We offer case studies of the following decentralized publishing projects:

• Freedom Box, a system for personal publishing
• Diaspora, a federated social network
• Mastodon, a federated Twitter-like service
• Blockstack, a distributed system for online identity services
• IPFS (Interplanetary File System), a distributed storage service with a proposed mechanism to incentivize resource sharing
• Solid (Social Linked Data), a linked-data protocol that could act as a back-end for data sharing between social media networks
• Appcoins, a digital currency framework that enables users to financially participate in ownership of platforms and protocols
• Steemit, an online community that uses an appcoin to incentivize development and community participation in a social network