Jacob Borgeson

Probably the most popular by number of installations is the VBB open source software (Virtual Bulletin Board)

"First, we need to explain the shortcomings of existing earning models. Traditional corporate employment is rapidly becoming outdated as a means for coordinating activity in the Information Age — we already see this in the emergence of alternative forms of earning such as influencers, contractors, creators, gig economy participants, and more. These... See more

Here are the leaders by market share, with a few example brands for each:

There are actually about a dozen platforms designed to fill this need - and they make up about a $2-3B annual market for brand community platforms today. Community-building is nearly as old as the internet, and so much has been developed since the advent of message boards and forums. 

I’d like to keep my family together and raise my boys into adults who are “publicly useful and privately happy.” Anything else is gravy.

A pretty comprehensive, simple, and beautiful explanation of web3 and the technologies that are enabling it with compelling use of data and charts to illustrate why it matters and the potential. 

Their stated mission is to "explore the future of human networks."

"By building a peer-to-peer overlay on top of git, we find not only a performant solution, but one that is better adapted for code collaboration. Issues, comments and reviews become local artifacts that are cryptographically signed and interacted with offline."