Ultimately, Spritely is working towards user-facing software with secure-UI ideas applied to them. Here's a mockup!
But it's WAY TOO HARD to build this stuff right now. P2P tech shouldn't be the domain of super-ultra-experts.
With Spritely's new foundations, secure p2p tech is the default.
Here's where the first piece of @spritely@social.coop's tech comes in: Spritely Goblins!
Goblins is a capability-security-by-default distributed programming environment. It supports:
- p2p programming (by default!)
- a time traveling debugger
- a powerful serialization framework
- & much more!
It turns out there's a whole group of people who figured out how to do "secure collaboration" right: the object capability security folks! Spritely builds on their history!
Here's Electric Communities Habitat: P2P, secure 3d virtual worlds, player-run economies, safe untrusted execution. In 1997!
Ultimately, Spritely is working towards user-facing software with secure-UI ideas applied to them. Here's a mockup!
But it's WAY TOO HARD to build this stuff right now. P2P tech shouldn't be the domain of super-ultra-experts.
With Spritely's new foundations, secure p2p tech is the default.
Unfortunately it's not feasible or easy to do everything we'd like in decentralized social networks today... not on the fediverse nor anywhere!
The vision of Spritely is "secure collaboration". Finding how to do it was a four-year research project before the Spritely Institute even launched!
It turns out there's a whole group of people who figured out how to do "secure collaboration" right: the object capability security folks! Spritely builds on their history!
Here's Electric Communities Habitat: P2P, secure 3d virtual worlds, player-run economies, safe untrusted execution. In 1997!
Spritely is built by people who know and understand decentralized (social) networks and their strengths and weaknesses today very well: @tsyesika@mastodon.nu and I, two co-founders (and the first two working on Spritely's engineering) are both co-authors of the ActivityPub spec powering the fediverse!
Unfortunately it's not feasible or easy to do everything we'd like in decentralized social networks today... not on the fediverse nor anywhere!
The vision of Spritely is "secure collaboration". Finding how to do it was a four-year research project before the Spritely Institute even launched!
Before I get any further, I just want to say that the Spritely Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, your donations are tax-deductible in the US!
And we have a few different donor levels... some of them even let you get your name in video game credits! (More on that in a few!)
Spritely is built by people who know and understand decentralized (social) networks and their strengths and weaknesses today very well: @tsyesika@mastodon.nu and I, two co-founders (and the first two working on Spritely's engineering) are both co-authors of the ActivityPub spec powering the fediverse!
At @spritely@social.coop we're building the future of decentralized networking tech (social networks and otherwise)! We just launched a supporter campaign and could really use your help! https://spritely.institute/donate/
I'm also going to talk about why Spritely is important & deserves your support! 🧵
Before I get any further, I just want to say that the Spritely Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, your donations are tax-deductible in the US!
And we have a few different donor levels... some of them even let you get your name in video game credits! (More on that in a few!)
At @spritely@social.coop we're building the future of decentralized networking tech (social networks and otherwise)! We just launched a supporter campaign and could really use your help! https://spritely.institute/donate/
I'm also going to talk about why Spritely is important & deserves your support! 🧵
I laid out a strong critique, but let me end on a call to empathy.
Bluesky is built by good people, and the fediverse is built by good people. Neither reflect the designs I presently would like to see today, but ultimately these are built by humans trying their absolute hardest.
The infrastructure we build reflects our social dynamics, and our social dynamics are made possible by our infrastructure.
This thread has been long, and I have said everything I have to say. Thanks for listening. I hope we can build a good future for each other. 💜
I laid out definitions of "decentralization" and "federation", and Bluesky meets neither, without major rearchitecting or moving the goalposts on those terms, which I cannot accept.
However, "credible exit" is a good goal for Bluesky. Bluesky created that term and it's a good and feasible goal.
I laid out a strong critique, but let me end on a call to empathy.
Bluesky is built by good people, and the fediverse is built by good people. Neither reflect the designs I presently would like to see today, but ultimately these are built by humans trying their absolute hardest.
And here it is. We have reached the final part.
I am not even going to take a tea break. I am not even going to go to the bathroom. I kinda have to, but we are powering through.
We have reached the conclusion of this megathread, and "summary" of an equally long article.
I laid out definitions of "decentralization" and "federation", and Bluesky meets neither, without major rearchitecting or moving the goalposts on those terms, which I cannot accept.
However, "credible exit" is a good goal for Bluesky. Bluesky created that term and it's a good and feasible goal.
Christine Lemmer-Webber