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Locutus (now Freenet) is more of a communication than a storage medium. It's focused more on allowing people to build decentralized tools like group chat[1] for
by sanity 2y ago
Locutus (now Freenet) is more of a communication than a storage medium. It's focused more on allowing people to build decentralized tools like group chat[1] for realtime communication than be a content distribution network like bittorrent.
We're also planning a decentralized reputation system based on the concept of "web of trust" that should do at least as good a job of ensuring users aren't exposed to unwanted content like spam or worse.
[1] https://github.com/freenet/river https://github.com/freenet/river
- nanolith 2y agoThat is reassuring. I hope that your team can build this web of trust, because it really is crucial. It is great to have a tool that allows ideas to be shared, but I think that consent regarding which ideas are shared or promoted is important, not only from a legal perspective, but also from an ethical one.
- sanity 2y agoAgreed, any system that allows people to discover content needs to protect them from stuff they don't want to see, whether it's annoyances like spam, malicious attacks like DDoS, or extremely harmful content like CSAM. Centralized services don't do a great job of this but I think we can do better with a decentralized approach. We won't have a perfect solution overnight but we've already built important components of such a system (eg. ghost keys[1]). [1] https://freenet.org/news/introducing-ghost-keys/ https://freenet.org/news/introducing-ghost-keys/