[joshuakelly]

SSB has a special place in my heart. I wrote this a year ago on HN and it seems truer than ever:

> There’s no global timeline — just archipelagos. It assumes that network heterogeny is the default, and is transmission layer agnostic. Breakages will occur. Maybe you’re living on a catamaran in the South Pacific and you only have connectivity once a month — SSB will work even then.

> Your own timeline is a sigchain — a sequenced list of signed messages. You replicate the content in your network (2 hops away). Bridges between communities can be built or burned. Many islands can exist without needing to erase the others from even existing — mutual separation is possible. Consensus is not necessary. #againstconsensus

> Is global network culture still possible? If it is, in the midst of the national internets we now live inside of, I suspect it will look something like this. A little different from what we were promised, but maybe a little better too.

[beckman466]

"We need a parallel system of technology development that can guide society as conventional systems unravel and conventional technologies fail to adequately address our problems.

We need, to use Ken Carey’s phrase, to establish islands of the future in an ocean of the past. For reasons I will describe soon, let us call these places Institutes for Technologies of Reunion."

https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/institutes-for-technolo...