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Freenet's Delta-Sync: Flexible, Efficient Incremental Updates(freenet.org)
4 points by sanity 2y ago|0 comments
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by sanity 2y ago
Mute and block are your friends.
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Show HN: Understanding small world networks with interactive simulations(freenet.org)
1 points by sanity 2y ago|0 comments
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Ghost Keys: Bootstrapping anonymous reputations using blind RSA signatures(freenet.org)
2 points by sanity 2y ago|0 comments
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by sanity 2y ago
Good question - computationally expensive contracts will be removed automatically as part of a mechanism that keeps track of cost/benefit to the peer for each contract.
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by sanity 2y ago
Yeah, there was a decent argument for Java in the early 2000s before it was obvious that Java would fail to gain traction on the desktop. Rust was the obvious choice when I started work on the new Freenet in 2019.
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by sanity 2y ago
Look under the video and you'll find links to the same video on Rumble and X, take your pick.
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by sanity 2y ago
Noted. It's true that there are a few projects using the name River - which is unsurprising for such a common word, but nothing with significant traction so far as I'm aware.
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by sanity 2y ago
We're working on a decentralized group chat app for Freenet called River[1]. We'll migrate our channel from Matrix to River once it's working reliably. [1] https://github.com/freenet/river/
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by sanity 2y ago
That's fair, in December last year we realized that we'd need to implement our own transport layer after discovering that the off-the-shelf library we planned to use wasn't flexible enough for our needs. But the new transport
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by sanity 2y ago
Eventually Freenet will work over mesh networks like Lora and 802.11ah - meaning it will be entirely decentralized including the communication infrastructure.
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by sanity 2y ago
"Damage" is misleading. A DDoS only harms when concentrated on a few peers. Freenet distributes load across the network, autoscaling in response to demand and preventing overload. As for bandwidth and storage, I think you’re refer
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by sanity 2y ago
It's a technical solution to a technical problem, that problem being the client-server architecture which inherently centralizes control and disempowers users. The Internet started out peer-to-peer, but client-server became dominant du
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by sanity 2y ago
The new Freenet is more of a communication than a storage medium which makes content moderation less of an issue, but we're planning to build a decentralized reputation system based on the idea of "web of trust" that should d
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by sanity 2y ago
Freenet and Hyphanet aren't blockchain, although the original Freenet did pioneer the cryptographic contract back in 2000 (we called them "signed subspace keys"), which a few years later would form the basis for Bitcoin. Free
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by sanity 2y ago
Agreed, 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
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by sanity 2y ago
Theoretically you can run a web server at home but you'll have a problem if you start to get a lot of traffic or you have trouble with your internet connection. Your website will be trivially easy to DDoS. Services you create on Freene
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by sanity 2y ago
On Freenet you own things cryptographically, typically by possessing a private key. This is similar to a Bitcoin wallet although Freenet isn't a cryptocurrency, it's a general-purpose platform for building and distributing scalabl
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by sanity 2y ago
We haven't launched yet but we're very[1] close, hopefully just days away as we tie up loose ends. This[2] diagram hopefully gives a big-picture view of where Freenet fits in. You install the Freenet software (which is tiny, less
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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 bittorr
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by sanity 2y ago
The new Freenet (formerly Locutus) is more of a communication than a storage medium, which should make it less susceptible to the kind of problems you're referring to. That said, even on Hyphanet you really need to look for something
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by sanity 2y ago
> I will admit that I didn't follow the renaming or possibly forking or whatever happened to freenet / hyphanet / etc back last when I was reading about this. If someone could explain it clearly that would be stellar. The
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by sanity 2y ago
Hi, Freenet's FAQ explains the renaming/rebranding here: [1] Neither version of Freenet is designed for long-term archiving of large amounts of data so it probably isn't ideally suited to replacing archive.org, but we are pla
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by sanity 2y ago
That's here: https://github.com/freenet/freenet-core Anything under "hyphanet" belongs to the old Java version, see https://freenet.org/ for the new version.
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by sanity 2y ago
True, although that's probably the least significant of the changes, it's a very different architecture with very different capabilities.
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by sanity 2y ago
This is inaccurate, Freenet has very little to do with blockchain/cryptocurrency and it's not "paid" - it's 100% open source like previous versions of Freenet. You may be thinking of "ghost keys" which are
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by sanity 2y ago
You can find a comparison here: https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-ver...
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by sanity 2y ago
You can find a comparison here: https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-ver...
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by sanity 2y ago
Did you read the introductory article[1] about ghost keys? Ghost key verification is decentralized, they are created centrally but anonymously (relying on the well-established RSA blind signature algorithm[2]). We also have a novel proposal
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by sanity 2y ago
It's disappointing to see you dismiss Ghost Keys without understanding their purpose. To clarify, Ghost Keys are not cryptotokens or a Web3.0 gimmick. They have a specific function: enabling anonymous, verifiable identities that can&#x

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