Slack servers are down and work stops. Facebook sells users’ personal data to third-parties with no negative consequences to the company. Turkey successfully blocks citizens’ access to Wikipedia. Those are all results of peoples’ decisions of course, but there’s also something else at play. Our mainstream technology stack makes execution on all of those decisions ridiculously easy.

The Internet didn’t quite deliver on its original promise and today we’re talking with people who are fixing it.

Episode was produced by Andrey Salomatin.

Music by Mid-Air!

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This episode in Dat: dat://084e8ceae2fd1012e5368a70908acdb7aa92c3f5de0c62d14ef5beacbf19295d

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Outline

00:07 Introducing the topic

01:57 Limitations of centralized systems

04:57 Introducing Jon-Kyle

05:57 Introducing Zenna

08:23 Introducing Mathias

11:20 BitTorrent and scale

14:19 Multiple versions of the truth, version control systems ( Jon-Kyle )

) 19:16 Introducing Christian

20:08 Git internal structure

22:03 Benefits of Git architecture

27:03 Why is Git not dicentralized

32:23 How Dat started, tech description of the protocol (back to Mathias )

) 45:28 Dat usecases ( Mathias and Jon-Kyle )

and ) 51:42 Future of Dat ( Mathias )

) 53:54 Introducing Mikey

55:07 History of Scuttlebutt

56:22 How Scuttlebutt works

65:30 Usecases for Scuttlebutt

69:29 Vision for the decentralized future ( Zenna )

) 71:39 Final thoughts on the topic, summary, thanks

Links

Links: Git

Links: Dat & Beaker

Links: Scuttlebutt