Darcy is going to be the new open social platform. Because we all deserve the best social media experience we can get: Safe, secure, private where we need it, public where we want to. It’s Social, done proper. To achieve this, we will provide the tools for everyone to run their own federated social media instance […]
Social Media should be better: Not a way to manipulate you into viewing ads, but to share important moments with people of your choosing. To be able to do so, there should be a well-researched interaction model that isn’t focused on driving ad impressions that has a beautiful and accessible interface. It should be well-moderated, […]
Christian Buggedei founded Darcy and has worked for 20 years in IT, as SysAdmin, Consultant, and Department Head with a seat on the Management Board. He has experience with large scale projects in the private and public sector and a wide range of topics from service management, virtualisation, identity and security, and later product management […]
Darcy will use a system that has come to be known as “Federation”. That means that while every installed server is a small social network of its own, all of these servers can talk with each other. Think about email: Even though people can use wildly different email services, they all can send each others […]
Offline communities rely on support workers, first responders, safety enforcement and so on. As online communities grow, we need to think of ways to structure an equivalent human support system that functions transparently, and outside corporate monopoly. But this isn’t easy to do. If you moderate a global social network, you have to take into […]