From January to June of 2026, Reddit mods removed 10% of the 2.3 billion posts and comments made on Reddit. 159 million posts and comments were removed as a result of "community-based violations."

The power of community: no one should face PSC alone. Hear from Sarah from PSC Partners Seeking a Cure Canada, who highlights the importance of finding connection, understanding and support within the PSC community — especially for younger patients navigating life with a rare chronic disease. 💬 Her message reminds us that connecting with others who share similar experiences can make a real difference. A strong community provides not only information and support, but also a sense of belonging, encouragement and hope for the future. 🌍 Different countries, shared experiences, one global voice for PSC awareness. #PSCGlobalDay2026# #PSCawareness# #PowerOfCommunity# #YoungPatients# #PatientVoices# #ELPA# European Liver Patients' Association

There are ton of new and old devs building on NEAR in the past couple of weeks. Building itself got easier too, so it's really about what to build and how stand out to get distribution. Few ideas I wanted to share: - AI Tamagochi - use @near_ai to run verifiable inference from prompt encoded onchain, have each character as NFT with some $NEAR attached that pays for it's inference, add gamification with feeding, dressing. Can add all kinds of things on top with battle arena, competitions, etc. - Universal checkout widget - let any merchant/app to add "checkout" button that allows to pay via intents from whatever wallet and chain user has. Offer it to merchants, try to get it into Shopify. - AI encyclopedia with prediction markets - instead of community curation, every fact becomes a perpetual truth seeking market (Augur style). The final pages are generated by AI based on current market understanding. - Private OTC market using 'private deals' from NEAR Intents. Currently there is no way to find counter party unless you already know you are transacting with. Create a more open way to communicate what are deals open and allow people to fill them via NEAR Intents. - "Never get liquidated" - manage positions via NEAR Intents to keep lending and perp positions to maximize interest while not getting liquidated - Event registration where funds get escrowed and let the host to check in guests. If guests have showed up - they split all contributed funds (prev project was called Kickback). Make crypto side events signups reliable again, now across any chain and any asset. - Code review that is fully private - agent that verifiably privately runs code review on private PRs using @near_ai - Company cap table + all instruments around it to raise funds, accept crypto and support banking - Delta neutral anything - take spot + perp controlled via NEAR contract that manages it via NEAR Intents. - Private trading where you sell your viewing keys for people to follow/copy trade. NEAR Intents confidential trading is all private and so one can have a social trading app where people sell "keys" for only select people to see. PnL can be publicly displayed so people can choose to buy-in. - Private medical second opinion - medical frontend that e2e encrypts and sends your data to NEAR AI to get second opinion from AI in guaranteed private way. Use it in combination with crypto and fiat payments. Allow to have custom prompts in NFTs that people can use as a way to get better expertise out of agents. - Private Granola - desktop app that uses @near_ai to do private transcriptions but keeps all your records with you (and encrypted with your key backups). Use $NEAR staking as an alterantive to pay subscriptions. - AI benchmarking with private test sets. Submit harness (or new model in hosted privately in @near_ai) and evaluate on private tests sets and see results that are certified for given model and given hash of test set, without revealing any data. Distribution: - Engage @NEARLegion - Make sure your app supports every wallet via @aurora Intent Connect, so user from any chain can engage with it without bridging/figuring out NEAR - Engage other communities by cross pollinating - Don't forget about Product Hunt & similar product distribution - And ofc X

phase 2 of community listings is live! the final 4 are: • Apple Inc. - NASDAQ: $AAPL • HD Hyundai Electric - KRX: 267260 • Meituan - HKEX: 3690 • Xiaomi - HKEX: 1810 vote for the ticker you want to trade on hudi the winner will be announced next thursday, 17/09

The first half of 2026 has brought unprecedented demand for AI data centers, as well as massive community pushback in the U.S. — with only 14% supporting data center development in their community, according to a new report from commercial real estate giant @JLL, which acts as a global data center advisor and development partner. In a press release announcing the report, the company said the lack of community acceptance had emerged “as the defining challenge for this next phase of growth.” Long before the generative AI boom, data centers had been around for decades, housing the servers and networking equipment that power cloud computing, websites, streaming services, business applications and much of the rest of the internet. But for most of that history, they attracted relatively little public attention. I spoke to Sean Farney, JLL’s vice president of data center strategy, this week. For most of his career, he said, communities tended to welcome data center development. “For folks like me who’ve been doing this a really long time in obscurity, no one knew what we did, no one cared,” he said. “We didn’t hear about resistance, we heard about acceptance.” Farney recalled building a data center outside of Chicago: “I kept 600 union electricians busy for nine months on triple shifts, and put a lot of their kids through college, and put food on a lot of the tables. So we’re used to communities saying, ‘Bring us this tax base, tons of jobs, tons of spend. We get new infrastructure.’” Now, Farney said, that relationship has abruptly changed. Community resistance has become “a bit of a wake-up call for the industry” — and it is beginning to affect where data centers actually get built. “The projects are moving around now a lot more because of this pushback,” he said, calling community resistance “the greatest new factor that we’re seeing” over the past nine to 12 months. “We need to do way better at being transparent and marketing all the benefits of data centers because we haven’t,” he added. “We’ve been really busy building, and we just haven’t spent time on explaining.”

Ansem describes the type of community he wants to build with solana:9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump "What I want to create is a community that's not only trading onchain, but also learning from each other"

On the afternoon of May 19, the Forum on Forging a Strong Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation was held in Nanning, Guangxi, as part of the 2026 #ChinaInternetCivilizationConference#. Themed “Promoting the Socialist Spirit of the Rule of Law to Advance Ethnic Unity and Progress”, the forum aimed to explore how to fully leverage the unique role of the internet. The goal is to make the internet a driving force for ethnic unity and progress, and to build an online civilization that fosters solidarity among all ethnic groups. #ChineseNation#