Swarm is a decentralized storage and communication network originally designed as part of the Ethereum ecosystem.
Its aim is to help create a sovereign and peer-to-peer web where people and communities can publish, communicate, and preserve information without depending on centralized platforms.
Swarm combines: - distributed storage, - peer-to-peer networking, - mutable feeds, - incentives for persistence, - and decentralized application hosting. Rather than treating the web as a collection of corporate platforms, Swarm treats the web as shared infrastructure maintained collectively by participants.
The project is strongly connected to ideas of: - digital sovereignty, - censorship resistance, - protocol commons, - permanent cultural memory, - and the decentralized web. For Hitchhikers Earth, Swarm represents infrastructure for the Permanent Web: - citizen assembly dialogues, - federated storytelling, - Anarchive, - Story Stones, - and collective memory systems that can persist beyond individual institutions or platforms.
# See - Book of Swarm - Permanent Web - Anarchive and Swarm SWOT - Decentralized Web - Federated Wiki - Protocol Commons