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Karrot

@karrot@fosstodon.org
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Start a group, become a community

Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis.

It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

1505 Followers
16 Following
19 Posts
Joined July 05, 2020
main instance:
https://karrot.world
forum:
https://community.karrot.world
code:
https://codeberg.org/karrot
posts by:
https://bath.social/@nick and https://social.coop/@bruno

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karrot
Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Apr 08, 2026
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Replying to @lambtor@cyberplace.social
@lambtor@cyberplace.social I think it *can* do many coding tasks already (see https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/) - for our situation, I primarily assume the context we're assessing it for is generating code, but I guess some people could imagine what it could do with data. At the moment we are pretty strict on not using external services, or having it optional (e.g. not using google for push notifications, self-hosting email sending, self-host emoji images, etc...)
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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Apr 08, 2026
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Replying to @decibyte@social.data.coop
@decibyte@social.data.coop most of users are not very tech aware and use our hosted instance, although I'd love more self-hosted instances, and that does intersect with the potential instance maintainers you highlight. I wonder if a strict ban on AI policy would, over time, mean we compare less and less favourably with other options... @gotosocial@gts.superseriousbusiness.org
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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Apr 08, 2026
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Replying to @eloquence@social.coop
@eloquence@social.coop ah thanks, I hadn't seen it... I only just started on the task really... It's a bit overwhelming, but some very useful sources. Thanks!
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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Apr 08, 2026
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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We're working on our position on AI.

A starting point was asking everyone in our recent meeting for a few immediate words, more of a gut-based starting point.

They were: positive, something to think about, burn it all, I don't know, no GenAI

Have you got some examples of AI positions/policies to share?

#AI #NoAI

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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Mar 20, 2026
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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We (the Karrot team) are in Gothenburg and have an event on Sunday!

"Community tech: meet the people building alternatives"

Sunday, March 22, 2026 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

https://organisera.org/events/4e496999-00b5-4c03-bdd6-0e872311f6c4

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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Jan 23, 2026
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Replying to @karrot@fosstodon.org

We are steadily building a tool that has many of the things needed for community organising built right in:

  • communication & threads
  • polls
  • co-ordinating of events and activities
  • keep track of group rules & roles and apply sanctions
  • video calling
  • collaborative notepads/docs

And it has a plugin/extension system to further extending functionality (still a bit new...).

Excited to continuing developing it further!

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karrot
Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Jan 23, 2026
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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We did a lot of feature work last year thanks to some @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl support and had a flurry of releases over the last month.

Big new feature are:

- Custom Roles: you can create your own roles, and restrict activities to certain roles, they can be group wide, or for specific places (e.g. you can have a "co-ordinator" role for all places of a certain type)

- Issues and Sanctions: commons-inspired graduated sanctions, e.g. restrict someone if they don't respect the community

https://codeberg.org/karrot/karrot/releases

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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Sep 11, 2025
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Fun fact about Karrot - with every deployment we include the JavaScript bundlesize visualization to show all the piles of js we're making the users download...

See it at https://karrot.world/bundlesize.html

I notice that the big blocks are complex features: maps, video calls, collaborative docs.

At least these are only loaded when you're actually using the feature. And should be cached ever after.

Still, nearly 11mb of JavaScript... (although that includes the translation files too).

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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Aug 13, 2025
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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✨ We have a new and improved guide for self-hosting Karrot! 🥕

It now has 3 approaches documented:
- Co-op Cloud - @coopcloud@social.coop / https://coopcloud.tech
- Docker Compose
- Without docker

(And a description of how we host https://karrot.world - none of the above!)

