Belonging Before Identity
summary
Socialtec runs a field experiment in Almen, a 1,200-person Dutch village with centuries of Noaberschap, and builds a volunteering app that converts social interactions into attestations of personhood. Within two months the app reaches 25% adoption and every in-app thank-you becomes a real-world proof that an account maps to a person. The prototype ties community workflows to an identity layer that anticipates zero-knowledge proofs, and the result is working, local self-organization at scale.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Privacy and tech critique
- 1:12Smaller platforms and identities
- 2:17Belonging drives adoption
- 3:39Web3 lacks global adoption
- 5:05Testing belonging in a village
- 7:11Tech in existing communities
- 8:54Personhood via interactions
- 9:36Commons stack for society
- 11:00Communities empowered by tech
- 12:24Funding the vision
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