I'm not sure what this means.
> it's drop-in from the perspective of the user
From my perspective as a user, if after doing the drop in replacement, I can't use my bank's web site or browse Hacker News the same way, or watch TV on Hulu, it's not a drop in replacement because what I did before no longer works. It's not clear to me if this is the case with Freenet.
The P2P aspect looks much better, but naturally there's the question of how this is differentiated from something like Tor with .Onion sites?
See the diagram here: [1]
> From my perspective as a user, if after doing the drop in replacement, I can't use my bank's web site or browse Hacker News the same way, or watch TV on Hulu, it's not a drop in replacement because what I did before no longer works
Those are centralized services, the idea is to allow the creation of decentralized alternatives that can still be used through familiar tools like the web browser.
And if I can't access those services on Freenet then it's not a drop in replacement.
It may very well be a replacement. My issue is it being called a drop in replacement if it's not.
It sounds like you're looking for an anonymizing proxy like Tor. There is no way to do what you're looking for that could reasonably be considered decentralized.
They're not contracts in the sense of a cryptocurrency, they're contracts in the sense that code and cryptography are used to control how data is used and updated in the system, similar to a database ACL, or object encapsulation in OOP.
This is a generalization of a concept called "signed subspace keys" in the original Freenet, which predated Bitcoin by almost a decade.
> The P2P aspect looks much better, but naturally there's the question of how this is differentiated from something like Tor with .Onion sites?
.Onion sites and services are still centralized, their server's location is just hidden by Tor. With the new Freenet the services themselves are entirely decentralized and can operate entirely independently of the person or people that created them.
I feel like we're so far apart on what a drop in replacement is that there's no point continuing this.
> It sounds like you're looking for an anonymizing proxy like Tor. There is no way to do what you're looking for that could reasonably be considered decentralized.
I'm not looking for anything. I'm concerned that I'm being misled and that can have an impact on my decision to use Freenet in the future.
Your contractor messes with it for a day and that evening you are taking a warm shower just like you did the night before.
This is what drop in means.
But if you were to go around selling people this drop in tankless water heater 150 years ago before homes had the required electricity, you would rightfully be called a liar.