Seasteading Basics
Here on Nostr I expect we'll see a new generation of people interested in Seasteading for the 1st time, most of which will have no idea what resources are out there or what has come before. This thread will serve as a starting point to find these resources.
I have been collecting links & news about seasteading projects since 2010, back when the only place to talk about the subject was a phpbb forum run by the Seasteading Institute at http://seasteading.org. The forum is gone now but the community remains in various places like reddit, youtube, & now here.
The Institute has supported many different projects over the years, all with various levels of funding, purpose, & vision. We've seen many false starts, but now we see a limited amount of commercial success from construction projects like: Ocean Builders: https://oceanbuilders.com & ArkTide: https://www.arktide.org
Of course, those projects exist to solve the engineering problems with seasteading, and are not intended to produce a full-scale colony out in the deep sea any day soon. Many more problems have to be solved for us to make it out there, including governance, (or a stable lack thereof) power generation, (see my OTEC post) funding, & security.
Two separate projects called Freedom Haven (https://freedomhaven.org) and Atlas Island (https://atlasisland.org) are attempts to go further with a real seastead, but haven't made any material progress yet past planning stages. They also have differing visions for how to govern their projects.
One thing that has been done very well in the community so far is education. Specifically, the Seasteading Institute (under the direction of Joe Quirk) produced a series of video Q&As answering all of the beginner questions people have about seasteading. Starting about 6 years ago, these great little videos can be found on their youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@seasteading/videos
Some of the most asked questions there:
What about waves?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9QdEN0iS9Q
Why not just live on a Boat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfTeDe-C8bo
Is Seasteading only for the rich?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyQqehCPzGU
How do we Govern a seastead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_lcnD0mkPE
What about Pirates?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PLUZ9bzUGY
Where does the Poop go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2FCpU5wu8
If you're at all curious about seasteading, I suggest you go to their channel and binge-watch them all. And then be sure to subscribe here in Nostr to /n/seasteading to keep up with the conversation here.