alternative-internet

Great initiative! Note Re-Decentralise from 10 years ago with few hundred projects: https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet/blob/... This specific format includes details to see which projects are really active. Number of commits, lines of code, unique developers, and age.

I think that we are about to see a new strain of F/LOSS motivations and advocacy emerge, centered on human rights and political freedom, anti-surveilance, privacy, resilience, and so on. On one level I expect it to continue the "redecentralize the web"[0][1][2] movement from a few years ago, but sideline the mostly cryptocurrency focused aspects of "web3"[3] in favor of the "fediverse"[4][5][6] and "local first software"[7]. [0] https://redecentralize.org/ [1] https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web... [2] https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet [3] https://medium.com/@shevski/how-decentralised-are-you-a6539e... [4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse [5] https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-the-fediverse-and-can-it-d... [6] https://thenewstack.io/why-developers-should-experiment-with... [7] https://

Wow, you have some really selective reading if those are the only apps you saw. awesome-dapps is the smallest list, check out the ones below since you seemed to miss them: https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet

> That's kind of cool, if unlikely to be monetizable. That's not a bad thing, but it isn't true anyway, you literally login with your wallet. Virtual currencies are banned on Stripe, PayPal etc. MMOs are how I got into crypto in the first place. > I am genuinely curious on useful applications. I was sharing "awesome" lists related to "web3", not a list of apps to support some argument you want to have about "energy use" or "51% attacks". Since this is a forum that has developers on it, a list of resources and roadmap for developers interested in getting started in web3 is useful, is it not? And yes, awesome lists are "link dumps", nice connotation twist. Here's more geared towards your "genuine curiosity" of web3 apps: https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet https://githu

I was reading their list of technology (https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet) and I think book looks really good, it's solid time-tested technology and I can't believe I'd never seen it in the 'alternative-internet' scene.

Some links that might be useful in this context: https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

You're welcome :) These might also be of interest: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet

Yes, though the extent to which this is feasible is limited by hardware, commerce, and law. Even now, there exist alternative protocols and communities of varying scope for every part of our de facto stack (https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet). Certainly creating an alternative infrastructure poses the biggest challenge, but GuiFi, Freifunk, Ninux and others have met that, and then some. One project not mentioned in the above link is RINA (https://csr.bu.edu/rina/). According to RINA, the very notion of an "alternative Internet" makes no sense for two reasons: (1) the Internet as we know it is not actually an Inter-net so much as a single, flat network that we accrete; (2) under the RINA model, every network could be considered "alternative," and in almost a Platonic sense, RINA treats every network and every connection

> Apart from implementation details of hardware platforms and runtimes The platform described to share all this knowledge and code is beyond what humanity can build today. The manifesto described that we share "All cells exist in a single, globally shared hierarchy". The trust problem has many forms, from trusted medical info on Wikipedia, Facebook fake news filtering, to open Github code with hidden backdoors. See a list of 100+ projects that are struggling with trust and full decentralisation: https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet

I've seen lots of potentially usable p2p CDN ideas, from storing data in each visitors browser & using them to serve other visitors said static content, to projects like IPFS where you can have a distributed website. The ultimate problems are static asset storage & distribution, DNS (how'd you make a fault tolerant, censorship resistant DNS solution that is updatable in nearly real time), and any database component that a site may need. Most of these are solved issues[1], but it breaks down to site operators don't want to put in the extra effort or risk (what if a page has assets not load, or worse, bad assets are loaded), and the apathy of the average user prevents a web of trust or installation of any extra software from occurring unless it is drop dead simple and requires zero maintenance. As soon as someone can bundle up these technol