBI

Hypha members are working alongside @iame.li‬ and ‪@iroh.computer on Streamplace. More here on what we're building and how it'll work buff.ly/xqpYeZ8

We're excited about sparking new ideas + connections (see what we did there, heh) at the Civic Spark conference, starting tomorrow. Hard to believe that CivicTech TO is 10 years old! buff.ly/hrkV5GF

ICYMI, @makeworld.space's post on our DASL work. Thanks for the support IPFS Foundation!

in the latest issue of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social, i wrote about how working class musicians are (still) bearing the brunt of COVID-19, more than five years into this pandemic. newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/c...

From the fine folks at @hypha.coop: "Our new CAR Content Locator solves the challenge of tracking individual files in large archives across Filecoin and IPFS networks." dispatch.starlinglab.org/p/finding-yo...

We've recently wrapped an IPFS Implementation Grant. Read about our DASL testing and a big thanks to the funders for making this work happen.

The final report from Project Liberty on the potential of mutualised data and data coops is now out. A must-read if you're interested in practical ideas for how co-ops can contribute to the Fair Data Economy (plus Hypha members contributed to the report!)

"The median lifespan of a web page is only 2.3 years". How do we protect digital records that we care about? Saving the Story: Preserving Journalism in the Age of Digital Decay | Filecoin Foundation

Here's to a wonderful time at #DWebCampCascadia for everyone attending! dwebyvr.org/camp/

The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives has put together an Immigrant Support Resource Hub, also available in Spanish: buff.ly/VUHtNlT #cooperatives #immigrants #inmigrantes

Break room convos: fungi droids and poetry! Straight from our water-coolest channel, wonder at the intersection of mushrooms and technology buff.ly/NEd3nUi

How did we get from big zip files containing archival data to cryptographically verifiable evidence? Let friend of Hypha Basile Simon walk you through verifiable archival tech buff.ly/r7EGMMx

The cultural memory lab supports decentralized archival for libraries and cultural institutions. You, too, can run your own decentralized archive! Learn how to save culture for posterity by uploading public collections to IPFS: buff.ly/gXzE4J2

You are programmed to trust computer programs! Deprogram yourself: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

What if your bank, barista, and browser all ran on co-operation? Our latest newsletter dreams big, then wakes up in a world already halfway there. Read Beyond the Dripline: newsletter.hypha.coop/psst-your-co...

Hypha is at ICA CCR Global Research Conference this week in Montréal. On Thursday, we will be presenting our research on governance innovation in cooperatives by focusing on co-created tools and processes. Come say hi and talk intercooperation! Visit icaccr2025.org for more information

JUST RELEASED: In collaboration with @rightscon.org @getdweb.net @strangehorizons.bsky.social @dragoncon.org & @compost.bsky.social: a new resource has emerged for storytellers to clap back at encroaching fascism: stopcopaganda.compost.digital

We cleaned up memory usage and got 35% more transactions per second. Are we a credit card yet?

COMPOST's latest issue is out now!

1RG member @wxs.ca on his complicated relationship with tech, returning to the soul of interest of a mathematical and technical orientation towards the world, and the early days of 1RG. Hear more from Xavier in our first Member Spotlight: words.1rg.space/member-spotl...

DWeb Camp is coming to the Pacific North West this summer! Aug 8-10 Salt Spring Island, BC, 🇨🇦 dwebyvr.org/camp/

As part of @metagov.bsky.social's Interop Program, Hypha built an "excellently documented" 😄 governance dashboard. metagov.substack.com/p/interop1-b...

That's us! 😁

If you're interested in CID, IPLD, or DASL interoperability, check out this nice new testing suite & dashboard! Screenshot of testing results dashboard: hyphacoop.github.io/dasl-testing/ Cole Anthony Capilongo from @hypha.coop will be presenting this at CID Congress #3 on Wed 6/25: lu.ma/ofjr7mgd

In their latest blog post, Hypha collaborator Starling Lab unpacks 3D reconstruction technology and how to keep it authentic: dispatch.starlinglab.org/p/exploring-...

Brazil is trying out a digital wallet that lets citizen financially benefit from their data. Would you want to use something like this? We've seen more conversation recently about data trusts and data co-op and their use case for this type of thing restofworld.org/2025/brazil-...

Hypha is representing at the Architecture Lobby Toronto's Building Alternative Systems event tomorrow. In-person tickets are sold out, but you can still join online www.eventbrite.ca/e/building-a...

Timely message, interesting project (given the state of the internet on this particular Thursday afternoon).

The Canadian Workers Cooperative Federation is looking for presenters for their 2025 conference. There are just a few days to reply. #cooperatives #canada

We're excited to present this #governance research at the ICA CCR conference in Montreal in a few weeks icaccr2025.org

The work Camille Acey is doing with The Wind Down is really necessary - especially in a culture that is so focused on novelty and newness. Take a look at these beautiful cards from the Tending to Endings project: www.wind-down.org/community-of...

📣 Just published! Our new anthology reframes the question of trust and technology away from whether a particular technology is trustworthy and toward how trust shapes institutions, bodies, and knowledge. 1/5 datasociety.net/library/trus...

Would you like to support co-op summer camps in Canada? The Co-op Camp Challenge will help you do just that!

We’re putting on a conference! Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025 civic-spark.com Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside. Help change that. 🧵

Projects end, data lives. Join us June 19 at the Practices of Composting and Hospicing Community gathering featuring Distributed Press. We’ll explore resilient ways to publish and preserve content beyond platforms with tools that support autonomy. https://lu.ma/ozkv3f7k

100+ websites are now published on the #DWeb with @dwebpress.bsky.social! Congrats! 🎉 Join the endeavor towards making the Web beautiful again — open, uncensorable, and free — just like it used to be 🌻 👉 Explore the DWeb here (Browse via ipfs:// or hyper:// on supported browsers)

Happening tomorrow! If you're curious about tech cooperatives, join us for a chat with Lichen Co-op and the Ontario Co-operative Association www.ontario.coop/events#!even...

Upcoming webinar: Co-ops and the future of technology May 6, 2025 | 12-1:30PM EDT | Virtual Learn how co-ops are innovating with community-driven approaches. Register: www.ontario.coop/eve...

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

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