Influencing the world today is not about creating scale; it’s about developing the conditions that determine how culture is created, distributed and monetized. As the culture wars are now being fought over digital infrastructure, we need to build it on a radically different set of principles to serve our needs. 

For the launch of Nothing Personal, Mozilla Foundation’s new online magazine, we wrote an essay about the people and projects that are building alternative digital infrastructures in what we call the post-naive mindset.

Many of the projects we talk about are ones that we’ve joined and participated in early on: Subvert, the collectively owned bandcamp. Metalabel, the platform for collaboratively releasing creative work. Trust, the community and Berlin-based network of utopian conspirators. Future Art Ecosystems, Serpentine’s project for building 21st century cultural infrastructure. Perfectly Imperfect, the newsletter turned social network for human-led recommendations. And many more.

Influencing the world today is not about creating scale; it’s about developing the conditions that determine how culture is created, distributed and monetized. As the culture wars are now being fought over digital infrastructure, we need to build it on a radically different set of principles to serve our needs. 

For the launch of Nothing Personal, Mozilla Foundation’s new online magazine, we wrote an essay about the people and projects that are building alternative digital infrastructures in what we call the post-naive mindset.

Many of the projects we talk about are ones that we’ve joined and participated in early on: Subvert, the collectively owned bandcamp. Metalabel, the platform for collaboratively releasing creative work. Trust, the community and Berlin-based network of utopian conspirators. Future Art Ecosystems, Serpentine’s project for building 21st century cultural infrastructure. Perfectly Imperfect, the newsletter turned social network for human-led recommendations. And many more.