Storage for private, distributed, offline-first applications. Earthstar is a specification and JavaScript library for building connected applications owned and run by their users.

less net work for networks

After signing up for “The Internet Phone Book”, Metalabel has been sending me emails about some “Dark Forest Operating System” project they’ve been working on with no indication whether it’ll be FOSS-friendly in any way. Today, Siiky posted about Willow Protocol.

Which seems to be a thousand times better implementation of that same idea.

Absolute banger of a blog post about replicated and distributed data structures. Much love for this. I’d love to make something of this one day.

After signing up for “The Internet Phone Book”, Metalabel has been sending me emails about some “Dark Forest Operating System” project they’ve been working on with no indication whether it’ll be FOSS-friendly in any way. Today, Siiky posted about Willow Protocol.

Which seems to be a thousand times better implementation of that same idea.

Seamlessly share your clipboard between Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. End-to-end encrypted, decentralized, and completely private.

Holy shit this is the bee’s knees istg. It works out of the box with ssh, any other TCP connection, etc. This is literally tailscale without tailscale.

End-to-end encrypted IPv6 networking to connect worlds

Veilid is an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first, networked application framework. Veilid allows anyone to build a distributed, private app. Veilid gives users the privacy to opt out of data collection and online tracking. Veilid is being built with user experience, privacy, and safety as our top priorities. It is open source and available to everyone to use and build upon.

Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network.

Hacker News commentary on the 25th anniversary of Napster.

The following instructions will help you set up an encrypted mesh network on Raspberry Pi’s. It takes about 15 minutes to set up a node with the Pi 3. Obviously, to have a mesh you will need more than one node.

This post explains how to write a minimal BitTorrent client in Go.

Fully decentralized p2p marketplace using blockchain and bitcoin.