On Friday 08 June 2007 21:06, Jusa Saari wrote: > > Your point is that without a critical mass, Freenet is of limited > > usefulness- It's hard to FIND friends who use Freenet, which makes a > > global darknet difficult. This is also true. > > Of course, in order for you to have at least three friends (the minimum > number of connections to get an actual network and not just a > 1-dimensional node chain) out of your ten closest ones (tell to less close > friends you're running Freenet, and you're essentially running a public > node) about 3/10 of the population needs to be running Freenet. Somehow, I > doubt this is going to happen, even if the figure is adjusted for things > like people selecting like-minded friends.
Not true. There is absolutely nothing wrong with connecting to casual acquaintances. It will produce the correct topology, and it's much less dangerous than true opennet or #freenet-refs . > > I don't know that having this same discussion over and over will being up > > and new data, or sway anyone ;) > > Yes, you are likely to be correct. Unfortunately, this means that Freenet > will remain in obscurity with insignificant amount of users, since very > few people will jump through the hoops to get it up and running - and even > less people will spend the time to maintain it (by getting new connections > as the old ones go down), especially given the very limited content at the > time (mostly caused by those same insignificant user counts). Agreed with the first poster. However the tradeoff isn't that terrible - slightly more work for a much better initial connection, and if anyone you know IS on freenet already, big gains. > Oh well, I guess it's better this way; we wouldn't want various oppressive > regimens to think Freenet an actual threat to themselves and put a horse's > head into Matthew's bed, now would we ?-) We have good reason to believe that China has blocked Freenet 0.5's session bytes. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20070608/3830410c/attachment.pgp>
