Social Network Health

A working group studying social-network health and applying it to distributed communities. The materials below are organized for developers and researchers who want to dig in.

Software

A pattern set for building Personal Network Applications (PNAs) — user-owned apps that manage local relationship data outside of SaaS systems. PNAs operate on private local data and on data you choose to share, with strong contracts so users understand and control both their applications and their data.

Choir protocol

idea stage

A forward-looking protocol that lets PNAs share anonymized communication statistics. Users control local AIs that read across their PNAs and other local apps to collect stats and survey responses, producing actionable insights for a community to maintain its own health — without centralizing private data anywhere.

Research & materials

SNH GPT — Researcher

openai gpt · live

A custom GPT grounded in hundreds of papers and articles on social-network health, with a focus on remote and distributed teams. Useful when you want a literature-aware answer fast, with citations to dig into.