NCE.DFOS Week 03

Hello everyone. Welcome to Week 03 in NCE.DFOS. This message lays out the major happenings in this space this week.

The big topic: Making space

We've only been in this space together for ten days, but already it feels like longer. We're still in that phase of the party where everyone congregates in the kitchen where they feel "safer," but you can see/feel sub-pockets and new routines emerging.

This experience, combined with rapid improvements in the product, make us excited to begin opening up space creation to all the sickos here in the NCE universe.

If you follow thihttps://app.dfos.com/j/zh3v9z2rfv8z2e63ht9nc8s link, you'll join a new DFOS: Dark Forest Friends. This is a space for space creators. Once you join it, your account will have permission to start DFOS' on its own.

We're excited to see/hear how it goes. See you there :)

Week 02 highlights

• We released Anonymous Creative Futures 2026.

• We posted our first weekly update.

• New Creative Era episode 02.11 published: The two wolves, the first of our two AMA episodes.

• Marta shared this highly recommended overview of practices two communities she runs shares, including really nice ways of sharing work together. Would love for us to try.

• I shared this draft of our approach to Community Guidelines and how we're approaching moderation.

• We went from 234 to 381 members. Similar number of messages to last week: 750.

Week 03 happenings

• Today Brandon is shipping a giant set of improvements, including: Roles/Badges (you can see our first Sicko test badges, which we want to give everyone); Search; Bookmarks; Improved chat functions; file uploads; image lightboxes; and some improvements to the underling protocol layer.

• The second part of our AMA episode will go out on Wednesday. After this episode, there are two more episodes left this season.

• We've made a private IG account for DFOS (irony).

• Will be sharing an expression of the A-Corp project in that DFOS space.

• Much more wisdom shared by and within this group. Can already see the makings of our own publication/resource gestating.

What’s on your mind?

What are you thinking about this week?

Header image by Edgar (once again!)