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Small resource on Fediverse, federated networks, mesh networks, distributed web, alternative internet, alternative social media and decentralisation

Mastodon instances

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Software projects

  • Beaker, experimental peer-to-peer Web browser (Hypercore), *2016.
  • Bookwyrm, federated platform for reading and reviewing (Activitypub), *2021. Instances.
  • Conversations, open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android, *2014.
  • Delta Chat, chat app that sends messages via e-mails, encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt
  • Diaspora, self-hosted social networking service (diaspora), *2010.
  • Distributed Press, open source publishing tool for the World Wide Web and DWeb; automates publishing and hosting content to the WWW that it seeds to Hypercore and IPFS, *2021.
  • dokieli, clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions (Solid, Linked Data, ActivityPub), *2015.
  • Epicyon, federated social network suitable for low power systems.
  • Friendica, decentralized social network, formerly Mistpark (diaspora, OStatus, pump.io, ActivityPub), *2010.
  • Funkwhale, decentralised audio platform (ActivityPub), *2019.
  • Hubzilla, communication platform, formerly RedMatrix (Zot, ActivityPub, diaspora, OStatus), *2015. Review.
  • Hypercore/Dat apps
  • IPFS, protocol and p2p network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system, *2015.
  • Mastodon, self-hosted social networking service (ActivityPub), *2016.
  • Matrix apps
  • Misskey, decentralized microblogging service (ActivityPub), *2014.
  • PeerTube, federated video platform powered by ActivityPub and WebTorrent, *2018.
  • PixelFed, image sharing platform (ActivityPub), *2018.
  • Pleroma, social networking software (ActivityPub), *2019.
  • Scuttlebutt, decentralised secure gossip platform (gossip protocol), *2018.
  • Socialhome, federated personal profile with social networking functionality (ActivityPub, diaspora), *2016.
  • Solid apps
  • WriteFreely, open source platform for building a writing space on the web (ActivityPub).
  • YaCy, distributed search engine, *2016.

Protocols: ActivityPub (W3C recommendation, *2018), Solid (*2016), Hypercore (formerly Dat Protocol), Zot (evolved from DFRN, *2015), Matrix (*2014), Pump.io (evolved from OStatus, *2011), Diaspora (*2010), OStatus (formerly OpenMicroBlogging, *2008), XMPP (formerly Jabber, *1999).

More projects and context: Fediverse.party, Wikipedia.

Resources, art projects

Events

2010
2011
  • Federated Social Web Europe, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, 3-5 Jun 2011. Open event on Social Web interoperability, standards and privacy. Supported and co-organised by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and by the EU FP7 PrimeLife project. The local organization was done under the label “d-cent” and by the independent institute PerGlobal.
2012
2013
  • IndieWebCamp, Elemental Technologies, Portland, OR, 22-23 Jun 2013.
2014
2015
  • GETDecentralized! (GET-D), The Red Victorian, 1665 Haight St, San Francisco, 31 Mar-2 Apr 2015. "An evening of conversation, celebration and community-building around new ideas in decentralization." Organised by Joachim Lohkamp. Attended by about fifty participants, incl. Brewster Kahle from the Internet Archive. Video. [7] [8]
  • Radical Networks conference, Integrated Digital Media at Magnet NYU, Brooklyn, NY, 24-25 Oct 2015. Organised by Sarah Grant, Erica Kermani, and Amelia Marzec, in partnership with Eyebeam.
2016
  • Decentralized Web Summit, Internet Archive, San Francisco, 7-9 Jun 2016. Attended by about 350 participants, incl. 80 participants in the Builders Day. Juan Benet demonstrates a fully decentralized web site; Karissa McKelvey presents a browser-based implementation of the DAT protocol.
  • Radical Networks conference, Chem Creative, Brooklyn, NY, 4-6 Nov 2016. Organised by Sarah Grant, Erica Kermani, and Amelia Marzec, in partnership with Eyebeam. Second edition. Exhibition photographs.
2017
  • Radical Networks conference, Chem Creative, Brooklyn, NY, 19-22 Oct 2017. Organised by Sarah Grant and Erica Kermani. Third edition.
2018
  • Peer-to-Peer Web / NY, series of talks, School for Poetic Computation, New York, 26 May 2018. Presented by New Computer Working Group. [9] [10]
  • Radical Networks conference, Spektrum, Berlin, 19-21 Oct 2018. Organised by Sarah Grant and Erica Kermani. Fourth edition.
  • Reclaim the Web, Kop! (Smart/CoopCity), Brussels, 1 Dec 2018. Organised by iMAL.
2019
  • Relearn 2019, Varia, Rotterdam, 7-9 Jun 2019; Hacktiris, Brussels, 21-22 Jun 2019; La Générale, Paris, 6-8 Sep 2019. More.
  • DWeb Camp, Pescadaro, CA, 18-21 Jul 2019. Follow-up to Decentralized Web Summits 2016 & 2018. Attended by 450 participants. Interview. Report. [11]
2020
  • #SummerSchool 2020, 26 Jul-8 Aug 2020. Online, interdisciplinary conference for the Fediverse, informally hosted by the instance Scholar Social. First edition.
  • Dat Conference 2020, online, 30-31 Jul 2020. Virtual peer to peer event about local-first tech and meetup space for those interested in the decentralized web.
2021
  • #SummerSchool 2021, 26 Jul-6 Aug 2021. Online, interdisciplinary conference for the Fediverse, informally hosted by the instance Scholar Social. Second edition.
2022
  • THX, Ozaraine, Basque country, 10-20 Jul 2022.
  • #SummerSchool 2022, 25 Jul-6 Aug 2022. Online, interdisciplinary conference for the Fediverse, informally hosted by the instance Scholar Social. Third edition.
  • DWeb Camp, Camp Navarro, California, 24-28 Aug 2022. Fourth edition.

Publications

  • Relearn, "A Feminist Net/work How-to", in Portable Relearn Archive, Jul 2014. Material from the 2014 edition of Relearn, held at Variable, a collectively run F/LOSS Arts Lab in Brussels.
  • Brewster Kahle, "Locking the Web Open", Internet Archive, 1 Apr 2015, 28 min. Video; talk given at the GETDecentralized unconference, San Francisco.
  • Compost, eds. Mai Sutton et al., since Mar 2021. Magazine about the digital commons.

See also

Internet activism, Free software

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