Meta-community

Give your community agency over its web layer.

A meta-community is a community layer for a network, movement, domain, ecosystem, or field of practice. It can span many websites while giving members shared context, governance, conduct, identity, AI boundaries, and rewards.

Instead of forcing everyone into one platform, Canopi lets the community define how people enter, how they participate, what norms apply, how AI behaves, and how contributors are recognized for strengthening the Overweb.

What the community gets to decide

Identity and access

Choose Canopi auth, wallet auth, email, custom SSO, or your existing member database. A meta-community can meet people where their identity already lives.

Membership and economics

Decide whether participation is open, invite-only, fee-based, token-gated, reputation-gated, or some combination that fits your community.

AI interaction

Set how AI agents may summarize, recommend, moderate, coach, bridge, and represent community knowledge inside the layer.

Codes of content and conduct

Define norms for discourse, evidence, attribution, moderation, conflict, and repair before the layer scales.

Governance and roles

Create admins, stewards, moderators, contributors, and guests with different powers across rooms, anchors, sites, and streams.

Overweb rewards

Meta-communities that bring contributors, anchors, tags, bridges, and durable knowledge into the Overweb can earn rewards for that contribution.

What a meta-community can be

A research network coordinating interpretation across papers, datasets, videos, and public explainers.

A movement creating shared context across campaign sites, newsletters, livestreams, and policy pages.

A professional community that wants member-only discourse without locking knowledge into one platform.

A domain community defining tags, norms, trusted sources, and AI behavior for a shared field of work.