buildtall.systems
Building decentralized futures
Tools and patterns for the data sovereign.
Tools
DRSS
Bridge RSS feeds to Nostr. Your blog becomes kind 30023 events, addressable by npub, living on relays you choose.
drss.io →npub.dev
Configure your NIP-65 relay list. Client-side only, authenticate with NIP-07 or NIP-46, no server touches your keys.
npub.dev →List of Lists
Manage your kind 30101 lists, DRSS feeds, follows, relays, bookmarks. Your curation, your data, portable across clients.
listoflists.lol →Blog
Long-form writing on sovereignty, protocols, and the tools we build. Published to Nostr, rendered from relays.
/blog →Why "buildtall"?
In Tetris, there's a strategy: leave one column empty, let the blocks pile up, wait for the long piece. When it comes, you clear four rows at once.
This is the meaning of low time preference. Sacrifice immediate small gains, clearing single rows, for larger future payoffs. You accept present danger for compounding returns. You play a longer game.
In the realm of data sovereignty, that means: protocols over platforms, standards over shortcuts, responsibility and ownership over ease and popularity. Infrastructure that compounds over deep time. The blocks pile up. We're building tall.
How We Build
Commons-Based Production
Open protocols where no single entity controls access. The material means of information production belong to users, not platforms.
Tools You Dwell In
Your relationship with software is personal. You dwell in your tools, making them extensions of your practice. Your configurations embody tacit knowledge.
buildtall.systems is about sovereign information flows for humans, achieved through the integration of:
- Cryptographic identity and protocols
- Local-first data sovereignty
- Value-for-value economics
- Stigmergic coordination, emergent order through environmental traces
- Elegant compression of complexity, beautiful, learnable design
This integration creates systems that structurally resist enclosure, monopolization, rent-seeking, and enshittification.
Why It Matters
The material means of information production are now in the hands of billions: your device, your network connection, your computing power. The question is whether we build commons-based systems with symmetric access, or recreate the old asymmetries through proprietary control.
Protocol-level infrastructure offers something different: no CEO, no board, no platform risk. Systems where freedom doesn't require anyone's permission.