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Latest revision as of 21:44, 9 December 2023
DWeb use cases
Notes
Title: Towards an Evaluation Framework of Decentralized Technologies for Nonprofits
Sub-title: What is decentralized technology and how can nonprofits decide whether or not to use a certain decentralized tech tool?
- Co-created understanding of “decentralized” tech to demystify it
- Automated, Consensus
- More democratic
- Technical alternatives to centralized, corporate owned tech
- Protocols, blockchains
- Transparent datasets
- Freedom from (profit-driven) “managers”
- Freedom from control to increase transparency (over the info that the system releases /records)
- No obligatory intermediaries
- Share a photo and don’t have to go through a centralized platform (P2P)
- No single point of failure
- Open Source
- Problems with centralized internet (Examples)
- Airbnb has data about hosts and the illegal displacement of tenants
- Ride share platform with data about their workers
- “They don’t want you to know what’s in the data”
- Proprietary data sets that people should have access to to ensure equity and justice
- Facebook /AWS service outages
- Cloudfare (middleware): traffic management
- Co-create an evaluation framework
- Theoretical vs. practical decentralization
- Tech Stack
- Governance and Ownership Layer
- Application Layer
- Middleware
- Data Layer:
- Decentralization of information structure
- Network Layer
- Physical Infrastructure Layer
- Criteria for evaluation:
- Privacy
- Anonymity
- transparency
- Safety - from whom/what?
- Security
- Interoperability: standards, protocols
- Strategy / High level barriers
- We need to “re-materialize” the internet: teach people how the internet actually works. We are too conditioned to the ease of use of everything.
- Also, at the same time, we need to make dweb (and movement tools in general) more usable
- In practice, we’re always relying on others for our tech, so let’s ask ourselves WHO are we relying on? How do we decide who to rely on?
- What are the tradeoffs of freedoms and control that make a specific technology a good choice for a specific use case?
- What is the liability attack surface?
- Risks of decentralized technologies:
- Piracy, different types of attacks
Examples of Using the evaluation framework:
- Mastodon:
- Decentralization stack: (is the technology decentralized at this layer of the stack?)
- Ownership - yes
- Governance - no
- Federated - yes
- Distributed - no
- This specific combination makes Mastodon a decent choice for communities who need good moderation: you can exclude bad actors in a federated network
- Barriers:
- not easy to use, had to teach people how to pick a server
- Usability hierarchy
- Tracking clicks
- People don’t know what they’re giving away
Use Cases
Projects and jobs to be done:
- Bay Area Mesh - Wifi Access
- Velid
Mastodon - Social Media
Mapeo - Remote Community Mapping
Safaru System (Kenya) - Local Community Currency (Community Inclusion Currency)
Internet Archive - Community Archives / Library
Starling Lab
Tor Project - Private Browsing
- Tor Exit Nodes
Document Cloud - Google Docs
MORE NOTES
D-Web
Val Elefante
Definition:
Freedom from managers – freedom of control; to protect and enhance transparency
- Proprietary info (datasets) that is withheld from the public
- The D-Web can help store data in a decentralized way – they don’t want the consumer to know what is in the data
- No obligatory intermediaries – ex – you can send anything without a middle man – its P2P
- Autonomous self-hosting >> You own your own server
- No single point of failure – the network is distributed – geographically and across individuals
- There is a decentralized physical infrastructure (server) and the data is replicated and stored across multiple nodes, then there is an application layer
- It’s a movement of ppl working on their own networks of servers and protocol standards to store data
- You must be technical to use the D-Web – is it accessible without locking someone our
- Cloudflare – increase use of your data by providing you with security
- They use applications that are built on top of a decentralized network
- Slack Alternatives, Instagram Alternatives, FB alternatives
- Criteria – decentralized, repeatable, no single point of failure for your data
- For ex, if AWS goes out – it will impact millions of ppl at scale
- Information is also decentralized via transparency
- Use-case
- MESH Network: Ham-radio – Bay Area MESH, ppl can set up an antenna, point it at another antenna, they are connected, without the internet – It runs without any centralization / community-owned, open-source
- Governance is on accountability – ppl keep each other in line
- Mastodon – Social Media
- Mapeo – remote community mapping –
- Safaru system in Kenya – community inclusion digital currency - crypto
- Internet Archive
- Document Cloud – ppl can upload docs of any kind
- Starling Lab
- Tor Network – private browsing
- Zoom alternative (like Jitsi)
- The goal of the movement is working twd a more democratic, Automated and distributed consensus method
- Strategy: re-materialize the internet and how it works
- Non-technical ppl should be describing what the internet should be – like social sciences
- Caution : that one individual made it
- MESH Network: Ham-radio – Bay Area MESH, ppl can set up an antenna, point it at another antenna, they are connected, without the internet – It runs without any centralization / community-owned, open-source
- They use applications that are built on top of a decentralized network
Mastadon – the individual owns the software – but it’s not distributed
distributed data is backed up on others’ computers
moderation – each server has it’s own moderation system – and a learning curve to participate
The bar to access needs to be low enough that the knowledge is accessible
Barriers: lack of education, usability, hierarchy, tracking clicks – people don’t know what they are giving away