# Decentralization

## Links

* [Building a Peer to Peer world that Unleashes Human Creativity](https://adecentralizedworld.com/) - [A Trust and Moderation System for the Decentralized Web](https://adecentralizedworld.com/2020/06/a-trust-and-moderation-system-for-the-decentralized-web/)
* [Scuttlebutt](https://scuttlebutt.nz/) social network a decentralised platform - the underlying technology here means that messages are passed directly between friends via a peer-to-peer (p2p) [gossip protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol).
* [I2P](https://geti2p.net/en/) is an anonymous network built on top of the internet. It allows users to create and access content and build online communities on a network that is both distributed and dynamic. It is intended to protect communication and resist monitoring by third parties such as ISPs.
* [Holochain](https://holochain.org/) is an open source framework for building fully distributed, peer-to-peer applications. Holochain is BitTorrent + Git + Cryptographic Signatures + Peer Validation + Gossip."
* [Urbit](https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/) is a new OS and peer-to-peer network that’s simple by design, built to last forever, and 100% owned by its users.
* [An overview of the decentralized social ecosystem](https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/twitter.modular.im/981b258141aa0b197804127cd2f7d298757bad20)(PDF) by Matrix.org
* A [curated list](https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web) about the decentralized technologies and tools to develop decentralized applications.
* A [collection](https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet) of interesting networks and technology aiming at re-decentralizing the Internet.