COMPOST is a magazine about the digital commons. We curate art, reflections, and experiments about building the web as a shared resource with active stewards.

We approach COMPOST as a process to metabolize and renew our relationships with the web, to imagine and build interdependent, equitable, and solidarity-based systems of communication and knowledge sharing.

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About This Special Issue

Anti-surveillance stories, reactions, analysis, and incitement built by privacy activists and human rights experts, in collaboration with Strange Horizons as well as the DWeb Camp, DragonCon, and RightsCon communities. The toolkit is now available globally and for free to all creators who want to write more dynamic stories that challenge fascist repression via surveillance tech.

Experiments with Publishing

Issues and Labs

We treat each issue of COMPOST as a lab. During the development of an issue, COMPOST contributors and the core team experiment with the design and governance of a digital commons. For this special issue, we did not work with the authors to co-develop this issue.

A Distributed Press

We want creators to have more control over the means of digital publishing. We do this by building tools and testing approaches that support alternative publications.

Our magazine is published using the Distributed Press, a sister project of COMPOST. It is an open-source publishing tool for publishing to web and DWeb ecosystems including Interplanetary File System and Holepunch. You can learn more about how we approach COMPOST and Distributed Press on our Wiki.

In order to find us on the DWeb, you will need a compatible browser. For example, you can view COMPOST by typing ipns://stopcopaganda.compost.digital into the address bar of the Opera Browser (desktop and mobile) or Brave Browser (desktop). You can also use the Agregore Browser to view COMPOST at both ipns://stopcopaganda.compost.digital and hyper://stopcopaganda.compost.digital. Give it a try!

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Special Issue Contributors

Lia Holland, Christine Phan, Cecilia Ananías Soto, Rich Larson, Christopher R. Muscato, Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff.

Editorial

Lia Holland and mai ishikawa sutton

Publishing Tools

Sutty, Hypha Worker Co-op

Website

mai ishikawa sutton

Creative

Vasjen Katro