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Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol


The Internet is decentralized by design. It came into being not at once, but in parts. New protocols were added on top of previous ones, but one crucial protocol is still missing.

In RSDS protocol DID public key is hosted on each domain and everyone is free to verify all the posts that were submitted to a decentralized system by that user. As the age of AI is upon us it is essential to have built in standards in social media that allow owner of the posts to specify the scope of content republishing and reproduction rights. There is no limit of what could be built on top of such a protocol, but the most important aspect of RSDS should be this: even without reader platforms it should be super easy to spin up an instance of the network node and start reading newest posts of your favorite content authors.

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