Weigh in on the Desirable Properties
Tell us what we missed. Then open the Desirable Properties tab, follow one interest, and leave a specific patch idea if the text is wrong or incomplete.
These directions are generated from Project Liberty'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.
DP2 · hypothesis
Participant Agency and Empowerment
Your stated mission ("Restore agency in the digital age by giving people ownership and control of their personal data.") sits next to DP2's human issue: Algorithms controlling what you see. Guiding question: How do we ensure people stay in control of their digital lives?
Direction to explore
Does Project Liberty's agency claim stop at data export, or does it include control of attention and presence?
Candidate patch idea
Add that portable social graphs and presence settings are required expressions of participant agency, not optional app features.
DP4 · hypothesis
Data Sovereignty and Privacy
Your stated mission ("Restore agency in the digital age by giving people ownership and control of their personal data.") sits next to DP4's human issue: Companies own your data. Guiding question: Who should own your data?
Direction to explore
Where does Project Liberty'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.
DP20 · hypothesis
Community Ownership
Your stated mission ("Restore agency in the digital age by giving people ownership and control of their personal data.") 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 Project Liberty'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.
DP8 · hypothesis
Collaborative Environment and Meta-Communities
Your stated mission ("Restore agency in the digital age by giving people ownership and control of their personal data.") sits next to DP8's human issue: Online communities constantly restart. Guiding question: How do communities persist beyond platforms?
Direction to explore
How do Alliance members share a collaboration space without collapsing into one platform community?
Candidate patch idea
Define meta-communities as optional shared rooms with explicit consent, not an ambient social network that harvests the Alliance listserv.
DP7 · hypothesis
Simplicity and Interoperability
Your stated mission ("Restore agency in the digital age by giving people ownership and control of their personal data.") sits next to DP7's human issue: Too many disconnected apps. Guiding question: How do we connect the web without forcing people into yet another app?
Direction to explore
What must stay simple so Project Liberty's protocol work can interoperate with other Alliance layers?
Candidate patch idea
Require a documented bridge and export path between protocol identities and Overweb / layer identities.
