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@@ -29,64 +29,16 @@ ╚═╝ ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚══════╝ </pre> -<p style="text-align:center"><a href="#about">About</a> | <a href="#license">License</a> | <a href="#contact">Contact</a></p> +<p style="text-align:center"><a href="#packages">Packages</a> | <a href="#license">License</a> | <a href="#contact">Contact</a></p> <blockquote style="text-align:center"> <p><em>"Your voice matters — even when no one knows your name."</em></p> </blockquote> -<h2 id="about">About</h2> - -<p>Every platform you use today has an owner. Someone who reads your posts before -you publish them. Someone who decides what you can say, who you can reach, and -whether your account exists tomorrow.</p> - -<p>Tesseras is a peer-to-peer social network with no central server, no accounts -to ban, and no algorithm deciding what you see. You publish markdown content -directly to an overlay network. Others discover it through a distributed hash -table — no middleman, no moderation queue, no terms of service.</p> - -<p>You can be pseudonymous, with a cryptographic identity that proves authorship -without revealing who you are. Or you can be fully anonymous — no identity at -all, just words.</p> - -<h3>How It Works</h3> - -<p>Nodes connect directly over QUIC, forming a self-organizing network. Content -is addressed by its BLAKE3 hash — immutable and verifiable. Communities are -cryptographic zones, not corporate property. Names are local petnames, not a -global registry someone controls.</p> - -<p>There is no blockchain. No tokens. No incentive layer. Nodes relay content for -each other because that is how the network works.</p> - -<h3>Why "Tesseras"?</h3> - -<p>A <em>tessera</em> is a small piece of stone or glass used to compose a mosaic. -Individually simple. Individually durable. But together, they form something -larger. Some Roman mosaics made of tesserae are still intact after two thousand -years.</p> - -<p>Each post in the network is a tessera — a small, self-contained fragment. -The network is the mosaic, assembled piece by piece, by many hands.</p> - -<h2 id="inspiration">Standing on the Shoulders of Giants</h2> - -<p>Tesseras doesn't exist in a vacuum. It builds on decades of work by projects -that proved decentralization is not just possible — it works.</p> +<h2 id="packages">Packages</h2> <ul> - <li><a href="https://geti2p.net/">I2P</a> — anonymous overlay network with garlic routing and a Kademlia-based NetDB</li> - <li><a href="https://ipfs.tech/">IPFS</a> — content-addressed distributed storage over a Kademlia DHT</li> - <li><a href="https://www.gnunet.org/">GNUnet GNS</a> — decentralized name system (RFC 9498), direct ancestor of Tesseras TNS</li> - <li><a href="https://scuttlebutt.nz/">Scuttlebutt</a> — P2P social with append-only logs, gossip replication, and Ed25519 feeds</li> - <li><a href="https://nostr.com/">Nostr</a> — event-based social protocol with Ed25519 identities</li> - <li><a href="https://iroh.computer/">Iroh</a> — QUIC-based P2P with relay fallback and hole punching</li> - <li><a href="https://veilid.com/">Veilid</a> — P2P framework with DHT and encrypted routing</li> - <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd">OpenBSD relayd</a> — reference for the daemon/control privilege separation architecture</li> - <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/unwind">OpenBSD unwind</a> — inspiration for the local DNS resolver design</li> - <li><a href="https://briarproject.org/">Briar</a> — censorship-resistant messaging over Tor and Bluetooth</li> - <li><a href="https://retroshare.cc/">RetroShare</a> — friend-to-friend encrypted forums, channels, and chat</li> - <li><a href="https://join-lemmy.org/">Lemmy</a> — federated Reddit-like forum, moderation model reference</li> + <li><a href="tesseras-dht.html">tesseras-dht</a> — NAT-aware Kademlia DHT library for Rust</li> + <li><a href="tesseras-paste.html">tesseras-paste</a> — decentralized encrypted pastebin built on tesseras-dht</li> </ul> <h2 id="contact">Contact</h2> |