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@ -161,8 +161,13 @@ without the substance of a real conversation. And the same was happening
in every Usenet group, though what was being shilled varied from one
group to the next, with an immense multitude of different shilling
organizations running an immense multitude of unresponsive scripts
promoting an immense multitude of different scams, most of them about
money rather than politics.
promoting an immense multitude of different scams, initially
most of them about money rather than politics, but what killed usenet
was political shills.
In the 3rd Reich there were no chess clubs or sewing circles only
national socialist chess clubs and sewing circles. Clownworld has
adopted the policy that there be only progressive and gay chess
clubs and dykey and progressive sewing circles.
Two real participants in the science fiction and fantasy Usenet group would
be having a conversation about the hero’s journey, and the computer of
@ -473,14 +478,16 @@ Kademlia the $log_2$ of the exclusive-or between his hash and your hash.
that are closest to the target. And then you connect to those, and ask the
same question again.
This works if each computer has approximately the same number of connections
close to it by a metric as distant from it by some metric. So it will be
connected to almost all of the computers that are nearby to it by that metric.
In the course of this operation, you acquire more and more active
connections, which you purge from time to time to keep the total number
of connections reasonable, the distribution approximately uniform, the
connections preferentially to computers with long lived network addresses
and open ports, and connections that are distant from you distant from
each other.
of connections reasonable and the distribution approximately uniform by the
metric of distance used.
The reason that the Kademlia distributed hash table cannot work in the
The reason that the Kademlia distributed hash table cannot work in the
face of enemy action, is that the shills who want to prevent something
from being found create a hundred entries with a hash close to their target
by Kademlia distance, and then when your search brings you close to
@ -497,10 +504,8 @@ response to that thread to a public repository, they did the equivalent of a
git commit and push to that repository.
Each repository contains all the material the poster has approved, resulting
in considerable duplication, but not enormous duplication.
approved links and reply-to links – but not every spammer, scammer, and
in considerable duplication, but not enormous duplication, approved links and
reply-to links – but not every spammer, scammer, and
shill in the world can fill your feed with garbage.
@ -813,7 +818,8 @@ To provide a reliable broadcast channel, a hash of the total state of the room i
# signing and immutability
For money, we want signatures, and money is the highest priority. Carol
For money, we want signatures, and money is the highest priority.
Information wants to be free, but programmers want to be paid. Carol
signs what she said to Bob, and she is stuck with it. Less cases to handle.
When you send money, you not only sign it, thus rendering it immutable
but deletable, you sign the message, thus signing all the previously
@ -1083,6 +1089,21 @@ pressure. We start by enabling discussion groups, which will be an
unprofitable exercise, but the big money is in enabling business.
Discussion groups are a necessary first step.
## Cold Start Problem and Metcalf's law.
The value of joining a network depends on the number of other people already using that network.
So if there are big competing networks, no one wants to join the new network.
No one is going to want to be the first to start a Sovcorp. And until people do,
programmers are not going to get paid except by angel investors expecting that
people will start Sovcorps. So to get a foot in the door, we have to cherry pick
and snipe little areas where the big network is failing, and once we have a foot
in the door, then we can get rolling.
### Bitmessage
The lowest hanging fruit of all, (because, unfortunately, there is no money or prospect for money in it) is to replace Bitmessage.
# Development sequence
First we need a replacement for Quic, TCP, and SSL. Quic and SSL encryption

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