For nearly a decade, Mark Qvist built a privacy-first protocol from scratch and gave it away for free. Then he walked away.
Why Meta is retreating from encryption
In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg called privacy the future of social networking. Not anymore
Dan Shipper 📧 on Twitter / X
The smallest technical decisions become humanity's biggest pivots:The same-origin policy—a well-intentioned browser security rule from the 1990s—accidentally created Facebook, Google, and every data monopoly since. It locks your data in silos—and you stayed where your stuff… pic.twitter.com/G87qsuPHxN— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) July 9, 2025
Cypherpunk Retreat
This retreat brings together the top builders and front-line organizers in digital privacy to align on roadmaps, drive technical coordination, and accelerate progress toward a more private and resilient internet. The goal is not just to discuss, but to ship: to create tangible advancements that can be implemented and adopted rapidly.
Future Histories of Other Networks – Lori Emerson
Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook
The Verge’s Casey Newton sat down with Facebook’s CEO to talk drones, AI, virtual reality, and building a bot to make him toast.
The New Internet: Tailscale's Vision for the Future of Connectivity
Tailscale's CEO, Avery Pennarun, explores the future of the internet, discussing the evolution of networking, the issues with today's complex systems, and how Tailscale is simplifying connectivity for developers with a new, more efficient approach. Discover the vision for a New Internet.
The AT Protocol's interesting design - LittleBit
Bluesky's backend was made to be more than a social network
Home - chaum.com
Widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash, David is currently leading xx network, a completely private, quantum-secure decentralized messaging and payment platform. He is also known for other fundamental innovations in cryptography, including privacy technologies such as mix nets and secure voting systems. With a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, he has [...]Read More... from Home
The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web
Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and other Internet pioneers issue a challenge on a day that just might go down in tech history
Social Networking Utopia — Matt
In discussing the network topology of social networks — whether centralized like Facebook or federated like ActivityPub — I think the ult...
The inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the internet, 'fake news,' and why net neutrality is so important
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner sat down with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, for a far-ranging conversation.
Decentralization enables permissionless innovation
I’ve just started reading Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate. The opening chapters are great, narrating Paul Baran’s efforts at RAND to design a nationwide communication network. Baran had one design goal for this network—survivability. Specifically, survivability in the face of nuclear catastrophe.
The one and future internet
The internet has become inextricably entangled into our economies, cultural and social lives. We stand on the brink of the next technological revolution, in which the internet of things transforms ...
we were online
Turn the internet into a living, shared space with real-time traces of people browsing.
Ian Preston (@ianopolous.bsky.social)
Mathematician/particle physicist turned privacy researcher. Java Rockstar #Oxford Building a better web - private, self-sovereign identity, p2p, social - with @peergos.org. Public social media undermines democracy. #covidisairborne #maskswork #cleantheair
