Distroid Issue 4

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Summary

• Announcement

• Learn

• Headlines

• Projects

• Questions

• Feedback

• Get Involved

• Join Us

• Support our Work

• About us

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Announcement

Distroid is looking for sponsors! If you, or someone you know, is interested in sponsoring the newsletter, please reach out at ledgerback@gmail.com.

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Learn

1. Regulate the web by yiibu

2. Designing decentralized moderation

3. PETAL – the end-to-end web stack

4. Science as a Commons: Improving the Governance of Knowledge Through Citizen Science

5. A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

6. Beyond Money: Alternative Currencies for Redefining Value

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Headlines

1. Here are some of the biggest DeFi events of 2020

2. 2021 blockchain predictions from Energy Web

3. ‘It’s not OK’: Elastic takes aim at AWS, at the risk of major collateral damage

4. 2021 Trends in Blockchain: Mainstream Adoption at Last

5. Universal basic income doesn’t impact worker productivity

6. 40 Social Entrepreneurs to Watch for in 2021

7. Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol

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Projects

1. Posmo Cooperative

2. Polkadot

3. Planetary Social Network

4. Aether

5. Movim

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Questions

Readers! We have a couple questions for you! We hope you enjoy them.

1. What do you think is the difference between decentralization and democratization?

2. What were your favorite open source projects of 2020?

3. How would you moderate a decentralized social network (in reference to Designing decentralized moderation)?

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Feedback

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Co11aborat3

You can always collaborate with the LedgerbackØDCRC by participating in one of the following activities:

• Joining our annotation club on Hypothes.is and read with us

• Joining our Zotero Group

• Taking our surveys, polls and quizzes

• Sourcing datasets on our thematic areas and sending them to us

• Sending us your feedback on our work

• Participating our our open research projects

• Submitting manuscripts on our open calls for papers

• Setting up a meeting to discuss a topic with us on Jitsi

• Participating in our challenges

• Sending us interesting content (articles, news, podcasts, ideas, etc.) you want us to discuss

• Sending us ideas to develop on platforms, protocols, public databases, and knowledge commons

• Take a break from your day and try one of our reading lists

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Join Our Co-op and Learn With Us

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Support Our Work

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About us

The LedgerbackØDCRC is a nonprofit co-operative think-and-do tank for fostering collaboration between stakeholders and unifying the study of the internet and society (i.e., web science, study of the network society) to transition towards a global technological commonwealth.

The LedgerbackØDCRC runs the Distroid newsletter to provide interesting updates on the network society and how to transition towards a global technological commonwealth.

You can find more information about the co-op on our website.

This newsletter was written by Charles Adjovu, Member of the LedgerbackØDCRC.