Weigh in on the Desirable Properties
Point us at papers, hearings, and protocol notes we should treat as corpus. Then weigh in on the DPs below, especially where civic memory, transparency, and community AI governance are still too thin.
These directions are generated from Project Liberty Institute's public corpus, not from private landing pads. Each one is a hypothesis. Follow the interest that feels like your work. The Hermes prompt and Discuss link are real contribution paths, not a brochure.
DP10 · hypothesis
Education
Your stated mission ("Advance research, policy engagement, and stewardship of open-source initiatives including the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), in collaboration with academic institutions.") sits next to DP10's human issue: Information overload. Guiding question: How do we learn continuously without drowning in fragmented information?
Direction to explore
What should researchers and fellows be invited to teach or contest in the DP corpus?
Candidate patch idea
Add that educational onboarding must show the live patch trail, not only a finished property statement.
DP14 · hypothesis
Trust and Transparency
Your stated mission ("Advance research, policy engagement, and stewardship of open-source initiatives including the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), in collaboration with academic institutions.") sits next to DP14's human issue: Misinformation, propaganda, and deepfakes. Guiding question: How do we rebuild trust in an AI-powered Internet?
Direction to explore
How should the Institute show when Hermes inferred from public pages versus when a human confirmed?
Candidate patch idea
Require provenance on AI-assisted governance artifacts: source URLs, confirmations, and remaining hypotheses.
DP22 · hypothesis
Civic Memory & Epistemic Continuity
Your stated mission ("Advance research, policy engagement, and stewardship of open-source initiatives including the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), in collaboration with academic institutions.") sits next to DP22's human issue: Society keeps repeating the same debates. Guiding question: How do we preserve collective understanding without creating centralized truth?
Direction to explore
What civic memory should Alliance research leave so later members can see why a property changed?
Candidate patch idea
Require that contested summaries of Alliance public work remain linked to original-language sources.
DP12 · hypothesis
Community-based AI Governance
Your stated mission ("Advance research, policy engagement, and stewardship of open-source initiatives including the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), in collaboration with academic institutions.") sits next to DP12's human issue: AI rules decided by companies. Guiding question: Who should decide how AI behaves in our communities?
Direction to explore
Who ratifies AI-assisted policy when Institute, Labs, and Alliance members disagree?
Candidate patch idea
Bound AI assistance so communities can reject a draft without losing the human deliberation record.
DP20 · hypothesis
Community Ownership
Your stated mission ("Advance research, policy engagement, and stewardship of open-source initiatives including the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), in collaboration with academic institutions.") sits next to DP20's human issue: Platforms own everything users create. Guiding question: Who should own the next layer of the Internet?
Direction to explore
This is the anti-capture test: can the Institute's coordination space stay owned by people if commercial players arrive later?
Candidate patch idea
Strengthen anti-capture language: community rules and exit rights are written before large commercial platforms are invited to play.
DP4 · hypothesis
Data Sovereignty and Privacy
Your stated mission ("Advance research, policy engagement, and stewardship of open-source initiatives including the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), in collaboration with academic institutions.") sits next to DP4's human issue: Companies own your data. Guiding question: Who should own your data?
Direction to explore
Where does the Institute's “people own their data” language need to become an enforceable affordance?
Candidate patch idea
Require that personal data created in a layer can leave with the person, including social graph, without a platform petition.
