Spritely Networked Communities Institute
Spritely Institute builds, researches, and standardizes networked technology which put people and communities first.
Centralized social media is harmful to society. We are building a gatekeeper-free decentralized system. Our mission is “social media done right”, to put people in control of their own identity and build the technology that would enable a shift to collaborative and intentional security models prioritizing active consent. To accomplish this, we will build a new architecture for the internet: removing the necessity of client-server architecture, replacing it with a participatory peer-centric model.
Spritely’s technology is being released as free and open source software aiming for multiple programming language implementations and eventual open standardization. All of our work, ranging from decentralized identity, peer-to-peer user agents, decentralized social networks, encrypted and portable storage, and distributed object programming infrastructure is being built to enable a gatekeeper-free path where users and content are not tied to a specific server.
Donors
Jonathan Frederickson Spritely is doing important work for secure collaboration on the web! The foundations they're building could make social applications possible that were either impossible or very difficult to build without them.
David Anderson Spritely is painting a picture of a hopeful, human future for people and their communication, and have a credible vision to get there. That's a rare thing, and worthy of support.
Josh Mock The world needs social media that isn't powered by centralized sources that don't have our best interests in mind. Spritely's mission helps make that more achievable. 🖤
Travis Vachon 1Spritely does world class work on a local budget - delighted to support their work!
Erlend Sogge Heggen Spritely is at the forefront of R&D in distributed networks!
Gossen Rijkeboer Thank you for your very important work!