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by lorean_victor 844 days ago
what do you mean by "content-centric-networking"? perhaps I have some reading to do.

the "allure of large companies hoarding all the data" might be a factor independently though. I personally believe a proper content discovery service is key to any form of decentralisation, and that is, as far as I can imagine, highly dependent on centralised entities amassing and then processing large amounts of data. I mean we sold our data to Google and in return got the current decentralised web where anyone can make a website and get traffic if the content is good enough (or SEO-hacky enough).

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The wikipedia article is a decent high level overview: [1]

"Content-Centric Networking (CCN) diverges from the IP-based, host-oriented Internet architecture by prioritizing content, making it directly addressable and routable. In CCN, endpoints communicate based on named data rather than IP addresses. This approach is a part of information-centric networking (ICN) architecture and involves the exchange of content request messages (termed "Interests") and content return messages (termed "Content Objects")."

It seems well suited for a distributed p2p style network in my mind, but its definitely not anywhere near my area of expertise.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_centric_networking

thanks for the pointer!