A lot moving in the forest this week. Here's what caught our eye.
The big topic: SpaceCamp and a changing platform
This is the week DFOS begins to transfer from our hands to yours.
This is happening at multiple levels: everyone currently in a space now has the ability to create a space of their own (you'll get an email about this later today), and we're launching SpaceCamp as an open cohort where people can go through the process of building a space together. Both efforts come from the same place: we want to see what happens when you start making DFOS yours.
These efforts are getting a major boost this week with two more major product evolutions: Groups 2.0 and Money 1.0.
Groups 2.0
Last week we shipped groups — the ability for spaces to have subgroups within their communities to create more isolated, less noisy conversations. The feature got a lot of usage immediately: 600+ people are already members of groups (25% of private alpha DFOS members!).
Now we're making groups more powerful in several ways:
If a space allows it, members can create groups on their own (no admin required); Groups now have their own admins and owners, allowing for sub-deputizing within a space; Groups have more granular controls over who can post: only let admins post, or just this role, etc These evolutions are all based on initial ways we saw spaces playing with the feature, and allow for more powerful primitives within spaces.
Money 1.0
This week the pieces will really start to come together with the addition of money to DFOS.
Starting later this week, you'll be able to charge for access to a specific group — one-time or as a subscription — with funds shifting into the group's treasury. Splits, transfers, and other treasury components will follow.
The ability for money and groups to interlock, combined with opening up access to founding members, opens up a world of new possibilities.
Of note across the forest
Over in clear.txt, Vinny wrote something striking about where is heading in AI — specifically the parallel between Obliteratus (a tool that surgically removes refusal from AI models) and Google's new Workspace CLI (which gives AI agents access to your entire digital life). His read: the crowd and the crowd are arriving at the same structural endpoint from opposite directions.