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On 2018-09-10 20:25, Eion MacDonald wrote:
Problem: who pays for the electricity/servers/maintenance in distributedweb as if one person thinks effort/cost to much and they pull out, then it could fall apart. At moment, private websites carry own cost and 'search' paid for by giving information for adverts etc. Who would index a distributed web?
Depends how it is done.In Freenet which was an early anticensorship network, the person posting content has to keep it alive (in Freenet's case by regularly re-injecting it, but in a less paranoid model just by hosting a master or original copy. Popular content is replicated widely in freenet, and you can retrieve a copy from any node that has a copy, so there is no stampeding herd, and no single point of failure. But if you stop injecting content, and people don't read it, eventually it is pushed out of cache.
They mention DAT https://datproject.org/ and Zeronet.DAT requires a master host to keep files not being actively sought available (so not that decentralised).
Zeronet does something similar to freenet by pushing content to the visitors to your site who then share it (What this does for privacy is anyones guess, but you can use Tor to hide this apparently).
Distributed storage is easily done with redundancy. DAT does deduplication which must help a lot.
Search is an interesting one, but it may be that the nodes will index the content they can decode, and you do a distributed search, or maybe (blasphemy I know) you don't do global search, we could index information when it is injected in various ways, and query indexes. You could even emulate freetext type search this way at some level of expense of index space.
Various Dark Webs are indexed by crawling just like Google does for the web, and search engines could still do this, and make money from ads this way.
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