> The reputation system is radical departure from freenet.
Many things about the new Freenet are very different, however the original Freenet had a reputation system called "web-of-trust"[1]. The new Freenet's reputation system will be a generalization of this.
> where you initially buy keywords from freenet.org, like a domain name purchase, and then other users add or subtract from your rating.
Not exactly buying keywords, you can use a donation to "bootstrap" a reputation, this is done anonymously through an RSA blind signature. There will be other ways to do this too - but a donation is simple, and obviously benefits the project.
> The new reputation mechanism must integrate with the subscription multicast in order to limit the abuse of the network. I'd be interested in a description on how this works.
This is largely addressed by lower-level mechanisms although the reputation system could also play a role. Each peer keeps track of its neighboring peer's behavior, abusive peers will be disconnected over time. See [2] for a description of part of this mechanism.
[1] https://freesocial.draketo.de/wot_en.html
[2] https://github.com/freenet/locutus/blob/3e5a31780f235e04f7b2...
Many things about the new Freenet are very different, however the original Freenet had a reputation system called "web-of-trust"[1]. The new Freenet's reputation system will be a generalization of this.
> where you initially buy keywords from freenet.org, like a domain name purchase, and then other users add or subtract from your rating.
Not exactly buying keywords, you can use a donation to "bootstrap" a reputation, this is done anonymously through an RSA blind signature. There will be other ways to do this too - but a donation is simple, and obviously benefits the project.
> The new reputation mechanism must integrate with the subscription multicast in order to limit the abuse of the network. I'd be interested in a description on how this works.
This is largely addressed by lower-level mechanisms although the reputation system could also play a role. Each peer keeps track of its neighboring peer's behavior, abusive peers will be disconnected over time. See [2] for a description of part of this mechanism.
[1] https://freesocial.draketo.de/wot_en.html
[2] https://github.com/freenet/locutus/blob/3e5a31780f235e04f7b2...