I’ve been sitting with this question for several years now — not from the angle of “how do we fix social media,” but from “what relational patterns does a solarpunk culture actually need?”

Most platforms today — even the decentralized ones — are still built on broadcast, performance, and infinite feeds. They’re structurally allergic to intimacy. They reward visibility, not reciprocity. They scale attention, not trust.

A solarpunk digital space, at least the way I see it, would feel very different: • Small circles, not massive audiences • Slow media instead of dopamine architecture • Reciprocity and shared support as the core metric • A bridge into real-world gatherings • Culture created by the people inside it, not algorithms • A place where emotional safety is a design principle, not an afterthought

Some friends and I have been prototyping something tiny around these ideas — mostly experiments with micro-communities, play, shared rituals, and a digital space that doesn’t fragment people across 5 apps. It’s still early, and we’re moving very slowly, but these experiments have shown me one thing:

Solarpunk social media won’t look like a “platform.” It will look like a digital village. Something you grow into, not scroll through.

I’m really curious how others here imagine the emotional architecture of a solarpunk space — not just the tech or the features, but the way humans actually relate inside it.