On 14 September 2011 11:14, Thomas Ruddy <[email protected]> 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, > > 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. > > Thomas > > Thomas Ruddy, Switzerland, Privacy in E-Governance http://www.thomasruddy.eu > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:07:12 +0100 > From: drbob <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Is FreedomBox interested in using > Retroshare? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > 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 > ;) > > I'd rather not just focus on file-sharing features either... > Which other systems provide fully-decentralised forums? > > ------ > > Marc, if you are interested in anonymity... Retroshare provides strong > anonymity. > Certainly better than bittorrent or other file-sharing networks like Mute. > > The key is to build a trusted link-level network on which the file-sharing > can take place. > > We use the "Turtle" protocol - developed by Tanenbaum's group from the Vrije > University. > > Here is a link to an academic paper describing the "Strong Anonymity" > features of Turtle: > http://www.turtle4privacy.org/documents/sec_prot04.pdf > > and the wikipedia page on Turtle: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_F2F > > > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
