FOSDEM 2026 - Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future

Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (FOSDEM'26)

Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same. How do we make the next generation of protocols ...

Willow - Willow’25

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.

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.

FEP-1042: Peer to Peer Fediverse Identities

Hey folks, we at [Distributed Press](https://distributed.press) have been working on making a bridge between peer to peer or "dweb" protocols and ActivityPub implementations over the past year and wanted to solidify our approach so that others can interoperate. Here's is an initial draft expla...

FOSDEM 2025 - Goblins: The framework for your next project!

Building peer-to-peer decentralised applications remains difficult and error-prone. Most attempts at this either abandon collaborative features entirely or fall back on centralised architectures. The Spritely Institute is working on this challenge by creating (among other things) Goblins, a Guile framework that makes secure, fault-tolerant peer-to-peer applications accessible to developers. These tools are especially valuable for developers building secure collaborative applications that aim to foster healthy online communities. This talk walks you through Goblins’ most powerful features, including the actor model, object capability security, networking, time travel debugging, and persistence.

The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols | Summer of Protocols

DRAFT Version 0.99, March 6th, 2023

A peer to peer community platform built on the AT Protocol

How can open social protocols fail us in 2025 | shazow.net

Let’s compare the possible failure modes of various open social protocols: ActivityPub/Mastodon ATProto/Bluesky Farcaster/Warpcast Some scenarios I’d like to …

Peer-to-Peer Republic

A movement, open republic of humans building peer-to-peer systems that redistribute power and reimagine the internet as a public good, not a product a platform sells.

Decentralized Technology in Practice: An analysis of socio-technical resilience in IPFS

The “Interplanetary File System” (IPFS) refers to a peer-to-peer content addressing protocol that is designed to be “upgradeable, resilient, and more open”. [1]

Dangerous Protocols - Summer of Protocols

Protocols are frequently touted as the liberating alternative to walled technological gardens, but the historical purpose of protocols has always been to simplify decision-making and reduce human agency. How do we reconcile these two narratives? I explore the dangerous side of protocols, and how their ability to drive coordination means they also have

Decentralized Syndication — The Missing Internet Protocol

The Internet is decentralized by design. It came into being not at once, but in parts. New protocols were added on top of previous ones…

A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol - Bluesky

Bluesky’s mission is to drive the evolution from platforms to protocols. The conceptual framework we've adopted for meeting this objective is the "self-authenticating protocol."