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Overview

When a new computing platform starts to populate with content, it becomes difficult to maintain a fair way to manage and promote app discovery. A few frequently visited or highly promoted surfaces will begin to aggregate content according to a certain standard, or a particular goal or narrative. This unfortunately leaves out and ignores apps that do not fit a specific direction or fail to meet a set of policies and regulations. This has an unintended consequence of eventually decreasing the diversity of apps and inhibiting ecosystem growth.

We propose an infrastructure for a more open spatial internet, called the Distributed Spatial Internet Graph (DSIG).

DSIG aims to achieve three goals:

  1. Create accurate consensus on reputable spatial web apps and their metadata
  2. Promote the discovery/distribution of new and interesting spatial web apps
  3. Increase open content aggregation and transparent curation

Along with these goals, we want to ensure that directories created using DSIG are used frequently and that it’s worthwhile to have a spatial web app be indexed by DSIG. Zesty will be integrating DSIG tightly into the existing Zesty ads-sdk, which as of September 25, 2024 is loaded by approximately 200,000 unique users per month. We believe this provides a good foundation to get over the cold-start problem.

Architecturally, the DSIG consists of two main components; relays and beacons.