BitChat can connect devices across a mesh network and allows you to send message without Internet connection.
By Alexandra Arici – Aug 14, 2025
Tired of Instagram? Flashes comes to the rescue!
By Alexandra Arici – Jul 5, 2025
Here’s what you need to know to dip your toes into the fediverse.
By Nick Fernandez – Apr 17, 2024
Urbit is a minimalist, network-native operating system that runs on top of Linux. Learn how you can create and use your own Urbit node today.
By Ramces Red – Aug 31, 2023
Tailscale is a lightweight VPN daemon and service for Linux. Learn how you can create a personal decentralized network by installing it today.
By Ramces Red – Aug 3, 2023
Nostr is a new and innovative approach to social media networking. Learn how it works and how you can install it in Linux today.
By Ramces Red – Jun 22, 2023
dVPNs rely on users offering their unused bandwidth to others.
By Ryan Lynch – Nov 16, 2022
Learn about DeFi and its potential of taking on centralized banking systems.
By Ojash Yadav – Apr 12, 2022
How secure do you think your online data is? If you’re using Blockstack decentralized apps, your data is encrypted and lives where you want it to.
By Andrew Braun – Mar 6, 2020
There are a growing number of new decentralized and blockchain-based social networks vying to be private, secure solutions to our social media needs.
By Andrew Braun – Nov 18, 2019
Rather than apps and sites being stored on single servers, in the future there will be decentralized applications (“Dapps”) that are stored on and run by computers all over the world. Find out how decentralized apps work here.
By Andrew Braun – Mar 14, 2018
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