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Freenet and File-Sharing (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Has anyone set up file-sharing, especially torrents or something similar, over freenet? It reminds me of reticulum in that it's supposedly decentralized, but it looks more technically developed (i.e. not written in python).

My understanding of torrents is that they go to tracker locations, which I don't really understand but seems like a centralized node of some sort. So, I assume torrents themselves can't be ran through freenet, but is there something analogous we should be looking at?

I apologize if this is a dumb question I don’t have much knowledge in this area. I just want to make sure I'm staying on top of the relevant technologies.

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[–] 6 points 3 months ago

I haven't used the new Freenet, but have messed around with Hyphanet. You simply just upload files to the network, announce that they are uploaded (by making a Freesite, making a post on Sone, and/or making a post on their forum application (I forget what it's called). Hyphanet is like a distributed file store that everyone can write to and read from. Kind of like an anonymized predecessor to IPFS. Large files will likely get evicted very fast, unless they are popular. And, it's slow as hell.

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