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? The goal of unhosted, as I read it (apologies for my limited interpretation) is to create scalable apps with low intensity on the server side and forcing data processing back to the client by adding a number of new types of interactions. The goal of Freenet is "no one knows your reading". I wonder if the creation of complex applications in the unhosted realm could be part of what is missing within Freenet? Could Freent benefit from integrating "hook" support for data objects that can be executed using an app/module from the unhosted network? As an example, Freenet might then serve as an easy interface for a user to format data to be access with the help of these scalable applications, which, over time, could become more and more trusted? About the trust part, I mean that I imagine that there are several goals here, and that while these applications and this infrastructure may not now currently support the goal of "no one knows your reading" perhaps this could serve as a banner under which to draw the two services together over time so they work better, each on their own, and in tandem, so that people can browse information freely? The Unhosted project doesn't seem concerned with the storage of data. It is concerned with the storage of applications for widespread use. Freenet, however, is concerned with data. One issue for Unhosted is that users will need to properly format data for processing by apps/module within the Unhosted network. There seems to be a change happening in the Freenet network towards the formatting of data. This could be said to be one outcome of the addition of chat into the network, and especially with regards to the utility of an app like Frost that is heavy with resource keys posted to bulleting boards supported within the application. Is this not a sort of "formatting of data" in the sense of making resource keys available to people so that they can use the tools to access the resources? Perhaps I am pushing it a bit far, but, it seems to me that before Unhosted goes so far as to create some other app/desktop based formatter or data collection/formatting utility that Freenode might be a place to look for this. -- Alex werk: http://commoning.net me: http://alexrollin.com mob: +31 (0) 6 31 56 96 88 ?It?s no longer possible for a country to collapse in isolation. Now we all collapse. ?The only path to stability is to equalize the consumption rates of the first and developing world. Our dream is no longer possible in the new world.? - Jared Diamond
