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sanity

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About sanity

Building https://freenet.org, the antidote to big tech | Also https://33mail.com, and https://mediator.ai | Democracy requires free speech

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    How does someone "steal" the name of their own project?

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    Comment #48253963

    It's clearly an effective label, otherwise it wouldn't be so widely used. The real objection is that supporters of the ideology dislike the characterization embedded in the term.

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    Comment #48253373

    Most people don't know the academic umbrella term, but if you ask for examples of "woke", it's usually pretty obvious they're referring to Critical Social Justice ideology and its …

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    Comment #48252199

    "Woke" refers to Critical Social Justice ideology, hope that helps.

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    Comment #48250166

    I'm not sure what you mean, Freenet is at least as decentralized as bittorrent.

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    Comment #48250097

    The two systems aren't that different in this regard, both replicate data along request paths. In both systems data will tend to cluster on peers close to the data's location becau…

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    Comment #48247342

    > I win this argument, and you lose. lol

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    Comment #48247330

    What is the issue? Please be specific.

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    Comment #48247149

    And? The new Freenet provides a menu of options for anonymity which is strictly better than imposing the same (imperfect) anonymity solution on everyone.

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    Comment #48242467

    If you have a point to make you should make it.

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    Comment #48241909

    > First, thank you for creating this project. You're welcome :) > My question is whether freenet is designed to be resistant for active adversaries with deep packet inspection capa…

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    Comment #48241035

    It refers to Critical Social Justice ideology. There are entire books, academic papers, and debates about it from across the political spectrum.

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    Comment #48240733

    Fair enough, I misremembered the timeline. My broader point was about identitarianism and ideological conformity, regardless of what terminology I used at the time.

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    Comment #48239841

    Gnutella was decentralized like Freenet, but it's broadcast search approach limited scalability relative to Freenet's "small-world" approach which can scale indefinitely.

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    Comment #48239737

    Appreciate the suggestion. It's often difficult to know where to start when explaining a project like this. The freenet-git work is quite recent but we do feature River, our group …

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    Comment #48239123

    > Why would I answer that when you already said one statement being wrong doesn't matter? I never said that.

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    Comment #48238959

    > The fact that evidence is not provided, if anything, is an indication of potential wrong doing. No, that's not how evidence works. You're starting from the assumption of wrongdoi…

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    Comment #48238827

    Apparently you follow him a lot more closely than I do, nonetheless I stand by my point even if I might use different words today.

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    Comment #48238794

    And yet I still haven't seen anyone explain how the goals actually differ. Interestingly, there seems to be very little overlap between the people giving substantive technical feed…

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    Comment #48237656

    It isn't "natural" to make baseless accusations based on zero evidence.

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    Comment #48237430

    The personal insults really lend credibility to your argument.