Freenet

“after seeing a few index sites inside the network, I quickly realized how much of that network was CSAM.”

“It has moderation systems without centralized power but with sensible defaults.”

“Freenet had a different approach, even back in the early days”

“It's been working for decades. But nobody uses it except child pornographers.”

“I was immediately turned off by the amount of cheese pizza that was readily available”

“Freenet is at least as decentralized as bittorrent”

“The new Freenet provides a menu of options for anonymity which is strictly better than imposing the same (imperfect) anonymity solution on everyone.”

“there was never enough peers to connect to and/so it was too slow to download anything meaningful”

“Freenet's "small-world" approach which can scale indefinitely”

“you just get a menu of options instead of being forced to use a one-size-fits-all approach to anonymity”

“I loved Freenet as a concept back in the day and used to devote a significant chunk of my tiny hard drive”

“Peers bootstrap into the network in seconds typically”

“Freenet seems to not interoperate with the existing WWW as much, while at the same time giving more specification on a specific routing and WASM validator.”

“absolutely needed this kind of innovation from its founder”

“the new Freenet gives applications and users different choices about anonymity depending on their requirements”

“I think we have a solid starting point.”

“I think it is built on a subtlety bad premise.”

“Looks very intersting, congratulations for the launch and wishing you good Luck!”

“Freenet is much more general”

“installation is very quick - the binary itself is just 10MB”

“So in that aspect it seems more user friendly than a hard fork.”

“Looks very interesting! I stumbled across your webpage a few months ago while looking into the state of peer-to-peer.”

“Letting the payload/application define the merge operation is clever.”

“Freenet's approach works well for things like group chat, where temporary inconsistency is mostly just an irritation, but for a cryptocurrency it is fatal.”

“If you're a developer and are interested in building on Freenet I suggest starting with”

“If you don't mind watching a video I gave this talk back in March that should be fairly comprehensive”

“much better architecturally than tying the platform to one approach to anonymity as I did when I designed the original Freenet”

“They have the advantage of simplicity, anonymity, and helping to fund the project, but as you correctly point out - they are centralized.”

“this new direction is the right choice for Freenet to try and attract new users”

“the anonymity of the original Freenet has led to it being a very unsavory place”

“I will say for everyone pining for the Internet of yesteryear freenet is it.”

“Neat. I've been wanting to see WASM-defined network behavior like this for a while”

“you can be chatting with other users on River within seconds”

“It never took off, but not because it didn't work”

“probably the first decentralized (not just federated) social network”

“That you don't mention NAT punching or discovery as outstanding is encouraging”

“Freenet-core itself isn’t stable enough to rely on for something like family chat”

“Freenet is promising but it's not even fully done. Experimental stage.”

“if you really care about the crypto piece, then freenet”

“It's so overrun with paedophiles that even the most fervent advocates of anonymity have fled.”