Practical Decentralization
The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.
From ZK-first to AT Protocol — our path to DDS | Agora Citizen Network
We've been building Agora — a platform for public deliberation using Polis-style clustering — for a while now. Along the way, we've written about what we think about Nostr, AT Protocol, Polis, Community Notes, and protocol interoperability. Those posts are somewhat outdated now. This one describes w...
Use Protocols, Not Services
The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy-preserving by design. I mean, unless some administrator actively tries to track you, there is no built-in...
attested.network — Proof of Payment for ATProtocol
An open specification for decentralized, cryptographically verifiable proof of payments.
Willow - Home
Peer-to-peer protocols which scale up, down, and sideways. Sychronisable data storage, fine-grained access control, private and efficient synchronisation, and secure data delivery by any means possible.
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | David Álvarez Rosa
This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network. Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …
Decentralized Deliberation Stack (DDS)
A W3C Community Group working draft for an open stack for sovereign, verifiable, interoperable, and resilient deliberation.
AlternativeProto - Decentralized Web Catalog
Discover decentralized alternatives to popular websites and webapps built on the AT Protocol
Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium
A distributed and secure peer to peer social network - Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium
A Model for addressing privacy on ATproto
When I first got involved with Northsky social, we knew we would have to eventually address the elephant in the room. How do we proactively protect a community from outside influences without relying purely on moderation? And more importantly, how do we keep bad actors from simply pulling their data straight from a relay?
ATOM: AT Protocol Over MoQ Transport
This document specifies how the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol can leverage Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT) for efficient data synchronization across decentralized social networks. The AT Protocol's firehose event stream and repository synchronization mechanisms map naturally to MOQT's publish/subscribe model, enabling scalable relay infrastructure, priority-based delivery, and improved resilience for large-scale social data distribution. This specification addresses the challenges of the current WebSocket- based transport and demonstrates how MOQT's relay architecture, group-based caching, and multiplexed streams provide significant benefits for AT Protocol deployments at scale.
AI, Agency and Protocols_ Power and Governance in Open Social Networks.pdf
