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Ghost Keys: Building Cypherpunk Reputation Systems with Ian Clarke of Freenet(youtube.com)
4 points by sanity 2y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: Freenet Ghost Keys: Anonymous, Verifiable Identities(freenet.org)
6 points by sanity 2y ago|1 comments
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by sanity 2y ago
For what actually happened see the Freenet FAQ: https://freenet.org/faq#faq-5
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by sanity 2y ago
We're planning a reputation system based on the idea of "web of trust" that should ensure you don't get exposed to anything you don't want to be. It's based on a system[1] by the same name in the original Freen
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by sanity 2y ago
Anonymous libel does little damage because it has no credibility.
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by sanity 2y ago
cargo install freenet will work but not yet.
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by sanity 2y ago
No design fleshed out at this point but algorithms like mixnet and dining cryptographers should be implementable on Freenet's primitives (if not we'll improve the primitives).
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by sanity 2y ago
Just a note that this link is not by a Freenet developer.
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by sanity 2y ago
That video is from last September, this video is intended to compliment it. Both are worth watching, there shouldn't be too much overlap.
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by sanity 2y ago
Borg reference (decentralized architecture), and Latin "speaker" - but Locutus was just a working title for what's now called Freenet.
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by sanity 2y ago
Right now we're mostly trying to talk to software developers about building on Freenet or contributing to the project. Mass market comes later.
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by sanity 2y ago
Note that the linked video is about a complete redesign of Freenet, see https://freenet.org/faq#faq-3
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by sanity 2y ago
The rebrand/redesign is explained here: https://freenet.org/faq#faq-4
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Freenet 2024 – a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web [video](youtube.com)
109 points by sanity 2y ago|93 comments
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by sanity 2y ago
Same thing.
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by sanity 2y ago
I summarize here [1], you can find more context here [2], and learn more about the differences here [3]. For a detailed explanation of the new design see the video talk above. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4048374
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by sanity 2y ago
Nothing has been destroyed—Hyphanet is still available at https://hyphanet.org/ . Freenet's most remarkable feature is its use of a small-world network to achieve decentralization; anonymity systems weren't new eve
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by sanity 2y ago
Yes, I didn't expect you to change your mind, and I haven't changed mine either.
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by sanity 2y ago
The confusion is a risk but I think it will diminish over time, particularly once we launch the new network.
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by sanity 2y ago
I'm sorry to hear that you feel this way, but I need to correct some inaccuracies in your comment. The decision to rebrand Locutus as Freenet 2023 was not made lightly or without discussion. On the contrary, I had an extensive discussi
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by sanity 2y ago
Freenet side-steps this problem because it is more of a communication medium than a storage medium. It also isn't optimized for the distribution of large files that are the most likely to pose copyright issues. It's not a substitu
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by sanity 2y ago
Yes, it reminds me that apparently email in the 1970s didn't even bother with passwords - everyone just had an inbox file that was publicly readable/writable. How times have changed.
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by sanity 2y ago
Crypto is mostly about building global decentralized ledgers, think of Freenet as a much more general global decentralized computer. I suggest watching the video if you can.
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by sanity 2y ago
> Using hash-of-validation-WASM as a state key is a really cool idea and I'm excited to see how it goes operationally. Thank you :) > Using (blinded) proof of donation as an anti-abuse signal is a clever band-aid but seems fraugh
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by sanity 2y ago
Thank you. I agree about needing more practical examples. We are working on this, we do have a simple email app [1] and recently completed a more "hello world" type example freenet-ping [2]. Right now our focus is on getting the n
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by sanity 2y ago
IPFS and Freenet employ fundamentally different approaches, so comparing them isn't quite valid. With Freenet, there is no need to build separate sub-communities or worry about plugins, patches, etc. Freenet is designed to facilitate t
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by sanity 2y ago
It's always tricky to do head-to-head comparisons as there is so much detail with these projects. Freenet is designed to be a complete drop-in replacement for the world wide web, handling the discovery, distribution, and execution of a
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by sanity 2y ago
The new version will offer a choice of approaches to anonymity. I wouldn't call it a mess but there is 25 years of history to the project which does inevitably lead to some complexity. I summarize the naming situation here [1] [1] htt
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by sanity 2y ago
Freenet is free as in free speech, not free beer. The goal is to provide a platform that allows people to build sophisticated decentralized systems to replace today's centralized systems. The original Freenet architecture wasn't f
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by sanity 2y ago
> I wonder why this choice was made. Because it's a better architecture. There are numerous different approaches to anonymity, each with different pros and cons (mixnets, dining cryptographers, etc). It's better to have a syste

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