Decentralization

Three protocols and a future of the decentralized internet

Hi, I'm Darius Kazemi and I'm CS&S's Mozilla Fellow. Here are some of the things that I've been researching, building, and planning around the decentralized internet. In learning about these three protocols, I now see them fulfilling different, complementary roles.

Decentralization

New funding compensates existing Dat volunteers

Let's make it easier to contribute to Dat.

Decentralization

Shared Infrastructure: A Cooperative Preservation Network for Data

Research and cultural heritage institutions are facing increasing costs to preserve digital objects like scientific data, digital art, and other artifacts. As many institutions move data to cloud services, preservation costs and complexity

Announcement

Demo: A Collaborative Shopping List Built On Dat

We've been busy developing HyperDB, a distributed scalable database for peer-to-peer collaboration. Dat Shopping List is an application that makes grocery shopping fun again! HyperDB will be integrated in Hyperdrive to allow for multi-user collaboration with Dat archives.

Science

Practical Decentralization of Scholarly Data & Resources

It’s time for scholars to ask whether today’s data preservation technologies align with open scholarship’s values of access, preservation, privacy, and transparency.

Decentralization

Dat Privacy Models: Creating Communities of Trust

Privacy on the web is an elusive thing. We often think our data is private only to later learn the company we trusted is using it for something we find unsavory...

Science

Using Dat for automatic file backups

Here's a short tutorial about how to use the dat command line tool, plus a couple other fun utilities we have written, to automate the backup of files in real time from your

Decentralization

The Web of Commons

Decentralization is not just a technological problem, it is also a human one. With a commons approach to the decentralized web, the most ideal approach is guided from where we came. New protocols should be optimizing for science and mutual collaboration rather than optimizing for profit.

Decentralization

Reader Privacy On The P2P Web

Vendor Lock-In The Peer-to-peer Web is a way of thinking about distributing web content over the internet that doesn’t rely on a central point of failure. Failure sometimes means the service disappears

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Key Elements of Distributing Data

The data distribution toolkit has become a mixed bag of tools that require different skill sets and are applied for different purposes. Git, for example, is a tool that works effectively for governing