Moss

Aplicación Descentralizada Extensible

Composable peer-to-peer groupware built on Holochain enabling small teams to create collaboration spaces by assembling custom Tool suites from an open library. Each group and each Tool within it forms its own private P2P network. Users select from a community-built library of collaboration tools — cross-group chat (Vines), collaborative notebooks, video calls, project management (Acorn), value tracking (Unyt), alignment and convergence (Converge), spatial mapping (Where), and more — composing them into unified group spaces. Formerly called 'We'; evolved into The Weave framework with Moss as its reference implementation.

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Licencia Open source (CAL-1.0 — Cryptographic Autonomy License); https://github.com/lightningrodlabs/moss — Rust (Holochain zomes), TypeScript (UI)
Estado de Desarrollo 🔬 Beta
Detalle del Estado de Desarrollo Beta (group-onboarding beta; downloadable releases available for macOS, Windows, Linux; Early Movers Collective program; active development; used for internal dogfooding)
Propietario Lightningrod Labs (founded by Eric Harris-Braun, co-founder of Holochain and MetaCurrency Project); Harris-Braun Enterprises LLC (copyright holder); development with Guillem Cordoba and Viktor Zaunders at darksoil studio
Órgano de Gobierno Company-controlled (Lightningrod Labs / Harris-Braun Enterprises LLC)
País USA (Eric Harris-Braun; Lightningrod Labs)
Año de Inicio 2022
Stack Holochain (Rust zomes for backend DNAs); TypeScript/JavaScript (UI framework); Syn library (real-time collaborative editing via CRDTs on Holochain); Tauri (desktop app packaging); Nix (dev environment via Holonix); Excalidraw (integrated in Slate drawing tool)
Financiamiento Holochain Foundation ecosystem (Lightningrod Labs as development entity; Harris-Braun Enterprises; darksoil studio collaboration; Holochain Foundation support)
Última Investigación 1 jul 2026

