As groups scale across time zones and beyond the size that can easily jam together in a cozy Zoom room, asynchronous coordination becomes essential for driving effective collective action.
All such coordination mechanisms are forms of stigmergy: indirect communication between agents mediated by marks they leave in their environment. Everywhere you find collective intelligence, you find stigmergy: from ant pheromone trails to the “digital pheromone trails” left by humans, such as likes, upvotes and posts.
Communities, such as DAOs and other distributed orgs rely on a multitude of apps for communication (Discord, Slack, etc), knowledge management and more. But these apps are siloed, which disrupts stigmergy: a like on Twitter is stuck on Twitter and doesn’t easily transfer to other apps.
Furthermore, reactions in apps like Discord or Slack are inert, they don’t do anything. Sure, lots of reactions on a Discord message is some kind of signal, but a Discord server may have dozens of channels with hundreds of reactions; impossible to keep track of with out some kind of help.
Enter StigFlow; think of automation tools like Zapier, but for collective sensemaking. StigFlow brings your reactions to life and bridges across apps, by enabling you to configure a variety of automation flows which are triggered by reactions (we call them stigflows).
Setup StigFlow in your Discord server to start leveraging collective intelligence in your community:
⚙️ Configure StigBot to listen to your channels and roles of choice
🔺 When message reactions pass defined thresholds…
↪️ StigBot will route the message to a selected target, such as an Airtable or Notion database.
📔 Setup different reactions to mean different things, like important agenda item 🗓️ or an interesting thread 💡
🌱Collective curate a public community knowledge garden tracking useful resources like links and discussions to share with the outside world
📤 Internal flows can be used for surfacing important content out of your Discord server, such as tasks, bounties, agenda items, events, etc.