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.

If you like what we’re doing, please consider becoming a subscriber, contributing money (or crypto through Gitcoin or directly to compostmag.eth).

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. From January to May 2023, our Issue Three cohort has been thinking about creative collaboration, collectively supporting livelihoods, and growing our community sustainably.

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. We are also working on support for distributed social messages using ActivityPub. 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://three.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://three.compost.digital and hyper://three.compost.digital. Give it a try!

Masthead

Issue Three Contributors

Alexandra Kumala, Chantal Makumbo Onyango, Dolly Church, Eamon Foreman, Elinor, Jacob Sujin Kuppermann, Jayashree Kurup, Jens Kimmel, lake, Niall Tessier-Lavigne, Olu Niyi-Awosusi, Portal Sem Porteiras, Shane Finan.

Editorial

Lead Editor: mai ishikawa sutton
Editors: Tal Milovina

Publishing Tools

Sutty, Benedict Lau, Elon Li, Yurko

Website

Vincent Charlebois, Sutty

Creative

lake, Hanami Sutton (Made By Super), Vincent Charlebois