User:Bkil/Decentralized communication

Decentralized serverless communication, knowledge sharing, browsing, Internet-like services, offline cooperative productivity.

Delay tolerant gossip

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggle_(architecture)
 * ... (dozens of different systems outlined in various research papers)

Replicated, offline access

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_mailing_list (usually centralized, but offline access with mail user agent)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndie#Concept (forums with full replication, subject to blacklists and quota)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RetroShare#Communication (forums cache propagating between subscribed friends)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(software)#Message_propagation (ShadowChat broadcast)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris_(software) (proprietary freeware, portal level replication)
 * https://ssbc.github.io/ https://scuttlebot.io/ https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ (only message part is replicated, blob attachments are requested)
 * Briar (software) (work in progress, replicated forums)

Persistent, distributed, supporting scatter/gather for indirect retrieval

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnet_(peer-to-peer_network)#File_Publishing_System (predecessor of Tahoe-LAFS)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe-LAFS (file system)
 * XtreemFS (file system)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage#Operation (messages are only archived for 2 days)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Haven_Project#Distributed_anonymous_storage_system
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet#Communication (only partially persistent! FMS, Sone, Freesite with Activelink prefetching)

Accessible, lazy peer to peer, usually both a seeder and a requester needs to be online simultaneously

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_(protocol)#Features
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P#Email (transport for I2P-Bote, Syndie or Tahoe-LAFS)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeroNet (torrent)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System (torrent-like cache)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUnet#Social_API
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twister_(software)#Protocols
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(software)

Federated

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_protocols_for_distributed_social_networking

To evaluate

 * https://matrix.org/
 * https://datproject.org/about
 * https://github.com/solid/solid
 * https://github.com/btrask/stronglink
 * https://maidsafe.net/
 * https://github.com/OpenTechFund/secure-email