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# Projects using decentralized networking

There used to be a wonderful piece of decentralised, blockchain-like webware called ZeroNet.

It seems to be essentially dead in the water: still available, still operational, but its code hasn't been updated (on GitHub anyway) in over 5 years, and there aren't many users. It really only works when there are an abundance of users.

However, there are many other decentralised web-space technologies, so here I will list a few that I've recently discovered and am currently investigating.

We need a new paradigm for how to communicate through the web of the world.

We need to stop relying on internet providers and centralised server platforms, like Meta and Google and X (ex-Twitter, RIP Blue Bird) and all the rest.

## List of interesting technologies to explore

* Reddit post I got some of these from: [r/ZeroNet/ Is there any service/app similar to ZeroNet?](https://www.reddit.com/r/zeronet/comments/1i1cmf2/is_there_any_serviceapp_similar_to_zeronet/)

### Pear Runtime

Pear Runtime is a modular JS stack for creating "unlimited P2P apps".

* website — <https://pears.com/>
* docs site — <https://docs.pears.com/>
* github site — <https://github.com/holepunchto/pear>
* npm-js — <https://www.npmjs.com/package/pear>
* google it — <https://www.google.com/search?q=pear+runtime>

### EthSwarm

*"Swarm completes the vision of consensual computation, decentralised infrastructure, and private messaging, powering open, serverless, and permissionless dapps."*

* website — <https://www.ethswarm.org/>
* docs site — <https://docs.ethswarm.org/docs/concepts/what-is-swarm>
* github site — <https://github.com/ethersphere/bee>

### IPFS — InterPlanetary File System

*"IPFS is an open system to manage data without a central server."*

Despite the seemingly humorous name, this is a legit platform that has served — and still does — in providing internet access to government-blocked sites. One major event was Turkey blocking Wikipedia in 2017, and IPFS was used to clone Wikipedia and provide un-blockable access to Turkish citizens for 3 years — the govt actually restored access in 2020.

* website — <https://ipfs.tech/>
* Ted Talk about IPFS — [The next Internet Revolution | Juan Benet | TEDxSanFrancisco — YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RCwZDRwk48)
  * @10:35 : *"The internet is supposed to be a force for equality, it's supposed to equalize access to information knowledge. It's the people who need it the most, that get the least benefit from it."*
* [Article explaining what they did with Wikipedia](https://blog.ipfs.tech/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/)
* Distributed Wikipedia Mirror Project — [https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror](https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror#readme)
  * Wikipedia mirrors in: English, Turkish, Burmese (Myanmar), Arabic, Chinese, Ukranian, Russian, Farsi (Persian)

### Nostr Apps

I haven't really worked out what this is all about yet, but it seems to be a fundamental communications protocol that is inherently uncensorable, and there are a whole slew of apps built using the nostr protocol.

Check out the apps hub website.

* app hub website — <https://nostrapps.com/>
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