SOLARCAST

Known as a well kept secret and hidden pearl of the P2P scene in Europe, Aljoscha makes a rare appearance in this podcast and brings us into his mind and the theoretical computer science of P2P data structures. As someone who can relate to Lockharts Lament and in the pursuit of beautiful solutions, Aljoscha found an idea which could be improved on , and in turn presented the solution of Range Base...

This bubbly conversation traces the outlines of security work going beyond the raw code and into the nitty gritty of social webs and structural design. Cade Diehm walks us through the collapse of the third wave of decentralization, and the realizations along the way. He also introduces the frameworks of EXCILIC and ANXIETY which are at the core of the studio ParaReal ’s work. To read more of the w...

This episode explores the varied means of communicating when the internet gets shut down with the qaul قول project, a delay tolerant network . Stemming from the arab spring and seeing the need for a means of communicating when authoritarian governments shut down the internet, Mathias Jud shares insights from the past 15 years of solving the challenge of communication during internet outage, from t...

In this episode we embark on a learning journey guided by Fintan and Lorenz into the realms of forges, patches and repositories. Radicle is a code collaboration platform built for developers who value transparency, ownership, and open-source resilience, building on peer-to-peer and local-first infrastructure for censorship-resistant collaboration directly over Git. This conversation flows through...

Protecting indigenous digital sovereignty and planting the seed for a different relationship to technology, this episode covers the project of CoMapeo . Guided by Luandro who works at Awana Digital , and has walked many lands and spoken to communities across the world, while co-create what CoMapeo means in their contexts. Building on the protocol Hypercore , the offline-first capabilities of CoMap...

In this episode we talk to Blake who’s working on a Rust implementation of the Hypercore protocol . Hypercore (formerly known as .dat and part of the dat ecosystem ) is one of the oldest P4P networks. Blake presents two usecases for Hypercore as a protocol which have previously been under-explored but are highly promising—for RSS and for package-management—showcasing the versatility of P4P protoco...

Modal is a newly founded collective focusing on emancipatory technology through development, design, organizing and policy campaigning. Consisting of representatives from various communities within secure and open-source technology such as GNOME , the New Design Congress with Cade Diem, postmarket OS and p2panda . Find more Modal events, such as the Boiling the Ocean meetups on the event page . Re...

This upbeat episode features a flourishing conversation about protocol development together with Niko . From the exciting announcement of ELFA to the philosophical topic of singularity vs multiplicity to the origins of Nextgraph and the technology it builds on, follow along and learn more about the landscape of Open-Source in Europe . Listen in, learn and enjoy <3

Peer-2-Peer starts with a connection. Iroh does just that. Floris joins us and brings us along in exploring the decisions along the way which have shaped Iroh into what it is today. In this episode we introduce how connections are made through ~NAT traversal~ for P2P networks, and why it matters at all. This is the first episode of Solarcast and the kick-off of the P4Podcast series.