https://docs.karrot.world/self-host/getting-started

social.coop

Co-op Cloud (@coopcloud@social.coop) - social.coop

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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Dec 29, 2020
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Replying to @karrot@fosstodon.org
@Kevlar@kolektiva.social we don't have the transport logistics bit at all. it hasn't come up yet as a need for any of the current groups. it actually interests me a lot though, and if there was sufficient interest from a few groups it could be a feature to work on, think on a timescale of a few years though... quite a lot to work through to get to that kind of thing. you're very welcome to sign up at https://karrot.world - there is a playground group you can try out the features. 2/2
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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Dec 29, 2020
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Replying to @Kevlar@kolektiva.social
@Kevlar@kolektiva.social how do you co-ordinate who picks up from the store? that's one of the core features of karrot, anyone can sign up for a pickup slot. it has a map feature to see places, which some groups use prefixes to the name to distinguish different types of place (e.g. pickup vs drop off). the other core features are around democratic group management and communication, how do you handle that right now? 1/2
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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Dec 27, 2020
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Replying to @Kevlar@kolektiva.social
@Kevlar@kolektiva.social thanks! At the moment we're centred on groups that pickup food from stores, we recently expanded to include coordinating meetings too and more, but are looking to make it work for mutual aid groups and many more. What kinds of things will you be doing in the group? And how might software help coordinate that? Also, hi to Philadelphia! I had family living there for many years. In Bala Cynwyd.
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karrot
Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Oct 11, 2020
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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A nice article about one of the groups that use Karrot:

"How one Swedish city grew the commons by foodsharing during the pandemic"

https://www.shareable.net/foodsharing-during-the-pandemic-in-swedish-city/

/toot by @nicksellen@social.coop

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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Oct 10, 2020
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

fosstodon.org

FOSS works better when designed together with its users! Especially in the case of Karrot, which strives to be a community-led project to help people organize and make decisions collectively on a voluntary and autonomous basis.

That is why we started a community design process in order to design new governance features!

This is the first iteration of this design process, an adaptation of a design sprint. Any project out there with similar experience?

https://community.foodsaving.world/t/we-are-designing-governance-features-and-we-need-your-input/529

/by @bruno@social.coop

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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Aug 05, 2020
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Replying to @karrot@fosstodon.org
Oops, I forgot the authorship... Toot by social.coop/bruno After all we're not faceless tools and organizations, and also I can be hold accountable for any bulls**t I write on the behalf of others 😄
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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Aug 03, 2020
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

fosstodon.org

Karrot can be used not only to organize food saving, but also bike saving! Bike Kitchens in Gothenburg, Sweden are open DIY bike workshop run by volunteers.

They use Karrot to communicate and coordinate when and who is keeping the workshop open and where they will pick up abandoned bikes that anyone can take home after fixing them in the workshop. If you already have your own bike to fix, just drop by, borrow the tools and get some help if needed!

All 100% non-commercial and volunteer-driven!

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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Jul 20, 2020
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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How to organize and distribute tasks in a community/grassroots project when the number of people and locations are more than just a few?

On Karrot, people who pick up food waste at supermarkets, bakeries and restaurants, can self-assign to do these pickups and everybody in their group can see clearly who's participating, when and where it's taking place.

Here is a screenshot of how we use this feature in our food saving and sharing project in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Toot by social.coop/@bruno

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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Jul 06, 2020
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Replying to @karrot@fosstodon.org
Currently toots are by @nicksellen@social.coop but hopefully I'll lure more of us into this 😎 Me and @bruno@social.coop are active on the project. Looking forward to connecting with more fediverse people about karrot and related stuff! ❤️
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Karrot @karrot@fosstodon.org · Jul 06, 2020
Karrot
@karrot@fosstodon.org

Start a group, become a community Karrot is a free and open-source tool for grassroots initiatives and groups of people that want to coordinate face-to-face activities on a local, autonomous and voluntary basis. It is designed in ways to enable community-building and support a more transparent, democratic and participatory governance of your group.

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Hey :) This is an account for karrot - an open source community organising platform focused on resource saving and sharing.

We're currently being used by a bunch of groups around Europe who save and share food from being wasted (see https://karrot.world/#/groupPreview), but heading towards general community organising uses too.

We're into stuff like participatory design, democratic process, non/less-hierarchical structure.

We're open source (you can use our main instance, or self-host).

#introductions

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