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IPFS InterPlanetary File System. hash-addressed storage in a peer-to-peer network. Content addressing is the big little idea behind IPFS. With content addressing (CIDs), you ask for a file using a hash of its contents. It doesn't matter where the file lives. Anyone in the network can serve that content.
IPLD InterPlanetary Linked Data. IPLD is a single namespace for all hash-inspired protocols. Through IPLD, links can be traversed across protocols, allowing you to explore data regardless of the underlying protocol.
Sphere A Sphere is essentially a data structure for trivially associating names with content in a manner that is coherent and scales nicely with IPLD. It is the root of a user's personal data in the Noosphere.
petname A petname system works like the address book on your phone. Instead of a global name system, you keep a personal address book that maps meaningful names to secure-decentralized addresses. Enables users to write human-readable names instead of DIDs when addressing other spheres.
geist German for ghost. robots that crawl the web of thoughts, mixing and combining them into new ones, surfacing relevant ideas.
Subtext A block-based, plain text format that is like a simpler form of markdown; it is the native format of Subconscious. https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/subtext
Supertext working name for a file format that contains a list of links to other content - which, when rendered, consists entirely of transclusions.
transclusion content that's embedded into a note by a link
Subconscious a social notetaking app built on Noosphere. not public yet.
Noosphere "thought sphere". a protocol for thought. a massively-multiplayer knowledge graph. You can think of it like a world-wide Wiki. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oUunOtzj27JmCFAD5Qpt1EGKseUcTzk2xq3Aok0kDxk/edit?usp=sharing https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere
memo An envelope data structure that groups headers, content and a chronological history of revisions
block a line in a Subtext note - text, link, quote, list, header, etc