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The Theseus DHT protocol lets you create distributed hash tables (DHTs) with unusually strong security properties. Can I2P learn anything from this, especially for filesharing applications?

With MuWire shutting down, are there any other good filesharing networks/options other than torrents through i2psnark and the postman tracker?

As a reformed neo-liberal, I recently came across Cockshott's Towards a New Socialism, and I have to say I'm absolutely stunned. I never even considered there could be anything other than markets to allocate resource in an at least somewhat efficient manner.

I realize that the field has received very little attention, and I am unable to find much other sophisticated research on the topic of computer-optimized central planning or modern takes on the economic calculation problem.

Here are the few things I did manage to find:

Economic Calculation in Light of Advances in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Review of Towards a New Socialism? by W. Paul Cockshott and Allin F. Cottrell

Does anyone know any other things I can look into?

Given all the issues with PGP mail, SMTP, and IMAP, as well as the flexibility of Matrix, I was wondering if it makes sense to apply Matrix to non-realtime communication like email. Developments like autocrypt and pEp just seem like attempts to fix a broken protocol rather than anything cohesive. Other attempts like Dark Mail don't seem to have yielded much.

I imagine implementing something like this would be pretty straightforward and could either be in the style of a local IMAP/SMTP bridge (similar to Protonmail Bridge) or as an extension of existing email clients. All the matrix magic and encryption could be very transparent, and for users which don't have a matrix account associated with their address, a regular SMTP homeserver bridge could be used to send and receive for out of band users.

Anyone have any ideas, resources, or comments about this?