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Web420 - A Private, Peer-To-Peer Internet For The People (github.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You appear to have a solid idea as well as some potential proof of concept code which does not appear to have been uploaded to GitHub yet but you don't appear to have posted anything usable yet for the end user.

Are you seeking developers to get passionate about this or are you just trying to draw in future user eyeballs?

Honestly; it isn't clear, and there are already mature technologies that exist that is similar to what you seem to be proposing (see i2p, tor, freenet) which are only suffering from a lack of adoption due to their development being backend first and not being able to focus a lot on usability or glitzy UI.

You look like you could have some good skills with graphical things; have you considered contributing your skills to an existing project?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Hello,

The stack is live my friend! You can use it right now. Download DeCent-Core, install the Decent Messenger DWA from the Github link, and you can send P2P messages this very instant. Video/file transfers calls by next week. There is nothing hypothetical about it, it's a usable prototype and it's only getting more stable with each passing day. This is real, concrete, and usable now on Windows.

Yes, I would like developers to start familiarizing themselves with DWAs as soon as possible. If we can get this off the ground, it would be a very good thing for humanity, the sooner the better.

Web420 has very little in common with existing "alternative Internets", so there is no point in trying to do this there. From the linked article:

Web420 differs from existing decentralized networks, like Freenet, I2p, or Tor.

These networks focus on building a global network of interconnected nodes which serve as an overlay to the Internet. The common emphasis of all of these projects is anonymity, and then privacy through anonymity. Though it happens a bit differently on each, essentially all of these systems achieve anonymity by passing requests through the overlay network to obfuscate the connection metadata.

Web420 works differently, almost diametrically so. Instead of consisting (primarily) of a global network, Web420 is composed of infinite, smaller, ephemeral private networks that pop in and out of existence as needed. These networks are as big as required; they can exist between two devices, or two million devices. The can grow, shrink, disappear, and re-emerge. They originate in, and are accessed solely through web browsers, over WebRTC. DCNT servers don't connect to other DCNT servers at all. They listen for requests from remote DWAs and proxy them to relevant local DWAs.

There is a bit more detail beyond that in the article as well.