I've said a lot, there's more that can be said, but instead I'll switch to the ask.

Does the above resonate with you? @spritelyinst.bsky.social could really, truly use your help.

Consider donating. I promise we'll put it to good use. spritely.institute/donate/

Let's build a better internet! 💜

But what does it mean for systems to be social? Here's something you can't do on either ActivityPub or ATProto, but is a demo we built with Goblins and OCapN: a collaborative farming game! spritely.institute/news/goblinv...

And we're still building key infrastructure. Goblins recently got a major upgrade to its persistence system: spritely.institute/news/spritel...

And it's about to get another one. Not really yet announced, but we're working on a hot-cache system that loads actors from store on demand. It's neat!

We also recently put out a blogpost and demo of a chat system that *nobody* centrally hosts called "Brassica Chat" spritely.institute/news/composi...

You can try on it on the page. It's a demo, but it's a step towards secure communication for a hostile world.

We're big believers in having tangible examples of tech so people can understand and it's not just vaporware. Sometimes that's challenging to do with low-level tech in development. But games are a great way to show things off!

Unusually, Spritely has a whole arcade page! spritely.institute/arcade/

We're building cool tech:
- Goblins, p2p distributed programming: spritely.institute/goblins/
- Hoot, a WebAssembly toolkit (and Scheme->WASM compiler) spritely.institute/hoot/
- OCapN, a secure distributed p2p networked protocol ocapn.org

But... what are we *doing* with these things?

User-empowering technology is a lot of work, corporations aren't motivated to build it. We need research and development of new tech that changes the game from an org that isn't bound by pushing profit.

And that's why @spritelyinst.bsky.social is a nonprofit research lab.

So... what are we doing?

I love computers. When people say "Computers were a mistake!" it makes me sad.

But it's had to blame people. The direction computers have gone in, the experience people largely have had, is a loss of agency and empowerment.

How do we bring that back, and do better than ever even?

What can we do? Is there hope? Is it possible to build something better?

Spritely was born out of this work, and the strive to create infrastructure allowing for "Networks of Consent". More on that here: spui25.nl/programma/we...

*None* of the decentralized social networks today are robust enough to handle threats facing vulnerable people and activists today. Not the fediverse, not Bluesky/ATProto. What to do?

(Here's a talk on that: "Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis" c-tube.c-base.org/w/f9pF5pwxX8... )

@spritelyinst.bsky.social is developing some damn cool tech: Distributed programming! Leading the way on a secure P2P protocol (OCapN)! A WebAssembly toolkit!

But: is "cool tech" what matters? *Why* are we trying to make cool tech? What are the *social implications* of making this technology?

We say "Scheme to WASM compiler" but actually Hoot is a lot more than that, it's a dang cool entire Webassembly toolkit. But you know, sometimes easier to simplify your messaging a bit :)