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what are some websites / platforms / tools / softwares that are (or feel) decentralised but *don't* use crypto rails?

aware of are.na for content and Metalabel for selling creative things and splitting revenue with other creators. any others that people like?

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how are you defining decentralized? are.na's not really decentralized in that all the data is stored on their servers which would be a centralized point of failure. but arena is open and ppl can build other stuff with their apis ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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the major ones would be things like bluesky/at protocol and mastodon/activitypub and matrix but many will debate the true decentralized nature of this stuff with bsky still being concentrated in the bsky company and the fediverse and matrix have their own quirks. a lot of indieweb stuff strives for a decentralized approach, like indieauth, but in practice can again be debatable due to provider centralization like everything else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

here is a good list of decentralizing efforts in many categories. most of them have nothing to do with the crypto space as we know it

the major ones would be things like bluesky/at protocol and mastodon/activitypub and matrix but many will debate the true decentralized nature of this stuff with bsky still being concentrated in the bsky company and the fediverse and matrix have their own quirks. a lot of indieweb stuff strives for a decentralized approach, like indieauth, but in practice can again be debatable due to provider centralization like everything else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

here is a good list of decentralizing efforts in many categories. most of them have nothing to do with the crypto space as we know it https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet?tab=readme-ov-file#general

but if there are actual decentralised non-crypto products/platforms i’d love to discover them and learn how they do it!

yeah ahaha hence the ‘feel’ decentralised. i don’t think either of the two i mentioned are really decentralised on the back end so i guess i mean in feeling/culture, ‘communal’