From 4cfc323b7ca5534553ca90e92dae3e0f8c8923e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: murilo ijanc
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:22:22 -0300
Subject: Add tesseras-dht and tesseras-paste package pages
Replace the about/inspiration sections with a packages listing.
Add dedicated pages for tesseras-dht and tesseras-paste with
download, signify/SHA256 verification, source links, and docs.
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-About | License | Contact
+Packages | License | Contact
"Your voice matters — even when no one knows your name."
-About
-
-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.
-
-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.
-
-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.
-
-How It Works
-
-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.
-
-There is no blockchain. No tokens. No incentive layer. Nodes relay content for
-each other because that is how the network works.
-
-Why "Tesseras"?
-
-A tessera 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.
-
-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.
-
-Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
-
-Tesseras doesn't exist in a vacuum. It builds on decades of work by projects
-that proved decentralization is not just possible — it works.
+Packages
- - I2P — anonymous overlay network with garlic routing and a Kademlia-based NetDB
- - IPFS — content-addressed distributed storage over a Kademlia DHT
- - GNUnet GNS — decentralized name system (RFC 9498), direct ancestor of Tesseras TNS
- - Scuttlebutt — P2P social with append-only logs, gossip replication, and Ed25519 feeds
- - Nostr — event-based social protocol with Ed25519 identities
- - Iroh — QUIC-based P2P with relay fallback and hole punching
- - Veilid — P2P framework with DHT and encrypted routing
- - OpenBSD relayd — reference for the daemon/control privilege separation architecture
- - OpenBSD unwind — inspiration for the local DNS resolver design
- - Briar — censorship-resistant messaging over Tor and Bluetooth
- - RetroShare — friend-to-friend encrypted forums, channels, and chat
- - Lemmy — federated Reddit-like forum, moderation model reference
+ - tesseras-dht — NAT-aware Kademlia DHT library for Rust
+ - tesseras-paste — decentralized encrypted pastebin built on tesseras-dht
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