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The Internet as it exists today is filled with leaky abstractions that make our lives harder. Hosting files, sharing them, and collaboratively editing them are burdensome endeavours that cost time & money due to the reliance on central authorities: servers. Dedicated servers experience downtime and security breaches, while cloud providers introduce hidden costs, configuration challenges, and a lack of oversight & governance.

Oku aims to address the failings of the client-server paradigm, offering:

• Authority over your own data without the need to trust a third-party
• Painless migration; no vendor lock-in, as your files are yours
• Fault-tolerance in the network when nodes go offline
• Simplified identity & access management
• Painless communication across NAT

Oku is a distributed knowledge management system for collaborative teams, enabling:

• Collaborative file editing
• Fault-tolerant file hosting that scales
• Social bookmarking
• Document search & discovery

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The Web has evolved with the client-server paradigm, having become increasingly reliant on advertising revenue to fund the infrastructure costs associated with hosting. The ad-supported model of Web hosting has introduced incentives for service providers to degrade the user experience, manifesting in search engines that provide clickbait results, and social media platforms that penalise content discovery to keep users on their platforms.

The Oku browser is a rich client for the Oku network; it repurposes Web technology to promote human agency by:

• Making content creation & distribution accessible to all
• Extending the lifespan of information, keeping media accessible until the last copy is lost
• Allowing individual users to control what information they wish to discover

The Oku browser provides a parallel space to the Web where information is served by its authors. This allows for:

• Collaboratively building & publishing sites in real time without hosting fees
• Distributed search & social media without ads
• Private, on-device browsing recommendations tailored to your interests

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