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A collection of interesting new networks and tech aiming at decentralisation (in some form).

31 mentions on Hacker News by 25 people: 10 stories, 21 comments · first 2013-07-08 · latest 2025-09-15

Mentions per year 31 mentions · busiest year 2013 (9)
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  1. Great initiative! Note Re-Decentralise from 10 years ago with few hundred projects: https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet/blob/... This specific format includes details to see which projects are really active. Number of…
    comment by synctext · 2025-09-15 · in For Good First Issue – A repository of social impact and open source projects
  2. …https://redecentralize.org/ [1] https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web... [2] https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet [3] https://medium.com/@shevski/how-decentralised-are-you-a6539e... [4]…
    comment by webmaven · 2022-05-19 · in Ask HN: Cooperative or Non-Profit Software Development vs. Open Source
  3. …the ones below since you seemed to miss them: https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet
    comment by hunterb123 · 2022-02-20 · in Awesome Critique of Crypto/Web3
  4. …towards your "genuine curiosity" of web3 apps: https://github.com/gdamdam/awesome-decentralized-web https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet https://github.com/jasonwalsh/awesome-dapps
    comment by hunterb123 · 2022-02-19 · in Awesome Critique of Crypto/Web3
  5. ▲ 3
    Alternative Internet (Long List)
    story by IvanSologub · 2021-01-14 · 0 comments
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    Alternative-internet: interesting tools aiming at decentralisation
    story by laktak · 2020-10-29 · 0 comments
  7. I was reading their list of technology ( https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet ) and I think book looks really good, it's solid time-tested technology and I can't believe I'd never seen it in the 'alternative-internet'…
    comment by openfuture · 2020-02-28 · in Redecentralize.org
  8. …useful in this context: https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
    comment by PavlovsCat · 2018-11-13 · in More Information About Last Week’s Takedowns
  9. You're welcome :) These might also be of interest: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet
    comment by PavlovsCat · 2018-11-13 · in Medium is a poor choice for blogging
  10. …exist alternative protocols and communities of varying scope for every part of our de facto stack ( https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet ). Certainly creating an alternative infrastructure poses the biggest challenge, but…
    comment by jonny_storm · 2017-11-25 · in Ask HN: Is there a way to build an alternative internet?
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    Alternative Internet
    story by bpierre · 2017-11-13 · 0 comments
  12. …backdoors. See a list of 100+ projects that are struggling with trust and full decentralisation: https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet
    comment by synctext · 2016-12-05 · in What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it
  13. …site reliability & reduce operating expenses (by offloading CDN costs to the end users). [1] - https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet
    comment by webscaleizfun · 2016-10-24 · in Ask HN: Why are p2p CDNs not as prevalent?
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    Alternative Internet
    story by avinassh · 2015-11-05 · 1 comment
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    Alternative Internet
    story by kolev · 2015-09-02 · 0 comments
  16. https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet/blob/... https://github.com/digital-dreamer/blockchain-programming/wi...
    comment by edtechdev · 2015-08-07 · in Show HN: Help me writing a list of tools for a decentralized web
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    List of possible Alternative Internet projects from redecentralize
    story by vmorgulis · 2015-07-14 · 0 comments
  18. …there are some other decentralized / alternative Internet projects listed here (including Firestr): https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet/blob/...
    comment by edtechdev · 2015-04-25 · in Firestr: encrypted P2P chat and Lua application platform
  19. ▲ 5
    Comprensive GitHub Collection of Alternative Internet Platforms/apps/tools
    story by davidenglish · 2014-08-26 · 0 comments
  20. ▲ 2
    Alternative Internet Tools for decentralization
    story by dedalus · 2014-07-24 · 0 comments
  21. …been developed for decades, we even have lists of projects: http://redecentralize.org/interviews/ https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet Why don't we work more together?
    comment by synctext · 2014-02-16 · in Open Libernet: a Bitcoin-based fully encrypted mesh networking protocol
  22. …already mentioned Tor, Freenet, Twister, and Tim Berners-Lee's idea of re-decentralizing the web: https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet
    comment by jlcx · 2014-02-15 · in Venezuela Blocks Twitter as Opposition Stage New Protests
  23. tldr; https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet
    comment by mistermumble · 2013-10-16 · in Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again
  24. It's on the list - https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet#retroshare
    comment by rossj · 2013-10-14 · in Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again
  25. …(any missing? send a pull request). On this site, we interview one of those projects each month. https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet
    comment by dredmorbius · 2013-10-14 · in Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again
  26. I skipped straight to: https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet
    comment by WalterSear · 2013-10-14 · in Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again
  27. There is an informative textual index of projects we are working from here: https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet
    comment by shevski8 · 2013-10-13 · in Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again
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    Alternative Internet
    story by obilgic · 2013-09-03 · 0 comments
  29. https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet
    comment by jaytaylor · 2013-08-15 · in Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet
  30. Just in case you didn't see it before - github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet has a list of platforms,protocols and suchlike that are in this sort of area.
    comment by rossj · 2013-08-15 · in Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet
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    Alternative Internet
    story by selvan · 2013-07-08 · 92 comments