Hi! My name is Michiel, I originally founded Unhosted, about three months ago. One important thing for you to understand about Unhosted is that there is hardly any code (yet), and although there are a few proof-of-concept applications that use unhosted technology, these are not real-world / live / production websites. We hope to create and convert websites to unhosted architectures during the course of 2011, but as yet this project has only about 2 man-months of work done on it. So very early days.
Also, I must warn that despite what many people seem to associate it with, unhosted is a project that aims to break web2.0's monopolies by giving open-source websites certain scalability techniques (so that they only have to publish their source code and don't need to supply so much server power). it is not at all about providing anonymity (nor to the publisher, nor to the viewer) On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been looking through the site and wiki for Unhosted: > http://www.unhosted.org/ > https://github.com/michiel-unhosted/unhosted > > and comparing the desired decentralization goals with that of Freenet: > http://freenetproject.org/ > > I wonder if these two projects are not links in the same chain for > higher availability complex behavior in anonymous browsing and > small-world networks? > I'm sure there are things we can complement! Please explore these, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have about what unhosted is planning to do, and also to change course on things if that makes more sense given what you are doing. You are the existing project, and we are the new guys, so we are the ones who should refrain from reinventing the wheel if we are investigating similar things. As for the details of the rest of your post, I must admit I don't understand it very well. I thought freenode was a way to make sure "no one knows you're writing" instead of as you say "no one knows you're reading". or maybe it automatically is both? Can you elaborate a bit on the change that is happening in freenet towards 'formatting the data'? What unhosted does is propose a list of per-user resource protocols, and a list of discovery mechanisms for them. for now, we propose a simplistic 'SET/GET' KeyValue protocol, and a simplistic 'SEND/RECEIVE' MessageQueues protocol (so two modules so far). Discovery mechanisms so far we have only one, which is WebFinger-based. Since unhosted is a focus on per-user resources, and freenet is a focus on anonymized resources, maybe the two are even opposite in that sense if you know what i mean. But they can coincide if we talk about 'per-nick resources' instead of per-user, where the link between nick and physical person stays secret. This immediately breaks down however if you would have to identify yourself on a traditional website using your supposedly anonymous nick. Unhosted is essentially in-browser. I heard of an in-browser anonymity network called Veiled. Maybe they are more interesting to you than we are. Anyway, I'm available for whatever you need from me. Cheers! Michiel www.unhosted.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110114/1f04f31e/attachment.html>
