Re: [Social-discuss] P2P or server approach?

[Melvin Carvalho]

2010/3/24 elijah <address@hidden>

On 03/24/2010 02:12 PM, Orton AKINCI aka .-_-. wrote:
> this system of wuala you mentioned looks like freenet's distributed storage system

As I understand it, the key differences are:

(1) there is very limited permissions in freenet (you can grant read
access by sharing the content hash key, but you cannot revoke or have
groups with read and write access to a resource). afaik.

(2) freenet is free software, wuala is proprietary. So, wuala sucks. The
only reason to talk about wuala is to help imagine what kind of
easy-to-use clients can be build (as Blaine said, in the far future).

On the topic of distributed storage systems and freenet, this is a very interesting high level talk form the co-founder of freenet

http://vimeo.com/6614042

He shares some of the lessons he learnt from freenet, and his new technical vision, swarm ... probably not something for GNU Social to leverage now, but I think good background material ...
 

-elijah