Comparison

All of this is TODO. Comparison to existing protocols and projects (just to situate in context, not talk shit obvs)

P2P

• BitTorrent
• IPFS
  • Problems
  • IPLD
  • Overlap
  • Differences
• Dat/Hypercore
  • Holepunch
• Spritely/Goblin
  • References

Social

• ActivityPub
• Secure Scuttlebutt
  • Feeds & Metafeeds
  • References
• Matrix
• AT Protocol/Bluesky
• Nostr
  • DNS identity
  • Petnames
  • Not so good
• XMPP

Linked Data

• SOLID
• Linked Data Fragments
  • Summary
  • Overlap
  • Differences
  • References
• Linked Data Platform
  • Containers
  • Similarities
  • Differences
  • References
• NanoPubs

Data Structures

• ERIS
• DMC

To be categorized

• Agregore

• Arweave

• CAN

• Chord

• Earthstar - https://earthstar-project.org/

• Freenet

• Manyverse

• P2panda - v interesting! https://p2panda.org/

• SAFE

• Storj

• Swarm

  • not interesting, based around coins and smart contracts

  • kademlia routing

  • chunks stored by nodes close in hash space

• Repute.Social

• LinkedTrust.us

Points of comparison

• not append-only

• metadata