Spritely Institute is a research and development organization working on decentralized networking technology. Its stated goal is to enable social networks that respect user agency and community autonomy, drawing on the team’s experience co-authoring ActivityPub and on object capability security research. Rather than treating decentralization as a feature bolted onto existing platforms, the institute argues that current technical foundations are inadequate and pursues a multi-layer approach.
The technical stack centers on Goblins, a distributed programming environment designed to make capability-secure networked programs easier to write, and Hoot, a Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler. Together with projects like the Goblins-based Arcade and the Hoot-powered community forum, these components aim to give developers primitives for secure communication and object references across machines. The institute publishes news, maintains partner relationships, and hosts a public forum for discussion.
The work is aimed primarily at developers, researchers, and protocol designers interested in federated social systems, capability security, and Lisp-family languages. Community organizers and privacy-focused technologists may find the vision relevant, but the current output is infrastructure and code rather than end-user applications. Those wanting a ready-made social platform will not find one here yet.
For newcomers, the practical entry point is the project documentation and the public forum
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