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Awesome Radical Decentralization

Raison d'Etre

This is a resource linking to liberatory decent(tralized) projects, communities, organizations, and resources. It is intended to foster a postcapitalist society.

Table of Contents

Contributing

Everyone is encouraged to submit Pull Requests to improve this resource or file an Issue for meta-discussion.

Hosting

Centralized

Decentralized

  • git-ssb: ssb://%kbyncb8wOcGLjeDCKp7fxgvje15lC44gLZKGLfmtojQ=.sha256

Roadmap

  • Create contributing guidelines with clear definitions for radical and decentralized.
  • Prepare a meta-file to create a book from the resource list trough pandoc.
  • Improve information and presentation.
  • Improve bibliographical information.

Projects

Decentralized applications

FileSharing

  • OnionShare
    OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size.

Hosting

  • Beaker
    Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it.

  • Freenet
    Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralised to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in "darknet" mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very difficult to detect.

  • TickTack
    A blog publishing app for long-form articles. Also has private messaging integrated.

  • Patchbay
    The goal is to make a client developers love - it comes with social views, as well as chess, book reviews, and some git interface.

  • Patchwork
    A decentralized messaging and sharing app built using patchcore. The goal is to make a standalone, easy to install, "social" view into the SSB world.

VPN Services

Developer Tools

  • git-ssb
    A totally decent git interface. Familiar interface for raising issues, forking, opening pull requests. News about projects of friends, or people you follow.

Industry

General

  • Open Source Ecology
    We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.

Houses & Buildings

  • Open Building Institute
    Open source, collaborative and distributed system for low cost and rapidly-built structures that are modular, ecological, and energy efficient.

  • WikiHouse
    WikiHouse is an open source project to reinvent the way we make homes.

Food

  • FarmBot
    Humanity's open-source automated precision farming machine.

  • OpenAg
    The MIT Media Lab Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg) is on a mission to create healthier, more engaging, and more inventive future food systems. We believe the precursor to a healthier and more sustainable food system will be the creation of an open-source ecosystem of technologies that enable and promote transparency, networked experimentation, education, and hyper-local production.

Manufacturing

  • Lulzbot
    LulzBot is a product line of Aleph Objects, Inc., a Free Software, Libre Innovation, and Open Source Hardware company. Aleph Objects was founded in January 2011 and headquartered in Loveland, Colorado, USA, where we develop, manufacture, and support our products.

Mobility

Infrastructure

Application Protocols

  • BitMessage
    Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers.

  • BitTorrent
    BitTorrent gives you the same freedom to publish previously enjoyed by only a select few with special equipment and lots of money. ("Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one" — journalist A.J. Liebling.)

  • WebTorrent
    WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser. It's easy to get started!

  • Dat
    Dat is a nonprofit-backed data sharing protocol for applications of the future.

  • GNUNet
    GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.

  • I2P
    I2P is an anonymous network, exposing a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send messages to each other. The network itself is strictly message based (a la IP), but there is a library available to allow reliable streaming communication on top of it (a la TCP).

  • IPFS
    A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

  • Solid
    Solid is an exciting new project led by Prof. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT. The project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.

  • Secure Scuttlebutt
    a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform

  • The Onion Router
    Anonymity Online: Protect your privacy. Defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis.

Communications

  • Briar
    Darknet social network. Secure messaging Peer-to-peer encrypted.

  • movim
    Decentralized social network, open source.

  • Tor network
    An encrypted network using onion protocol.

Mesh Networking

  • CJDNS An encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing.

Communities

North America

USA

Oregon
  • Portland Assembly
    We’re building resilient networks – block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood.

Organizations

  • Center for a Stateless Society
    A Left Market Anarchist Think Tank & Media Center

  • Institute for Social Ecology
    The Institute for Social Ecology has been a pioneer in the exploration of ecological approaches to food production, alternative technologies, and urban design, and has played an essential, catalytic role in movements to challenge nuclear power, global injustices and unsustainable biotechnologies, while building participatory, community-based alternatives. The Institute strives to be an agent of social transformation, demonstrating the skills, ideas and relationships that can nurture vibrant, self-governed, healthy communities.

  • Institute of Network Cultures
    The Institute of Network Cultures (INC) analyzes and shapes the terrain of network cultures through events, publications, and online dialogue. Our projects evolve around digital publishing, alternative revenue models, online video and design, digital counter culture and much more.

  • P2P Foundation
    Since 2005, the P2P Foundation has been researching, cataloging and advocating for the potential of P2P and Commons-based approaches to societal and consciousness change.

Resources

Journals / Magazines / Periodicals / Podcasts

  • General Intellect Unit
    Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists. Examining the intersection of Technology, (Left) Politics and Philosophy

  • Logic Magazine
    We are a print magazine about technology that publishes three times per year, with a small digital footprint. Want to know more? Read our manifesto.

Articles / Essays

Accelerationism

Social Anarchism

Solarpunk

Nonfiction Books

Accelerationism

  • Srnicek, Nick, and Alex Williams. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work. Verso, 2016.

Capitalism

Cooperativism

Communalism

Social Anarchism

  • Bookchin, Murray. Post-scarcity Anarchism. Berkeley: Ramparts Press, 1971.
  • Bookchin, Murray. The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy. Palo Alto: Cheshire Books, 1982.
  • Bookchin, Murray. Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm. Edinburgh: AK Press, 1995.

Fiction Books

  • Doctorow, Cory. Walkaway. TOR, 2017.
  • Le Guin, Ursula K. The dispossessed. Harper & Row, 1974.

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