(2022-10-09) Brander Noosphere Design Principles

Gordon Brander: Noosphere design principles. We’ve been making a lot of headway on Noosphere the last few weeks. New contributors, progress on a Noosphere CLI, and the beginnings of the p2p petname name service.

we thought it be a good time to jot down some of the values and principles that have inspired us, as we navigate the idea maze around Noosphere

Purpose

Our mission: unstoppable tools for thinking together.

Noosphere builds on the foundations of content-addressing and IPLD data structures,

Noosphere supports credible exit

Noosphere is evolvable

Noosphere is permissionless

Noosphere aims for decentralization...

aims to mitigate downside where centralization emerges

Noosphere is a commons

Noosphere is for everybody

Design is navigating tradeoffs by values