Big Tech platforms have throttled the reach you get online, while increasing ads, spam, and hate.
Organisations and individuals are looking for safer, better, and friendlier ways to manage their presence and community online.
Channel.org is a non-profit membership service that helps you take ownership of your presence, content and communities on the web.
Harms your reputation with misleading ads and spam.
Drains your social budget with little reward.
Disrupts your reach with changing algorithms.
Serves the narrow interests of their leaders, rather than focusing on what you need.
Profit-drive Big Tech platforms control your content and its reach. Take back control and build community within a network of connection-first social platforms, including Threads & Flipboard. A social web strategy lets you grow your reach, safely, with channel.org.
Profit-drive Big Tech platforms control your content and its reach. Take back control and build community within a network of connection-first social platforms, including Threads & Flipboard. A social web strategy lets you grow your reach, safely, with channel.org.
Controlled and owned by you, your custom channel is a pathway to community. channel.org lets you share your multimedia content with real people across the social web.
We’ll help you get started, but we’ll never take control. Your channel.org account is owned by you and pushes your content to any connected platform on the social web, like Threads or Mastodon.
You can see demo channels matching these different uses on our Explore page.
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A single user broadcast channel.
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A multi-contributor channel, bringing together content from different contributors, wherever they post.
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A curated channel, creating an engaging feed of content from all over the extended social web.
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A multi-platform channel, pulling in content from the organisation’s website and blog, and from the Fediverse, Bluesky, Threads and Nostr.
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A group channel, amplifying posts from its members.
1.
A single user broadcast channel.
2.
A multi-platform channel, pulling in content from the organisation’s website and blog, and from the Fediverse, Bluesky, Threads and Nostr.
3.
A multi-contributor channel, bringing together content from different contributors, wherever they post.
4.
A group channel, amplifying posts from its members.
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A curated channel, creating an engaging feed of content from all over the extended social web.
“We’ve begun building our fediverse presence with the help of Channel.org, so we can own and control the distribution of our high-quality content about the natural world in Australia”
Popular Australian publication
Channel.org is run by the Newsmast Foundation, the UK’s top Fediverse-focused charity. We’re a group of former journalists, scientists and technologists trying to take back control of the social web.
Michael Foster is a former FT and Reuters executive, now focused on improving the social web for organisations and individuals.
Saskia Welch brings her creativity and storytelling to the team, leading our bespoke community curation and helping shape our identity.
Aung Kyaw Phyo has a multitude of experience working with software across desktop, Android and iOS. His direction has shaped our technological advancement.
Artur Ekert is a professor of quantum physics at Merton College, University of Oxford and founding director of CQT.
Jeff Streeter is a former Director of the British Council, and now writer of the English Republic of Letters Substack.
We’re a non-profit with a simple mission: we offer free support to help you begin planning your organisation’s social media strategy in a changing landscape. We can help you claim your own channel.org domain to get started.