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Cory Doctorow / 9:13 am Mon, Apr 2, 2018

Governing a decentralized internet without votes

When we think of democracy, we generally think of voting: the people are polled, the people decide. But voting is zero-sum: it has winners and losers. There are other models of governance that can make claim to democratic legitimacy that produce wins for everyone. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 7:15 am Tue, Jun 6, 2017

Beaker: a decentralized, peer-to-peer web browser that lets you create and fork websites

Beaker is a project from Dat, a "grant-funded, open-source, decentralized data sharing tool." It's a browser that lets you easily create websites using Markdown, or fork any existing website to make it suit your needs, and then share those sites peer-to-peer, without the need for servers in the middle. Read the rest