Social Fabric
= "a neighborhood-scale knowledge commons organized by domain" [1]
URL = http://social-fabric.us/
Description
Benjamin Life:
"Built on open-source decentralized infrastructure, Social Fabric is constructing a neighborhood-scale knowledge commons organized by domain: resilience, food systems, mesh networking, clean energy, local economy, governance, emergency preparedness, and water systems. Each domain hosts documented, community-maintained protocols, from seed swapping methodologies to mesh network configurations to collective governance frameworks. Underneath this commons sits a trust graph, a relational data layer that makes the accountability and connection between neighbors computationally legible without requiring a centralized authority to manage it. What makes Social Fabric significant in this context is that it treats the protocol library not as a standalone repository but as an integrated layer within living neighborhood infrastructure, one where the people documenting and forking protocols are the same people enacting them in their communities. This is what it looks like when the call for open protocol libraries stops being theoretical and starts becoming operational."