NCE.DFOS Week 01: Welcome

Hey everybody. Glad you made it.

We've been talking about dark forests all season on the podcast. So it made sense for this group to be the first we invite into something we've been building: DFOS, the Dark Forest Operating System.

What is this place?

DFOS is a new project from Metalabel. It's an operating system for groups that want to do things together online.

Right now most groups chain together a string of disconnected tools to make their spaces work. Discord for chat. Notion for docs. Venmo for money. None of these designed for how creative groups actually function.

We built DFOS because we take that way of working seriously. So we made one place where a group can talk, think, make decisions, and share resources together.

What's here

DFOS is organized as a shared operating system with different apps:

Chat — Where the day-to-day happens. Threaded replies, multiple rooms, admin-only channels. Option to have channels auto-delete after a set time.

Posts — Longer thoughts from anyone in the space. Chat is ephemeral; posts are permanent. Upvoted posts can go public.

Members — DMs with others in the space.

Treasury — Where shared money lives. Propose projects, pay people, raise funds. (Full functionality coming soon.)

App Store — Coming later: install, create, and launch your own apps.

How we're using it

For the NCE space, we're thinking:

1. AMAs and spaces to ask Josh and me questions
2. Chat where everyone can share links and things we're thinking about
3. Posts to share ideas, memes, things that can also become public if the group wants
4. We also have a new project we'll announce in here soon.

Thanks for listening. And for DFOSing.

Welcome in.