# The Community Playbook
> A resource for digital organizers — practical guides, toolkits, and strategies to help communities build power, mobilize, and act together online.
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## Pages
- [About The Community Playbook](https://the-community-playbook.org/about.md) - The Community Playbook is an independent publication for people doing the work of digital organizing. Whether you're running a campaign, building community online, or trying to keep your group secure and connected, this is a place to find practical guides, toolkits, and strategies that actually app…
- [Building a movement that can act](https://the-community-playbook.org/building-a-movement-that-can-act.md) - The pro-democracy movement faces a specific set of infrastructure problems: platforms that can be taken away, networks that are resilient but not fast enough to coordinate at scale, and a gap between the number of people who agree with the movement and the number who actively participate. This eigh…

## Posts
- [Your calendar knows more than you think](https://the-community-playbook.org/your-calendar-knows-more-than-you-think.md) - Your calendar is a map of your organizing relationships. A guide to shared group calendars, scheduling tools, and the privacy trade-offs that come with each.
- [Your brain on democracy: the physiology of threat response and why it's so hard to stop](https://the-community-playbook.org/your-brain-on-democracy-the-physiology-of-threat-response-and-why-its-so-hard-to-stop.md) - You know you should step away from the news. You have a list of practices that would help and you're not doing them. This isn't a failure of willpower. It's your nervous system doing exactly what it was built to do — and understanding the machinery changes how you relate to it.
- [Who's listening to your meetings?](https://the-community-playbook.org/whos-listening-to-your-meetings.md) - The platform you meet on is part of your infrastructure. A guide to video conferencing tools for organizers, from routine chapter calls to sensitive strategy sessions.
- [Telling the truth when they control the megaphone](https://the-community-playbook.org/telling-the-truth-when-they-control-the-megaphone.md) - When Venezuela's opposition collected 80% of election tally sheets before the regime could suppress them, they weren't just documenting fraud. They were running a model for narrative infrastructure every movement needs. Here's how to build it.
- [Platform risk and the fediverse: building the infrastructure you can't be locked out of](https://the-community-playbook.org/platform-risk-and-the-fediverse-building-the-infrastructure-you-cant-be-locked-out-of.md) - In December 2025, Meta restricted a Tanzanian activist's Instagram at government order. No hack, no drama -- just a legal process and a compliant platform. The fediverse exists because centralized platforms have owners. Here's what the alternative looks like.
- [The strike card problem: building commitment infrastructure for large-scale action](https://the-community-playbook.org/the-strike-card-problem-building-commitment-infrastructure-for-large-scale-action.md) - There's a meaningful difference between signing a petition and stopping work. Only one requires you to risk something. That difference is the organizing gap every strike card campaign is trying to close.
- [Coordinating without a center](https://the-community-playbook.org/coordinating-without-a-center.md) - Thousands of autonomous local groups, each doing their own thing, aren't a movement — they're a lot of people who agree with each other. Three case studies in what it actually takes to coordinate without a center.
- [Digital security as organizing practice](https://the-community-playbook.org/digital-security-as-organizing-practice.md) - The movement is being watched. This is not paranoia — it is the operating environment. The question facing every organizing group is not whether to take security seriously. It is whether to build it into the movement's DNA before it's needed, or to scramble after something goes wrong.
- [From supporter to organizer: building the commitment pipeline](https://the-community-playbook.org/from-supporter-to-organizer-building-the-commitment-pipeline.md) - Most organizing groups have supporters. Many have activists. Far fewer have developed the organizer layer that makes a movement self-sustaining. Here's how to build the pipeline — and the digital tools that support each transition.
- [The activation problem: how movements respond at speed](https://the-community-playbook.org/the-activation-problem-how-movements-respond-at-speed.md) - The difference between having a network and being able to move it within 48 hours is the most dangerous gap in the current movement landscape. Minnesota closed that gap — but not by accident.
- [The infrastructure you own](https://the-community-playbook.org/the-infrastructure-you-own.md) - Most digital organizing infrastructure is built on rented land. Here's what that means, why it matters more now than it ever has, and what to build before the landlord changes the locks.
- [The activist's digital toolkit: functions first, tools second](https://the-community-playbook.org/the-activists-digital-toolkit-functions-first-tools-second.md) - The pressure to adopt more digital tools is constant. The better question is what you actually need to accomplish. This article builds a function-first framework for thinking about your digital organizing infrastructure — from a single activist to a coalition of millions.
- [What is digital organizing — and why it's the infrastructure democracy needs right now](https://the-community-playbook.org/what-is-digital-organizing-and-why-its-the-infrastructure-democracy-needs-right-now.md) - Authoritarians exploit the gap between the speed of harm and the speed of organized response. Digital organizing is how democratic movements close that gap — but only if the infrastructure exists before it's needed.
- [Getting off Facebook: A practical guide to Bluesky](https://the-community-playbook.org/getting-off-facebook-a-practical-guide-to-bluesky.md) - Bluesky feels like Twitter rebuilt from scratch. It's fast-moving, highly customizable, and has attracted a large, politically engaged user base.
- [The Facebook effect: Why Mastodon feels different — and why it matters for organizers](https://the-community-playbook.org/notes-from-the-editor-the-facebook-effect.md) - If you've recently made the move to Mastodon — or if you're thinking about it — you may have noticed something unexpected: you don't know what to say.
- [Getting off Facebook: A practical guide to Mastodon](https://the-community-playbook.org/getting-off-facebook-a-practical-guide-to-mastodon.md) - This guide is for people who want to leave Facebook — or at least reduce their dependence on it — and want to bring their communities with them. It focuses on Mastodon, one of the two leading alternatives to Facebook and Twitter.
- [AI and chatbots in organizing: Using the tools we have to fight for the future we need](https://the-community-playbook.org/ai-and-chatbots-in-organizing-using-the-tools-we-have-to-fight-for-the-future-we-need.md) - 🔄Editor’s Update — March 7, 2026 Since this article was published, a significant confrontation erupted between the Trump administration and Anthropic. At issue: Anthropic refused to allow Claude to be used for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems. Defense Secretary Hegseth dema…
- [Email recommendations for privacy & security](https://the-community-playbook.org/email-recommendations-for-privacy-security.md) - Your email account unlocks dozens of other services, making your choice of provider one of the most important — and overlooked — privacy decisions you'll make. Here's what to look for and which services actually protect your data.

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