I think we should also pay attention to forums. Things like Twitter or Reddit are more transient and casual. Forums are much more suitable for serious...

@zxq9 Of course, I just like that they've integrated Tor and are working on the fingerprinting resistance. Despite some controversies, I hope it can b...

I think there's similar concept called Semantic Web. By the way, Tim Berners-Lee is working on another decentralization project called Solid.

Needs HTTPS though.

Although there has been some criticism, Brave is definitely heading in the right direction. It's good to have a privacy oriented competitor to Firefox...

Specialization Since there are many tasks which a server node (service node?) needs to perform, a node can further specializes in doing only one of ...

@zxq9 This is where game theory takes place. We've already increased the level of certainty with a simple mechanism and bad nodes need to be more ca...

@zxq9 What would be a problem with deleting, for example? We cannot guarantee that a node has actually deleted the chunks, but we can check if it stil...

@zxq9 There is also redundancy of behavior. A file is not stored on a single node, it's split in chunks and distributed among many nodes with som...

Trust As we've mentioned a server node can run modified software and not necessarily must behave as we expect. It can ignore requests, it can broadc...

@zxq9 There can be redundancy, check sums, signatures, verification mechanisms by nodes to check each other, some kind of web trust for server nodes...

I've just noticed it's becoming look like Plan 9.

Data structures A file is a sequence of bytes with some unique name (path, ID, address, URL) by which it can be efficiently retrieved from the syste...

Storing data A file is not necessarily should be stored as a whole on a server node, nor it should be stored on all server nodes. It can be split in...

@doctorajaykumar I divide the nodes into clients and servers. The server nodes are supposed to store and distribute the content with some level of...