Comparison of decentralized protocols

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Maria Kozinska edited this page Aug 10, 2023 · 3 revisions

Good overview of decentralised social ecosystem, by protocols and topics can be found in bluesky community resources

Here we gather information about different decentralized protocols.

Architectures review

everything centralized (current hospex landscape)
federated (communities somehow cooperate)
fully decentralized, P2P (no server infrastructure whatsoever)
data owned and managed by user, independently from the application that operates on it (Solid)

Protocols

user@host (address linked to the instance)
- ActivityPub
- matrix
address owned by user
- Secure ScuttleButt
- nostr (simplified SSB)
- zot (hashes + aliases for human readability)