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Network State & School 2025: Highlights
Welcome to the many new subscribers who joined following the NS Conferenceš. It was incredible to meet so many of you in person and put a face to our online interactions, and many others who I met for the first time. I previously compiled a list of all Network State experiments that made it onto land, including experiments covered in the last two NS conferences (2023-24). This year, I was fortunate to visit the conference in person and was lucky enough to visit the Network School campus and ...
How to Value Emerging Network States
Running some numbers behind the socio-techno-capital of human coordination.
Decentralized Social Media: 15 Years in the Making
A brief history of decentralized social media, and a snapshot of the current landscape.
Chokepoints of the āDecentralizedā Web
The promise of Web3 has always been a more decentralized, user-owned internet - a radical departure from the walled gardens and algorithmic overlords of Web2.
About Parallel Citizen
Parallel Citizen is a publication for those building civilization outside the old coordinates.