Major projects

While all our code is open source, we're focusing hard on a few key development projects at the moment.

Currently we are working on the following major projects:

• Orbiter: An implementation of Riff.CC's Defederation protocol that allows you to browse, stream, share, edit and curate information, culture and media across an opt-in federated network. Take Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, make them distributed and align the incentives and you get Orbiter.
• Lis: An experimental distributed filesystem with intriguing properties, built to suit the needs of the Riff project and use cases that help support free information.
• Starmap: Coming Soon: A live map of the public network of Defederation sites, showing the relationships between them and the world that they form.
• Open: social and technical protocols for an open society powered by voluntary change and incentive alignment, based on Defederation
• Recurso: Lis in a weirder world. Written in Python, it serves to help us develop features experimentally and then work out how Lis development should work.

We also have an infrastructure initiative:

• Riff Labs Perth
• Riff Labs London
• Riff Labs New York

We maintain three independent physical sites (two of them run by friends of the project) with the intent of building out a solid base for people to do open source content distribution and curation.

We are exploring plans for labs in São Paulo and Lima to expand our footprint and really polish our multi-region efforts.

Our infrastructure-as-code to run all three sites is open source and available on GitHub, with as much as we're possibly able to share in it. We do need to push recent updates to it, so apologies for the dust, but if you're really curious and insist, you can see it here.