Decentralization

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All things and everything about decentralization: news, announcements, proposals, and discussions about decentralized apps, protocols and communities.

• decentralized web (dweb)
• peer-to-peer (P2P)
• file-sharing (e.g., BitTorrent, IPFS, and Gnutella)
• self-hosting
• federation (e.g., ActivityPub/Fediverse and Bluesky)
• federated apps (e.g., Mastodon, Lemmy, and Pixelfed)
• cryptocurrencies (e.g., Bitcoin and Ethereum)

Rules

1. Be polite and follow the rules of our instance lemmy.world.
2. "Follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."
3. With respect to peer-to-peer and file-sharing technologies, refrain from posting illegal content (piracy) or links to it.
4. With respect to cryptocurrencies, refrain from
   1. posting initial coin offerings (ICOs) and giveaways
   2. posting referral and promo links/codes

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