This Sunday at ’26!

Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same.

How do we make the next generation of protocols more difficult to weaponise?

This is the lens which I’ll use to look at Willow (willowprotocol.org), a family of publicly-funded, open source peer-to-peer protocols. Join me for a presentation of drawings, music, and insight gained from working in p2p for the past six years.

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event

A drawing in a kind of pictographic style. A red tall block which looks a bit like a server stands atop a mountain peak, with wires leading to stylised users at their computers surrounding it.
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