Massive Decentralization

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Massive Decentralization maps one of a number of possible cooperating architectures for human-centered decentralization and federation. Since decentralization itself must be decentralized, we believe this is one way, but not the only way, to decentralize.

Massive Decentralization is part of the Massive Human Intelligence Project, which is organized by Peter Kaminski.

We propose the following (draft, 2022-06-04):

• A Network is composed of coordinating Actors.
• Actors are autonomous and self-governing individual humans, or groups of humans.
• Actors publish statements of Purpose and Principles. They write their own statements or declare agreement with those of another Actor.
• Actors Federate:
  • Actors communicate about their Purpose and Projects, and the statuses thereof, in simple formats defined by the Network.
  • Actors make Commitments with other Actors and strive to keep them.
  • Actors request guidance from other Actors when they want to coordinate or overcome blocks to progress.
  • Actors are willing to be listed in the Network's directories.