Commona

For community leaders

A calm system for the people who hold communities together.

If you organise a village, run a town association, lead a profession or chair a diaspora group — Commona is built to make your work lighter, more visible and more accountable.

Why a steward uses Commona

Most community leaders we meet are running their work out of a WhatsApp group, a notebook, and a phone that never stops ringing. Commona doesn't replace any of that — it gives the work somewhere to live. A clear list of priorities. A record of who decided what. A pipeline from talking point to project to completed work. Less repetition, more visible progress, a calmer week.

Launching your Circle

  1. 01

    Claim or request the Circle

    Search the directory. If your community is listed, request stewardship. If not, request a new Circle. Verification usually takes 24–72 hours.
  2. 02

    Seed the Welcome thread

    Pin a short message explaining what this Circle is for, who it's for, and the rule you'll all hold (e.g. "Talking points get a proposed solution before they get a fight").
  3. 03

    Invite ten people you'd trust with a key

    Don't bulk-invite. Start with ten members who reliably show up. They will set the tone of the next thousand.
  4. 04

    File three real Talking Points

    Not test posts. Three actual issues your community is already discussing. Concrete first, abstract later.
  5. 05

    Set one priority for the next 30 days

    Pin it. Promote it to a Project if it warrants. Update it weekly. Progress visible to everyone — that's what builds trust.

The weekly rhythm

  • Monday — scan new talking points; triage and respond to anything Under Review.
  • Wednesday — short steward huddle in your Circle (15 minutes is enough).
  • Friday — post the weekly digest to your Circle: what moved, what didn't, what's next.
  • Sunday — a quiet day. The platform is designed to give you one.

Moderation in practice

Stewards moderate with three actions: nudge (private note),hide (post stays, removed from the feed), andremove (logged action, visible to platform admin). Anything sensitive — incitement, ethnic slurs, doxxing — should be escalated to Trust & Safety with one click; we triage in hours, 24/7.

Every moderation action you take is logged in the public audit log. This is the feature stewards tell us they like the most: it ends the "you deleted my post" argument before it starts.

Governance & succession

A Circle should never depend on one person. Commona supports up to seven stewards per Circle, with rotating responsibility. We strongly recommend at least one diaspora steward and one youth steward on every Circle larger than 500 members.

Stewards stand for a renewable 12-month term. Members can call a confidence vote at any time with 5% support. Full governance settings live in your Circle's Governance tab.

Ready to bring your community on? Create your account or talk to our onboarding team for hands-on help.