[Freedombox-discuss] fully-decentralised forums
On 14 September 2011 11:14, Thomas Ruddy <thomas at thomasruddy.org> wrote:
> Someone below known as DrBob or Mark,
>
> You asked:
>>Which other systems provide fully-decentralised forums?
>
> "Decentralised can imply "distributed" or "federated". A list of applications that have support, or plan to implement support, for federation (interoperability) are distinguished from distributed ones here,
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> http://we-need-a-free-and-open-social-network.wikispaces.com/Information+Center
Nice list.
Dont forget. When you hyperlinks from one system to another (as you
just did in your post above) then you are already
federated/interoperable (in this case via HTTP GET).
This was the foundational principle of The Web, and probably the main
reason that it became popular.
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> Thomas
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> Thomas Ruddy, Switzerland, Privacy in E-Governance http://www.thomasruddy.eu
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> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:07:12 +0100
> From: drbob <drbob at lunamutt.com>
> To: freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Is FreedomBox interested in using
> ? ?Retroshare?
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> I thought the point of freedombox was to provide privacy and control of your data?
> This is exactly what Retroshare tries to do - in a fully decentralised manner ;)
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> I'd rather not just focus on file-sharing features either...
> Which other systems provide fully-decentralised forums?
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> ------
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> Marc, if you are interested in anonymity... Retroshare provides strong anonymity.
> Certainly better than bittorrent or other file-sharing networks like Mute.
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> The key is to build a trusted link-level network on which the file-sharing can take place.
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> We use the "Turtle" protocol - developed by Tanenbaum's group from the Vrije University.
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> Here is a link to an academic paper describing the "Strong Anonymity" features of Turtle:
> http://www.turtle4privacy.org/documents/sec_prot04.pdf
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> and the wikipedia page on Turtle:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_F2F
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>
> Mark.
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