For those that appear to be craving a "bold new strategy", one thing I've
proposed in the past would be to put the main Freenet codebase in
"maintenance mode", and throw our resources behind http://tahrirproject.org/
(possibly renaming it "Freenet 2" since Tahrir is a terrible name).
Tahrir addresses several key concerns:
- The people we actually want to help, those in China, Iran, etc, often
have very constrained bandwidth. Tahrir is designed for this, Freenet is a
bandwidth hog
- Tahrir is designed for a Twitter/Facebook type use-case
("microblogging"), which has proven very powerful in terms of promoting
political change
- It's a fresh-ish codebase, much smaller, although needs some cobwebs
blown off
- Can incorporate a mixnet, but actually better suited to a mixnet than
Tor because latency is less of an issue
Clearly, this would not be a direct successor to Freenet, it would not be
backwards compatible, and would be designed for a different (but perhaps
more current) use-case.
Thoughts?
Ian.
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