Connecting DWeb nodes in Cascadia

The watersheds of the powerful Columbia, Fraser and Snake Rivers define the rich Cascadia Bioregion, a natural geographic region on the Pacific coast bisected by the US-Canada border. The large population centres of Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland share stewardship of this ecological system with the many Indigenous communities that continue to reside on the land.

Now the DWeb community introduces new connections, weaving the region together even tighter. Members of DWeb Vancouver travelled across the border for the relaunch of the Seattle DWeb Node on November 19th, 2025. Seattleite DWebbers, joined by visitors from as far away as Victoria BC and southern Washington state, gathered to hear some short talks, socialize, and make new personal connections at the Internet Development Studio, a cool new hub for creative technology near the famous Pike Place Market.

Nigini Oliviera from Seattle and Chad Kohalyk from Vancouver opened the evening by commenting on the importance of not only local community-building, but also connecting with nearby communities. Build up and link up!

Bryan Newbold from Bluesky gave an update on atproto progress:

David Lücke demonstrated a local-first DWeb Chat app:

Devine Lu Linvega of Hundred Rabbits described how living on sailboat changed his perspective on computing:

Arturo Martinez presented some upcoming work including WebTunnel Bridges from the Tor Project:

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Ronen Tamari shared some new features of SenseNets a tool for collating scientific social media activity across multiple networks for use in “nanopublications”

As the DWeb movement continues to decentralize expect more of these local and regional meetups to happen. Already the Vancouver community is planning events for the new year with the intention of hosting Cascadians (see the calendar below). The DWeb Seattle community will once again be holding regular meetups. And there has been discussion between on the with DWeb Discord in helping get a Portland node stood up and connected to the wider Cascadia network.

If you are in the Cascadia region, or visiting, connect with us!

• DWeb Seattle Meetup
• DWeb Vancouer event calendar
• DWeb Vancouver newsletter

If you are are building out your own regional network let us know in the DWeb Discord!

🙇‍♂️ Big thanks to Tim Reha who at the very last minute quickly put together a film setup with zero prep and then edited together these vids for us. Cheers! 🍻