https://home.dfos.com/ The official DFOS of DFOS https://home.dfos.com/post/hacienda-17-8hd6z36fe6reh4katcr7tr post_8hd6z36fe6reh4katcr7tr Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:54:47 GMT This week is about the public side of your space — what shows, where it shows, and the controls for deciding that. (How public should a DFOS be? — Yancey's post from Monday is good companion... https://home.dfos.com/post/how-public-should-a-dfos-be-fha3ec4n3ca6fn6e8nav8v post_fha3ec4n3ca6fn6e8nav8v Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:42:26 GMT The past couple of weeks the DFOS squad has been discussing how public a DFOS space should be allowed to become. We’ve designed DFOS so a space can be as private as its members want. But should every... https://home.dfos.com/post/hacienda-16-7vt649vth6687nedtr7crv post_7vt649vth6687nedtr7crv Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:55:51 GMT Last week the calendar gave your space a rhythm and subscriptions gave it a front door. This week the spacerunner gets a control room. (The dark forests are growing — Yancey on the Metalabel blog... https://home.dfos.com/post/200-recommended-books-and-articles-from-all-of-us-3h4t433fk3e26367tf9f66 post_3h4t433fk3e26367tf9f66 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:13:33 GMT This week in DFOS, more big leaps forward in the product: a new dashboard for Spacerunnners, better email tools, and some significant improvements to the DFOS Shop. Week by week, ship by ship, the... https://home.dfos.com/post/spacekeepers-start-here-8d7k37cnfed3k34ezter2e post_8d7k37cnfed3k34ezter2e Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:51:28 GMT Welcome to Spacekeepers! (formerly Dark Forest Friends). If you're building a space on DFOS, this is your home base. Find resources on spacerunning, ongoing programming, how DFOS spaces work, fellow... https://home.dfos.com/post/hacienda-15-nrr7nfznz729f6ra6ahtn9 post_nrr7nfznz729f6ra6ahtn9 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:16:11 GMT Last week we said we were starting to think less about space and more about time. This week that thinking becomes a thing you can touch: your space now has a calendar. Below is the usual build-side... https://home.dfos.com/post/wayfinding-in-the-forest-8e2n94zcc2an7v7zh93an7 post_8e2n94zcc2an7v7zh93an7 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:32:56 GMT We made the forest. But how do you find your way through it? Looking at DFOS post-Hacienda, we love seeing how much people embrace the desktop metaphor as a way of expressing their vision. (Sol... https://home.dfos.com/post/hacienda-14-z27kckz7r6a64evkh8rrk7 post_z27kckz7r6a64evkh8rrk7 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:50:53 GMT The store is open for business. This week your space becomes a place you can sell from — put up a product, set a price, and the work you've been making becomes something anyone can buy and take home.... https://home.dfos.com/post/nine-thoughts-about-dfos-rraanzcetnanerh7chec8e post_rraanzcetnanerh7chec8e Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:43:08 GMT Hello from festive New York City, where Knicks fever became World Cup fever and now Pride weekend. Don’t know if we’ve ever seen the city party this much all the time. Vibes are high. We love to join... https://home.dfos.com/post/hacienda-13-ec9ntk69k6988k24r3t49e post_ec9ntk69k6988k24r3t49e Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:30:35 GMT This week your desktop starts talking back. The media you put on a space is now something people can gather around — comment on it, see where the conversation is happening, and get pulled back in... https://home.dfos.com/post/hypehouse-days-1-and-2-8n6k6n9fvrtd2htkke78n3 post_8n6k6n9fvrtd2htkke78n3 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:41:59 GMT Hello New Creative friends — Checking in from Hype House in NYC, where we've spent the past two days deep in actual human conversation — a rarity for us! Somehow we're still keeping it together.... https://home.dfos.com/post/open-studio-1-dcfhn7t2ha28v9cce38cfn post_dcfhn7t2ha28v9cce38cfn Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:00:03 GMT Open studio is a space for experiments, for failures. It is a space for half-baked ideas and new directions both dangerous and liberating. This is a space for art as work, art as a journey, art as... https://home.dfos.com/post/dfos-hype-house-ncedfos-weekly-3t287v49c3e4d8z899hdda post_3t287v49c3e4d8z899hdda Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:40:49 GMT Hello friends — Our weekly posting schedule took a hit last week, as we found ourselves underwater in a bunch of different things. Thankfully we're through that particular sticky week, and with... https://home.dfos.com/post/cooperative-futures-dfos-x-london-college-of-fashion-6r2hh72cfhtkz4dzrrck44 post_6r2hh72cfhtkz4dzrrck44 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:18:56 GMT Cross-posted from Dark Forest Friends This semester Metalabel Studio has been running an experiment — what does DFOS look like as infrastructure for a student creative cohort? The test case: BA... https://home.dfos.com/post/hacienda-12-hh9k644nt6tcre6277keh7 post_hh9k644nt6tcre6277keh7 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:14:28 GMT DFOS levels up its media game in a big way this week with private streaming audio and video — plus updates across commerce, groups, notifications, chat, and space applications. Below is the usual... https://home.dfos.com/post/setting-up-your-hacienda-space-4vd8hnk7aea7h64d6f2cde post_4vd8hnk7aea7h64d6f2cde Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:03:18 GMT Hacienda is the new version of DFOS, which rolled out in mid-May 2026. It replaces the old desktop with a more flexible structure built around apps, Groups, and Folders — giving space runners more... https://home.dfos.com/post/hacienda-11-22nfnfa22v6483ra9z94h3 post_22nfnfa22v6483ra9z94h3 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:41:43 GMT It's here — Hacienda 1.1. What follows is the build-side runthrough, picking up from Yancey's On shared private internets. The big structural thing first: the migration out of the pre-app world is... https://home.dfos.com/post/june-forest-meeting-recap-d2t2nrzavz3heahdeaec8a post_d2t2nrzavz3heahdeaec8a Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:46:58 GMT thanks to everyone who joined our first monthly Forest meeting last week. we had a great turnout, people joining from London, Margate, Manchester, Sunderland, Portland, NYC, Atlanta, Singapore,... https://home.dfos.com/post/on-shared-private-internets-ncedfos-weekly-z8zfrttz66ade8tdzkhh7k post_z8zfrttz66ade8tdzkhh7k Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:10:02 GMT Hello friends — Lovely to be speaking with you, as always from the bowels of DFOS HQ, nestled in an unassuming grove of trees in the foothills of an impassable mountain range, its peaks protected by... https://home.dfos.com/post/dfos-data-and-privacy-faqs-8v9rfthv7z27c97cvnhfk2 post_8v9rfthv7z27c97cvnhfk2 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:44:17 GMT We’re building DFOS as infrastructure for shared private internets. Here's what that actually means for your data in plain language. The Short Version When it comes to data and privacy, DFOS is a...