PGFT: enabling the world's first decentralized digital languages
To curate content, facts, and information, the web of trust must simultaneously curate our digital tools of communication.
What is a decentralized language?
A decentralized language is modeled as a long list of pseudo-arbitrary questions, like the one in the figure: what do we call the timestamp of a nostr event? Each one has many answers that most of us would find perfectly acceptable. But with no Schelling point and no centralized authority, which option do we pick? Web of trust provides a simple, efficient and effective method to generate decentralized consensus on answers to this type of question.
What is the name of the field for the timestamp of a nostr event?
The Tapestry Protocol
The tapestry protocol is how we build decentralized digital languages. Its principal components are the Concept Graph, which enables us to ask questions, including pseudo-arbitrary ones, and the Grapevine, which enables your web of trust to answer them.
TAPESTRY & NOSTR
Similar to nostr in many ways, the tapestry protocol is built using a series of tapestry implementation proposals, or TIPs. However, the tapestry protocol is technically independent of the underlying network. Originally built on top of IPFS, the tapestry protocol is now being rebuilt over nostr.
GOAL: A LIVING TAPESTRY
Ultimately, your web of trust will take over the management of all digital tools of communication, including the tapestry protocol itself!
We'd LOVE for this to happen tomorrow, but we know it's going to require a lot of work and take a lot longer than we'd like. Maybe you can help!
Contributors
David Strayhorn
Anton Strickland
Anton Strickland
author of the tapestry protocol
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Anton Strickland
Anton Strickland
Anton Strickland
Lead Developer for our web app implementation of DCoSL: decentralized curation of simple lists (a refactor of a desktop implementation of DCoSL)
Kinjo Solutions:
https://www.antonstrickland.com
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Tekkadan
Anton Strickland
Tekkadan
Recruiter & Public Relations
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