While there is a surge in federated social media sites, like Bluesky and Mastodon, some technologists are hoping to take things further than this model of decentralization with fully peer-to-peer applications. Two leading projects, Spritely and Veilid, hint at what this could look like.There are...

Lobsters is a community-driven platform for sharing and discussing links to articles, tutorials, and projects related to technology and programming. Readers can learn about a wide range of topics, from software development and system administration to cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. With user submissions, comments, and voting, Lobsters provides a platform for collaborative learning and knowledge sharing among technology enthusiasts.

Lobsters

Technologists are working on fully peer-to-peer applications to achieve greater decentralization. Spritely and Veilid are two leading projects in this effort. Spritely focuses on building distributed apps that don't even have to know they're distributed, providing privacy and security through object capabilities. Veilid, on the other hand, offers private routing and a multi-writer Distributed Hash Table (DHT) for secure communication and data retrieval. Both projects have the potential to significantly impact the future of decentralized tools and services on the internet.

Spritely and Veilid: Exciting Projects Building the Peer-to-Peer Web