About Neighbourhoods

Everyone turns to major platforms when they want to coordinate actions with others. Neighborhoods understand this — many communities need similar basic tools. However, each group has its own style but often inherits the same cultural patterns from these platforms. Consider the influence they hold! Metrics and business models of platforms shape how we communicate. They decide how we find, approach, and prioritize content like feeds, posts, announcements, and media. Neighborhoods is a framework for groupware that allows communities to create and choose custom cultural patterns, all built on peer-to-peer 'Web3' software called Holochain. At the core of each neighborhood is the Social Sensemaker, a specialized software that measures and interprets group metrics, reactions to media, and ways of...