AI systems are consuming the world's content without compensating its creators. This session explores data streaming as a new paradigm — where content flows to AI in real time, with built-in rights management, usage tracking, and fair compensation — and asks what it would take to make this infrastructure decentralized, sovereign, and governed by the communities it serves.

The DWeb community has been out in the world, trying things. Some are working. Others… not so much.

This choose-your-own-adventure session will start with brief intros to two workshops focused on patterns that work:

• 4 Key Elements for Effective Community Governance Organizations
• Entanglement by Design

Followed by intros to two workshops focused on how things go wrong:

• Anti-patterns of Exit to Community in Web3
• Wins, Wreckage, and Wisdom: How Projects Survive (and Why They Don’t)

We will then all gather back together for a FishBowl session (a lively and participatory rotating panel discussion) to share noticings, ahas and inspirations.

In this talk we explore why the dominant “Network State” model is narrowing the design space for networked sovereignty — and introduce Network Nations as a democratic, commons-grounded alternative built on three practical mechanisms: functional sovereignty, commons governance, and entanglement — so distributed communities can actually sustain themselves, steward shared resources, and govern across distance.