Other Internet is an applied research organization. We study and build social technology. Our aim is to create alignment between technology, values, and culture.

Toby, Sam and Laura met at a blockchain unconference in Berlin in mid-2019, where they convened around the idea of brands as consensus mechanisms and began discussing the evolutionary dimensions of socially and technically mediated capital. Since then, they’ve been meeting weekly to explore and write about emerging tendencies in web3 cultures.

These are some of the concepts that they’ve developed together:

• Headless Brands https://otherinter.net/research/headless-brands
• Market-Protocol Fit https://otherinter.net/research/market-protocol-fit
• Squad Wealth https://otherinter.net/research/squad-wealth
• Positive Protocol Externalities https://otherinter.net/research/positive-sum-worlds

As a larger squad, we research the social architecture of online communities, we set protocol agendas and push governance initiatives, we design ambitious experiments and scalable software, we invest in and care for organizations we believe in, we advise and consult with values-aligned projects.

Our website says: “We are committed to a better world, not to one way of getting there.” In this spirit, these are some of the quests that we have been most actively pursuing in the last period:

• Developing tools for squad to squad interaction with Teal Process & Company https://squad-concepts.glitch.me/
• Conducting governance experiments in decentralized financial protocols https://otherinternet.substack.com/p/uniswap-interest-groups
• Exploring digital lore https://otherinter.net/research/lore/
• Delving into the labor issues faced by DAOs today https://otherinter.net/research/pooltogether-offchain-report/
• Running alternative versions of history to summon latent network identities https://34.bienale.si/en/projects/other-internet-toby-shorin-laura-lotti-sam-hart/