[Freedombox-discuss] fully-decentralised forums

[Thomas Ruddy]

Someone below known as DrBob or Mark,

You asked:
>Which other systems provide fully-decentralised forums?

"Decentralised can imply "distributed" or "federated". A list of applications that have support, or plan to implement support, for federation (interoperability) are distinguished from distributed ones here,

http://we-need-a-free-and-open-social-network.wikispaces.com/Information+Center

Thomas

Thomas Ruddy, Switzerland, Privacy in E-Governance http://www.thomasruddy.eu   

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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:07:12 +0100
From: drbob <drbob at lunamutt.com>
To: freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Is FreedomBox interested in using
    Retroshare?
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I thought the point of freedombox was to provide privacy and control of your data?
This is exactly what Retroshare tries to do - in a fully decentralised manner ;)

I'd rather not just focus on file-sharing features either...
Which other systems provide fully-decentralised forums?

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Marc, if you are interested in anonymity... Retroshare provides strong anonymity.
Certainly better than bittorrent or other file-sharing networks like Mute.

The key is to build a trusted link-level network on which the file-sharing can take place.

We use the "Turtle" protocol - developed by Tanenbaum's group from the Vrije University.

Here is a link to an academic paper describing the "Strong Anonymity" features of Turtle:
http://www.turtle4privacy.org/documents/sec_prot04.pdf

and the wikipedia page on Turtle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_F2F


Mark.