THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

Cryptography can be used to craft a more humane social media ecosystem by freeing information from custodians, decoupling digital identities from third-party providers, encouraging openness and innovation, embracing privacy and community, and anchoring the digital world in the real.

Part 1: Liquefaction

• Memory: Thucydides and the shallows link
• Democracy and Queerness: Accelerated Individualism link

Part 2: Technology that says "no"

• Censorship: the custodians of knowledge link
• Authenticity: messages and messengers link
• Identity: Privacy, secrecy and anonymity link
• Open Protocols: Language and open source software link

Part 3: Reforming Technology

• Things of the Earth: Simulation and transcendence link
• Chesteron's Fence: Identity and community link
• Silviculture: Maturity and time link

Part 4: Cypherspaces

• Nostr: sovereign identity, aligned storage, open protocol link
• Understanding media: how a user-centric internet changes us link
• Dark Cypherspace: Negative Externalities and The Gospel link