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The new Freenet will support the creation of anonymity systems as services on top of it, which is much better architecturally than tying the platform to one app
by sanity 5mo ago
The new Freenet will support the creation of anonymity systems as services on top of it, which is much better architecturally than tying the platform to one approach to anonymity as I did when I designed the original Freenet.
We will also have a decentralized reputation system that will protect people from being exposed to unsavory or illegal content, a common criticism of the old Freenet architecture.
- serf 5mo agoless anonymity and a reputation system? I know you designed the thing, and that was a great effort, but what a miss when compared to the vast majority of freenet users priorities.
- sanity 5mo agoI wouldn't describe it as "less anonymity", it's more that the new Freenet gives applications and users different choices about anonymity depending on their requirements. I don't see how more choice is a bad thing - versus forcing the same (imperfect) solution on everyone as in my original design. Similarly, reputation systems aren't inherently coercive, they're more analogous to spam filtering or trust heuristics, mechanisms for deciding what to prioritize - but ultimate control always remains with the user.