I’ve always been fascinated by networking and stuff related, ever since the peer to peer networks arisen, since the times of Napster, iMesh, E-mule, and the likes, since the old Messenger, ICQ, and event NetMeeting, and then with the advent of the BitTorrent protocol, all of these types of technologies have always caught my attention and I’ve always been intrigued by the applications but even more so by the technology behind them.

Yesterday, coincidentally, I stumbled upon many concepts of decentralized networks and protocols. While I was reading this post about the Ubuntu devs switching to the Matrix protocol, I found out about Matrix, then later while watching this video about how BlueSky grew in the past months I found out about the Nostr protocol, the ActivityPub protocol (which I already knew about), and the AT protocol used by BlueSky.

I kept reading about them all day long and went down the rabbit hole. Now I’m stuck in there, but it’s fascinating.

For future reference, I’ll leave here some links to the resources I’ve found:

• Nostr
• ActivityPub
• AT protocol
• Matrix
• BlueSky
• Solid
• Nostr for Beginners w/ Derek Ross
• How To Get Started With Nostr
• Descubrí cómo funciona NOSTR y el porqué de su potencial | Jota (In Spanish)
• Jack Dorsey compares Nostr to other Social Networks
• Jack Dorsey explains how Nostr works in 2 minutes