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"We can have a different web, if we want it." Molly White, Citation Needed.

Old social media is stagnating and worse. New social media gives us all a chance to move away from walled gardens and rewild the internet. Making paths and nurturing patches. Going back to something more like the original web, where people interact directly, outside the reach of big tech. Choosing channels, building communities and owning our content. Using the most up to date technology to make this happen.

The Newsmast Foundation is a UK charity dedicated to advancing education, collective knowledge and the provision of information, news and comment on matters of public interest through the promotion of micro-blogging.

Now we’re putting this mission to life by creating Channel.org. A membership organisation onboarding socially committed organisations to new social, with the aim of helping them build communities, spreading content as knowledge for all for good.

We're talking to independent news publishers, non-profits and academic institutions - organisations which can make a difference. And we're working to support online communities built around servers, hashtags or feeds - and offline communities looking for an online presence.

This blog is a place to record how we're going about this.

We've pioneered many of the tools behind Channel.org in our content curation offering, Newsmast.

Knowledge for all for good

Building communities, connections and conversations in the Fediverse and beyond. We’re diverse, democratic and dedicated to building safe, committed communities that change the world. Boosting knowledge sharing by building communities led by people who know their stuff. Helping you learn the news that matters to you directly from those who discovered it. Newsmast is our … Continued

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This blog is written and published by Michael Foster, co-founder of Newsmast and Channel.org.

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