It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2024 ACM CoNEXT Workshop on the Decentralization of the Internet (DIN). This workshop serves as a vital forum to explore cuttingedge research, practical implementations, and new directions for decentralizing the architecture of the Internet. The workshop is connected to the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Research Group on the Decentralization of the Internet (DINRG). Recent years have witnessed the consolidations of the Internet applications, services, as well as the infrastructure, often with detrimental effects on society and user control of their own data. As the need for resilient, scalable, and user-centered network infrastructures becomes increasingly evident, this workshop convenes researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders to discuss the technologies and methodologies driving the next generation of decentralized internet systems.
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Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media
- Martin Kleppmann,
- Paul Frazee,
- Jake Gold,
- Jay Graber,
- Daniel Holmgren,
- Devin Ivy,
- Jeromy Johnson,
- Bryan Newbold,
- Jaz Volpert
Bluesky is a new social network built upon the AT Protocol, a decentralized foundation for public social media. It was launched in private beta in February 2023, and has grown to over 10 million registered users by October 2024. In this paper we ...
ReP2P Matrix: Decentralized Relays to Improve Reliability and Performance of Peer-to-Peer Matrix
Matrix is a decentralized middleware for low-latency group communication, most renowned for its use in the Element instant messenger. Proposals for peer-to-peer (P2P) Matrix architectures aim to decentralize the current architecture further, which is ...
On Empowering End Users in Future Networking
In today's Internet, end users communicate largely via cloud-based apps, and user data are stored in cloud servers and controlled by cloud providers. Recent years have witnessed multiple efforts in developing decentralized social apps with various design ...
A Two-phase Protocol for Atomic Multi-chain Transactions
A blockchain enables secure, atomic transactions among untrusted parties. Atomicity is not guaranteed, however, for transactions whose operations span several blockchains; multi-chain atomicity must be enforced by a protocol. Such protocols are known ...
Communication Cost for Permissionless Distributed Consensus at Internet Scale
The diffusion of information that evolves a distributed computing state is a fundamental operation of a permissionless distributed consensus system (DCS). This permissionless participation decentralized the consensus over the distributed computing state, ...
Towards a Decentralized Internet Namespace
The Domain Name System (DNS) has been providing a decentralized global namespace to support all Internet applications and usages over the last few decades. In the recent years, a number of blockchain-based name systems have emerged with the claim of ...
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