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Fission announced last week that Fission is winding down.¹

But aside from a ventured-funded Canadian company, Fission is and always has been people.

The community of people exists around the Discord chat, the working groups around standards and protocols, the other protocol ecosystems like IPFS, Filecoin, CASA, the Protocol Labs Network, code repositories, events like Causal Islands and IPFS Connect, and endless more organizations and collaborators and gathering spaces.

[[Ryan Betts]] wrote this:

Imagine us individually as a swarm of bees, and Fission as a “human suit” that gives us the appearance of a single entity.

The swarm still exists. And will continue to find new forms.

Meanwhile, we’ll all still be doing whatever swarms of bees do.

-- depatchedmode

Fission as a company and a name went through a bunch of twists and turns, technically starting out as an open source project that [[Brooklyn Zelenka]] worked on in the Ethereum community. Yes, we've been attempting to build a world computer for a long time!

The registered name Fission Internet Software Services for InterOperable Networks Inc.² is of course a recursive acronmyn.

We ended up with fission.codes as the main domain. And with @FissionCodes as the Twitter handle. So people often called us "Fission Codes". Not wrong.

So: Fission's Idea Space: Shared Interest Organic Network