NCE.DFOS Week 02

Hello everyone. Welcome to Week 02 in NCE.DFOS. This message will lay out the major happenings in this space this week.

The big topic: Expansion

Many of you are in this space because you’re interested in launching your own DFOS. We want you to, too! So when are we going to start allowing that?

In the next week, we're going to gradually begin to invite in pioneer spaces — folks who have reached out or are in our community who we'd love to be among the first groups to really test out what we've made. If that's you and we haven't connected yet, say so in the comments to this post.

To support this, we're going to make a new space for those communities, so we can all talk together and learn from what we're doing, and also to share the bugs and points of improvement that will inevitably arise. Ahead of this, we’ll also be sharing our first draft of community guidelines and our moderation approach, later this week.

Week 01 highlights

• New Creative Era episode 02.10 published: What if you could start your own internet?

• This space came into existence for the first time. You all immediately found some bugs. We started hanging out. Yes!

• More than 230 of us went down the rabbit hole into DFOS after hearing us talk about it on NCE. The pipeline: easter egg -> rabbit hole -> ???

• Robert started an NCE Book Club to read "Domination and the Arts of Resistance" by James C. Scott. A book I constantly referenced on the podcast, and came recommended by Jack Self of the Real Review. Join in the link.

• Many people introduced themselves. The threaded replies found many points of mutual connection. We're doing it, gang!

• The AMA channel is very active. A strong mix of technical, heady, and suspicious/curious. Not surprised.

• Stats this week: 234 members; 777 chats

Week 02 happenings

• Josh and I will record NCE 02.11 tomorrow, picking from questions in the AMA channel. There are so many good ones this will probably spread into multiple episodes. This first AMA episode will publish this Wednesday-ish.

• We’re going to open the second DFOS space, for Artist Corporations, later this week. Suspect we’ll see many of you there.

• We’re releasing Anonymous Creative Futures 002, our annual survey of artist/creator sentiment, this week. This will be published as a joint Metalabel x Artist Corporations release, with discussion happening in the new A-Corp DFOS.

• We’ll share our first draft of community guidelines. Looking to hear your feedback.

• We’ll also be sharing more about our structural and philosophical approach to this space. The AMA questions have been good. Want to find the right format to share more.

• Brandon, Ilya, and Alexey will continue to ship technical improvements and new parts of the product. Coming this week: search and bookmarks. Likely more. Also a whole new underlying chat infrastructure is live as of today. Go Brandon!

What’s on your mind?

What are you thinking about this week? Saturday is Valentine's Day — have you found your DFOS Valentine?

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