Minimum viable decentralization: how to build decentralized products that people actually use! Decentralization/anonymity come at a cost. People don't care unless there is real risk. Lessons from file sharing, anonymizers, darknet markets, and Reddit!https://medium.com/@jbackus/minimum-viable-decentralization-d813dcf653fc …
Yeah, I'm trying to opt out of Medium's paywall thing. If you view incognito it may work. Anonymity involves routing requests through multiple nodes which is slower than not. Tor already tries hard to minimize latency for sake of usability. Deep topic, read on I2P and Freenet
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If we started a fork of the internet from the ground up (is fork the right word?)... could we not engineer it to be anonymous without routing shenanigans? Sorry if I'm expecting you to know too many things.
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Well, no matter the architecture some machine has to ask some other machine for a file, right? Anonymizing is just distancing yourself from that request, which requires indirection. Basically, I don't think you can get around it.
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If all data was end-to-end encrypted and stored in shards, the nodes wouldn't know which data you request. All that is known is that you're using a network.
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Thanx BM. A shard is like, a fragment of a file?
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yes. There are many projects in that direction, also mentioned Freenet already worked that way. It was slow, but there is probably room for much improvement. Could even be more efficient than the client-server model as large files can be downloaded from multiple sources.
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