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Freenet Creator Ian Clarke Shares Progress on Its New Decentralized Network

Ian Clarke, creator of the peer-to-peer platform Freenet, reported progress on the redesigned Freenet network, which launched in March, highlighting new decentralized apps including group chat, publishing, search, and Git hosting, and noting the use of machine learning for network routing.

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Ian Clarke (aka ancient Slashdot reader Sanity), designer of the peer-to-peer communication platform Freenet, is back with an update on the project's progress following the launch of its P2P network in March. He writes: Earlier this year, Slashdot covered the launch of the completely redesigned Freenet. I recently gave a talk about what we've been building since then. Unlike traditional web applications, apps on Freenet have no central server or database; instead application state is distributed across the network. These now include decentralized group chat, publishing, search, and fully decentralized Git hosting. The talk also gets into some of Freenet's internals, including how we use machine learning for network routing.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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