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1 =head1 AnoNet2 Introduction
2
3 (Note: There's now a page (L<http://www.anonet2.org/anonymity>) explaining
4 a bit about anonymity in general and its place in AnoNet in particular.)
5
6 (Note: There's now a darknet comparison page
7 (L<http://www.anonet2.org/darknet_comparison>), where you can compare
8 and contrast the various darknet options.)
9
10 (Note: There's now a separate page (L<http://www.anonet2.org/faq>),
11 to answer all your AnoNet-related questions.)
12
13 So, you came across anoNet and thought it sounded great, so you decided
14 to join in order to check it out.
15
16 ...and found the (only) client port doesn't work half the time,
17
18 ...and most of the advertised services no longer exist,
19
20 ...and most of the people have left,
21
22 ...and those who are left can hardly be classified as friendly,
23
24 ...and so you left, and perhaps found another darknet instead.
25
26 Well, you're not the only one who's been turned off, and a few of us
27 have decided to take action and fix AnoNet. Some of us are relatively
28 new, while others joined AnoNet1 years ago, and left out of disgust.
29 A number of features set version 2 apart from the original:
30
31 =over
32
33 =item No false advertising
34
35 If you see something advertised here, it exists. You won't see stuff
36 that hasn't been up in years here. (This page is easy to update from
37 within AnoNet2 by anybody who has an update/correction to make, and
38 changes normally propagate within no more than a few days.)
39
40 =item No centralized network control
41
42 You don't have to worry about Kaos waking up one morning and blocking
43 your access to the whole network by deciding to filter private ASNs.
44 You also don't have to worry about a couple of powerful guys getting
45 together and "blacklisting" you from the network for some unspecified
46 reason with an inquisition against your peers.
47
48 =item No centralized IRC control
49
50 You don't have to worry about risc g-lining you from the "official" IRC
51 network for no apparent reason, and refusing to even admit to having
52 g-lined you. Since the whole purpose behind AnoNet was to create a
53 censorship-resistant alternative to the government-censored "public"
54 Internet, arbitrary censorship on the "official" AnoNet1 IRC network by
55 anonymous government members is particularly troubling. AnoNet2 has
56 no "official" IRC network, and the servers most commonly used have
57 interesting channels bridged with a relay bot, so even if you manage to
58 annoy an IRC server operator to the point where he decides to g-line you
59 from his whole "network," that doesn't automatically prevent you from
60 connecting to another server and accessing one of the bridged channels.
61 (Obviously, if you manage to annoy the operators of all the linked servers
62 to the point where all of them g-line you from their respective "networks"
63 and nobody wants to let you relay your own server in, then you're probably
64 out of luck. Of course, that doesn't prevent you from running your own
65 IRC server, and those who want to hear you can still join it.)
66
67 =item No resource mess
68
69 We have one mechanism for resource management, a decentralized (not just
70 distributed, but truly decentralized) resource database. You don't have
71 to deal with half a zillion incompatible (and in the case of the wiki,
72 down) services, run by guys who may not even be on the AnoNet tomorrow.
73 Managing your resources is as simple as taking a VI to the appropriate
74 files, doing a "git commit," and then just waiting for everybody else to
75 pull your changes (either directly from you, or indirectly from others
76 who pull from you).
77
78 =item No arbitrary rules
79
80 If you read the advertising for AnoNet, you probably think it's whatever
81 you make of it. Sadly, there's a tiny handful of people who have control
82 over most of the network, and make new (unwritten) rules whenever the
83 mood strikes them. The sum of those rules is that AnoNet is whatever
84 I<they> make of it. In version 2, we've undertaken to fix that, by both
85 technical and administrative means. AnoNet2 not only has no arbitrary
86 rules - it has no rules whatsoever.
87
88 =back