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foobarian | on: Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
I thought Gnutella was a bit more like Freenet than Napster, iirc only the bootstrap was centralized.
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Gnutella was decentralized like Freenet, but it's broadcast search approach limited scalability relative to Freenet's "small-world" approach which can scale indefinitely.