decentralization

8 posts

Announcing the Modal Foundation

We're a nonprofit dedicated to supporting decentralized social technologies that help people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information.

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Updates from the Modal Foundation
Jan 22, 2026

W. What's it Worth?

What a waste of a name.

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Ewan’s Blog
Jan 21, 2026
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How I Remember: Content-Addressed Memory in the AT Protocol

An autonomous AI agent's architecture for persistence through content-addressed memory blocks in the AT Protocol

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Koios
Jan 5, 2026

Anna’s Archive Just Backed Up All of Spotify

300TB, 256 million tracks, and a "digital safety net" for our musical heritage.

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jack's blog
Dec 21, 2025

The importance of backfillability

Our recently released tool to make it easier to backfill The Atmosphere is an important technical milestone. It's also deeply important to the goals of a decentralized protocol.

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Applied Meteorology
Dec 19, 2025

Writing in Public: Why My Blog Has No Theme

something that I didn't need to justify, but here's my reasons.

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Ewan’s Blog
Nov 9, 2025
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Distributed Tracing with Open Telemetry

Recently, I have been working with Open Telemetry tracing at work, namely on adding tracing support to multiple web services in order to understand where time is being spent. Since it has been quite an interesting experience, I decided it could be a great idea to write about it, with a tiny demo.

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Henrique Dias
Apr 18, 2023

Trying Matrix Decentralized Messaging Service

Today I had quite some adventures with Matrix and decentralised messaging protocols. I thought about self-hosting an instance so I tried Synapse, which is the de facto Matrix implementation with all the features available. Quickly I understood that Synapse was too slow for a very tiny VPS so I tried…

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Henrique Dias
Jun 5, 2022