Social Protocols

The goal of Social Protocols is to enhance collective intelligence. We are working on open algorithms and protocols that benefit large scale human interaction.

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Recent Articles

What Is a Social Protocol? 2024-12-10

by Jonathan Warden

Introduction The rules that determine what gets attention on social platforms are often called “algorithms,” but algorithms are only part of the story. Another way to understand social platforms is as social protocols, or sets of formal and informal rules that communities use to allocate their collective attention.

Projects

Jabble: A collaborative fact-checking Platform: https://jabble.xyz

Global Brain Algorithm: A comment ranking algorithm to fight misinformation.

Quality News: Quality News is a Hacker News client that provides additional data and insights on Hacker News submissions, notably, the upvoteRate metric. See the readme on GitHub for details.