Everyday participation
Music, local news, language, clubs, stories, and ordinary conversation come first. People can follow places and topics or join moderated spaces. A community should be able to use Strata with AI switched off.
Selected work
Illustration study
Community engine
In development Strata .
Strata is an independent community platform for everyday conversation, shared knowledge, and public work. Communities can run their own space, with optional connections to other instances and to Aksara.
Illustration study A community platform for conversation and shared knowledge.
A shared Wiki
Knowledge pages connect places, histories, languages, ecological observations, papers, and datasets. Sources, different accounts, corrections, and revision history stay available. Contributors propose changes; community stewards review them.
Independent communities
Strata is designed for separately administered instances, each with its own members, moderation, storage, and policies. Supported social federation uses ActivityPub. A regional page or tag does not require a separate deployment.
A place for public work
Communities can share projects, reports, events, and approved research artifacts alongside discussion. An Aksara integration can prepare material for review and publication. Private memory and credentials remain inside the originating system.
Reusable beyond Papua
Ruara carries the Papuan context. Strata itself is intended to be reusable by other communities, with their own languages, place names, governance, and optional modules.
A first deployment
Ruara is our first deployment study: a shared public square with community-governed language spaces. Its local context belongs in the deployment, while Strata remains reusable by other communities.
Read about Ruara Where it stands
Next project Living Observatory Strata is in development, with an open-source release intended. Federation and self-hosting need working deployment evidence before they are presented as available services. Ruara is the first planned deployment.