Dominios de Caso de Uso

Co-creación y Conocimiento

Aplicación Descentralizada Extensible Atributos

Orígenes Collaborative groupware / Holochain ecosystem (Eric Harris-Braun's insight that when collaboration cost approaches zero, everything changes; designed as infrastructure for composable social spaces; evolved from earlier Lightningrod Labs experiments with Holochain hApps)
Base de Datos Holochain DHT (each group has its own DHT hosted on members' computers; each Tool creates additional private DHT; data distributed across group members with no central server)
Lenguaje de Consulta N/A (interaction via Tool-specific UIs; Weave Asset Locators (WALs) for cross-tool linking and discovery; no general query language)
Formatos de Datos Holochain entries and links (WASM-compiled zomes); Weave Asset Locators (WALs); msgpack (Holochain serialization); Tool-specific formats per applet
Edición Colaborativa en Vivo Yes (Syn library provides real-time collaborative editing; Notebooks tool enables simultaneous multi-user text editing; Slate enables collaborative drawing via Excalidraw + Syn)
Edición de Texto Enriquecido Yes (Notebooks tool provides rich text collaborative editing built on Syn real-time collaboration library)
Soporte Móvil Not yet (desktop-first via Tauri; Holochain mobile support emerging but Moss not yet confirmed on mobile)
Soporte Web No (Holochain apps run as local processes; no web-hosted version; each user runs their own node)
Aplicaciones Nativas Yes (desktop app via Tauri for macOS M-series and Intel, Windows, Linux AppImage and .deb; v0.15.3)
Términos Open source (CAL-1.0 — Cryptographic Autonomy License; free to use; no paid tiers)
Fondos Not separately disclosed (developed within Holochain ecosystem; no independent fundraising identified)
Basado En Holochain (P2P agent-centric framework); Syn (real-time collaboration CRDT library for Holochain); Excalidraw (drawing canvas in Slate); Tauri (desktop app framework); MetaCurrency Project (philosophical underpinning); REA/ValueFlows (economic flows via Unyt)
Herramientas de Desarrollo Holochain HDK (Rust-based Holochain Development Kit for writing zomes); hc CLI (Holochain developer CLI); Holonix (Nix-based dev environment); Weave Tool API (TypeScript interface for Tool integration); Syn library (real-time CRDT collaboration); WAL system (Weave Asset Locators for cross-tool linking); DevHub (Tool publishing infrastructure)
Opciones de Despliegue Desktop self-hosted (each user runs their own Holochain node via Tauri desktop app; no server deployment required; groups form P2P networks across members' machines)
Autenticación e Identidad Cryptographic keypair / Holochain agent identity (each user has a unique agent keypair generated locally; identity is self-sovereign and not tied to any server or registrar; no OAuth or custodial account)
Modelo de Almacenamiento Local-first distributed (each user's data stored on their own device in their Holochain source chain; group data replicated across DHT hosted by group members; no cloud storage; data persists independently of any central server)
Interoperabilidad Holochain ecosystem interoperability via Weave Interaction Pattern (open standard enabling any Holochain hApp to become a Weave Tool); WAL (Weave Asset Locators) for cross-tool content linking; REA/ValueFlows ontology via Unyt; open Tool Library for cross-group tool sharing
Grafo Social Yes (each group has a social graph of members; cross-group connections via Vines cross-group chat; agent identity is persistent across groups)
Categoría de Caso de Uso Composable groupware / collaboration platform (teams assemble custom tool suites for their specific needs)
Tipo de Interfaz de Usuario Desktop app (Slack/Discord-like layout: left sidebar for groups, secondary bar for Tools, main window for active Tool UI; bento-box composability metaphor)
Capacidades sin Conexión Yes (Holochain local-first architecture; data stored on user's device; works without internet once peers have synced; DHT provides eventual consistency)
Funciones de Colaboración Extensive (real-time collaborative editing via Syn; cross-group chat via Vines; AI-free video calls; project management via Acorn; value tracking via Unyt; alignment/convergence via Converge; spatial mapping via Where; all composable into unified spaces)
Portabilidad de Datos Yes (Holochain agent-centric: users own their source chain data; Weave Interaction Pattern is an open standard; Tools can be mixed across groups; template sharing via public DHT library)
Ecosistema de Integraciones Holochain hApp ecosystem (any Holochain hApp can be compiled as a Weave Tool; open Tool Library; growing community library; Weave Interaction Pattern as open standard for cross-tool composition; WAL system for linking across Tools)
Exportación de Datos de Web2 No (Holochain-native ecosystem; no Web2 export mechanisms documented)
Coherencia Prosocial High (core design: empowered agency where individuals opt-in to group tools; no engagement metrics or attention capture; groups self-organize without external authority; collaborative tool selection by consent; open standard for social fabric composition)
Flujos Económicos Yes (Unyt tool provides professional-grade value tracking for businesses, communities, and peer-production networks; REA/ValueFlows economic event recording)
Gobernanza y Toma de Decisiones Group self-governance (each group creates its own private P2P network; members must opt-in to proposed Tools; no central authority; cheap group branching/forking; template sharing for replicable governance patterns)
Medios / Publicación Yes (Notebooks for collaborative document editing; Slate for visual media; template libraries shared via public DHT)
Gestión del Conocimiento Yes (Notebooks for collaborative knowledge documents; Converge for criteria refinement; Where for spatial knowledge mapping; cross-tool WAL linking creates knowledge graphs across Tools)
Sensemaking Yes (Converge/alignment tool for discovering shared criteria and dynamic alignment rather than simple voting; Where for group self-location across conceptual spaces; cross-tool composition enables complex sensemaking workflows)
Gestión de Proyectos Yes (Acorn — Holochain-based project management; outcome hierarchies with collaborative breakdown; completion tracking)
Modelo de Comunicación Multi-modal composable (Vines cross-group chat; Notebooks for long-form; Slate for visual; video calls; all within unified group context; Weave Interaction Pattern enables cross-tool references)
Resiliencia de Red High (Holochain P2P: each group is its own network; no central servers; data replicated across group members; groups are independent — one group's failure doesn't affect others)
Mecanismo de Descubrimiento Tool library (public DHT-hosted Tool library where developers publish and users browse; group invitations; DevHub for developer publishing; template sharing for pre-configured tool combinations)
Participantes Máximos Group-sized (designed for small collaborative work groups; Holochain DHT scales with group size; multiple independent groups can exist; each group is its own network)
Soberanía de Datos Full (Holochain agent-centric: each user's data on their own source chain; each group's DHT hosted on members' own computers; no cloud dependency; CAL-1.0 license ensures cryptographic autonomy; users control their own keys and data)