Freenet build 1495 released: new user entrance, user experience, performance

Re:Freenet build 1495 released: new user entrance, user expe... by sanity31415 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:56PM (#34181949)

Napster wasn't decentralized, it relied on a centralized index which is why it was shut down. Gnutella relied on a broadcast search which didn't scale. Freenet's use of small world routing to be both decentralized and scalable was unique, as was it's use of cryptographic contracts (signed subspace keys).

That paper isn't the original Freenet paper, it came later. This is the original: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Distributed-Decentra...

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Re:Freenet build 1495 released: new user entrance, user expe... by ArneBab on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:40AM (#34182528)

Gnutella moved from broadcast to dynamically structured search early on (in version 0.6, 2002). See https://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/src/rfc-0_6-draft.html

Including decentralized download via HTTP using just three added headers and Tiger Tree Hash Exchange: https://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/src/Partial_File_Sharin...

Scalability was limited to global search in around 5 million nodes (with the network spanning 40 million people at its peak), though, due to restrictions in the number of TCP connections Windows (private edition) supported.

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Re:Freenet build 1495 released: new user entrance, user expe... by notacoward on Friday December 30, 2022 @09:20AM (#34185205)

Flagged as a (rather obvious) dup account to get around what appears to be a shadowbanned s4n1ty who had just made the exact same comment.

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Re:Freenet build 1495 released: new user entrance, user expe... by kbelder on Friday December 30, 2022 @05:15PM (#34190724)

Can't blame somebody for that; shadowbans are repulsive.

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