2017-12-19 The Decentralized Web

On Mastodon, I’ve been exposed to some people that keep talking about a different kind of web, a truly federated infrastructure. That is, instead of relying on “servers” and thus allowing for middlemen providing for connectivity and hosting (and affording surveillance), they aim for a peer-to-peer web, mesh networking, and a simpler infrastructure (not relying on JavaScript to deliver full blown applications to browsers).

Andrew Roach linked me to A Plan to Rescue the Web.

Andrew Roach

A Plan to Rescue the Web

PresGas linked me to a PDF about the Decentralized Web. It discusses a lot of technologies pushing towards the decentralized web (including Mastodon, the federated micro-blogging platform).

PresGas

Decentralized Web

These links themselves lead to even more resources to learn more.

p2p social networking with Rotonde & Beaker also talks about these technologies.

p2p social networking with Rotonde & Beaker

Here is what I have gathered so far:

dat

Beaker Browser

rotonde

Hashbase

hypercord

​#Web

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Steps Towards a Web without The Internet, also by Andrew Roach. Talk about dat and beaker to build a bulletin board system (BBS) that isn’t on the open Internet.

Steps Towards a Web without The Internet

– Alex 2017-12-21 10:41 UTC

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Multiwriter Dat could power the next Web by Aral Balkan. (plinking to DAT Shopping List.) I need to collect some posts of his. Hello Peer-to-Peer Web. Web+.

Multiwriter Dat could power the next Web

DAT Shopping List

Hello Peer-to-Peer Web

Web+

– Alex Schroeder 2018-08-05 07:09 UTC