Willow – Protocols for an uncertain future [video] (fosdem.org)

worm-blossom crew is just a delightful bunch of humans doing really great work

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Very inspiring talk how to organize data for federalized systems.

"Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway."

What a weird take. The internet was built fundamentally decentralized but was centralized against us with the worst of intentions. They lost me at the first sentence.

CRDT hacker here. The talk says CRDTs need to store a history of fine-grained edits indefinitely to make them work. There are some ways around this requirement. I'd be happy to chat more about this if anyone is interested!

http telnet, irc, SMTP, imap - what else we need really? KISS

Encryption is awful for future archeologists etc.