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Willow – Protocols for an uncertain future [video]

3 months ago
  • #open-source
  • #peer-to-peer
  • #protocol-design
  • Willow is a family of publicly-funded, open-source peer-to-peer protocols.
  • The talk focuses on designing protocols that are harder to weaponize, learning from past abuses of centralized and peer-to-peer systems.
  • Willow explores surprising design choices to resist being turned against users.
  • The presentation is illustrated and slightly musical, presented by the worm-blossom collective.
  • Speaker: Sammy Gwilym.
  • Event details: Local-First track, Room K.3.201, Sunday, 15:55-16:20 (UTC+1).