Syndie is an

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computer

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(re-publish)

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(mainly forums) over a variety of

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and non-anonymous

computer network A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. The computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other. These interconnections are ...

s. Syndie is capable of reaching archives situated in the following anonymous networks:

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History

Syndie has been in development since 2003 and ties in closely with the

network project, which is considered a parent project.
Following the departure of

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Jrandom in 2007, work on syndie was paused. Active development resumed for a period, with the most recent release in 2016.

Concept

Syndie operates in a manner similar to

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newsgroups A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet. They are discussion groups and are not devoted to publishing news. Newsgroups are technically distinct ...

, forums, and other content tools; it allows one or more authors to privately or publicly post messages. Messages are pushed and pulled to and from archive servers (other peers that choose to be), which are hosted in a variety of anonymous and non-anonymous locations. Most archive servers are

HTTP The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, ...

archives hosted inside the

network, but there are syndie archives in

as well as the normal internet. Each archive does not control the content stored on it; by default all messages are pushed and pulled by all participants. In this way, every message is backed up by every user, so should one archive go down, the content can be pushed to a different archive then pulled by other users of that archive. This means that even if all of the users and archives delete a message, as long as one person has it and there is one pushable archive, the message will be redistributed to every user. Users have the option to delete locally stored messages after a set time, after the local storage consumes a certain amount of

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, or by blacklists of users. Each user can create multiple identities. Each identity is known as a forum, and users can post into their own or different forums. Each user can control their forum; for example, they may wish to run a blog by not permitting other people to start threads, but allowing them to post comments.

Technical requirements

Syndie is a

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and as such can run on any

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on which

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is supported; although a

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is required for the

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versions. Syndie is primarily a

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application, based on the

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for Java, but it can be run in a

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( headless) mode.

References

External links

* * www.syndie.i2p inside the I2P network
Syndie web forum
at I2P forums
Syndie
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History

Concept

Technical requirements

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