Decentralized/federated services

https://radicle.xyz/towards-decentralized-code-collaboration.html

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges

https://github.com/steve-vincent/awesome-decentralized

https://ipfs.io/#why

https://github.com/kgryte/awesome-peer-to-peer

https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs#readme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC

WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is a free, open-source project that provides web browsers and mobile applications with real-time communication (RTC) via simple application programming interfaces (APIs). It allows audio and video communication to work inside web pages by allowing direct peer-to-peer communication

https://lobste.rs/s/ipc2wb/earthstar_offline_first_distributed

@TheMagic_Ian: Stop using fake-secure, or insecure video conferencing apps like Zoom, Skype, Duo, HouseParty,  Facebook Messenger, Slack, Teams! Consider Jitsi or Matrix clients like Riot.

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk
ok, interesting, but that's again kind of reinventing new standard?

https://twitter.com/wwwjim/status/1321940199769698304

@wwwjim: You should be able to talk to peers without being online.
You should be able to surf a web without being online.
Syncing data from a website as a choice.
Not a service, a tool.
You tell websites what metadata you're willing to provide.
You are your own ACL.

https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22333994

slightwinder 12 days ago [-]
People want both. Big world and small tribes. People are constantly building new community everywhere for non-technical reasons, even if similar communitys already exist. Why do you think they do that?
Small tribes have better control and more trust. Big crowds are lacking this for the individuals.

https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a-future-of-the-decentralized-internet/

https://twitter.com/backus/status/1039701785789620224

How to they perform against each other?

https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/6i2erz/ysk_that_google_tracks_everywhere_you_go_with/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_architecture

https://homehack.nl/activitypub-the-secret-weapon-of-the-fediverse

https://dat.foundation

dat:// — a peer-to-peer protocol
Community-driven project for distributed data synchronization

Automerge is a library of data structures for building collaborative applications in JavaScript.

https://twitter.com/muneeb/status/1155524704540737537
some 'decentralised github' projects

@BuzzFeedNews: NEW: Amazon is booting Parler off AWS, its web hosting service, knocking the pro-Trump social network offline until it finds a new host. https://t.co/zdR68ASJM2

The hash after "peer identity: <HASH>" is your node’s ID and will be DIFFERENT from the one shown in the above output. Other nodes on the network use it to find and connect to you. You can run ipfs id at any time to get it again if you need it.

Syncthing has a filesystem abstraction, so if you care strongly, and have the skills (given you are a developer), knock yourself out and add a blockchain based singing dancing filesystem.

This might be a good moment to highlight how https://delta.chat innovates email. Instead of walled garden it introduces overly protocol improving security of existing email infrastructure and provides alternative interaction model.

https://lobste.rs/s/la8hpt/decentralized_web_primer_dat#c_kxmozz

Does anybody know of a good article comparing dat, ipfs, and scuttlebutt? and optionally any other contenders? Including practical aspects, such as

Utilizing digital signatures, peer-to-peer networks, and a content-surfacing algorithm designed to reward publishers who find common ground, Satellite is a new take on what a social platform can be.

To those of you pushing for ActivityPub:
Webber's trashed it (the initial author) and is working on a way to mitigate the problems of it by implementing incompatible changes, the biggest piece of software claiming to implement it doesn't even implement it (Mastodon), the only piece of software that stays semi-faithful is full of devs who hate it (Pleroma).
AP is completely broken for anything but publicly-scoped content, relying on a lot of trust for every party involved. This gets broken frequently, and has had consequences so far on networks implementing it (like half of them are incompatible implementations, so I think it's completely fine to say "networks").
The specification itself is far too ambiguous. Here's a post by a maintainer of Diaspora explaining this part further: https://schub.io/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to-rule-them-all.html
So let's assume you can get Twitter to implement ActivityPub perfectly to-spec. Great! It doesn't work with literally any pre-existing ActivityPub software, and users' DMs and are more or less public, with users' private accounts literally being public.
I use AP daily, and while it's fine for technical users with a reasonable understanding that anything they post is public, putting naive users' data at risk has never and will never be acceptable; pushing AP will harm everyone.

Projects

need to explore

https://sparktoro.com/blog/in-2020-two-thirds-of-google-searches-ended-without-a-click/