I think when the history of the last decade is written, it will be about - in part - the terrible social damage caused by opaque and biased social media algorithms manipulating the public discourse.

Locutus is primarily designed for decentralization, not anonymity - which will make it less suited to IP theft than various other technologies that are already pervasive, the same is true of a lot of the other "people you don't want to be your early adopters" that you mention. It's definitely a risk for systems like Freenet, but it's a manageable risk.

Most of the negative comments so far are from people who I doubt spent 20 seconds looking at our site, so I hope they don't color your judgement. Read through our user manual and form your own opinion.

Once there are viable alternatives on Freenet we'll use them.

I think the time is right, which is exactly why I'm doing what I'm doing :)

Totally agree about the importance of naming, and Freenet has the advantage of literally describing what we're building - a free network.

We've already had interest from everyone from video game developers who want to build a decentralized MMORPG, to political advocacy groups across the political spectrum. Plenty of people value freedom.

You're being surprisingly judgmental when it doesn't seem like you even read the first few paragraphs on the website about it, let alone the other available documentation.

We're still early but we already have a user manual that goes into quite a bit of detail, if you'd like to take a look and if you still have questions I'd be happy to answer.

VAT is 19%, even if you leave out the rest.

And Nazi Germany claimed to defend itself from Poland.

Conventional fuel costs less than €1 per liter before taxes in Europe. E-fuel costs at least €10, more realistically €15 before taxes. Electric cars will be much cheaper to use in 2035. Given the cost, the potential market for e-fuels is so small that it can't sustain a network of gas stations.

E-fuels are just a distraction to prevent conventional fuel from actually being phased out.

You don't need a Facebook account anymore. There's now a Meta account that replaces the old Oculus account and isn't associated with a Facebook account by default. Naturally, it's hard to say what they do with account data internally.

To my knowledge, there's nothing truly unusual about using Heroin as pain medication in hospitals for severe cases. It's called Diamorphine in a medical context. Patients typically only get it for a short timespan and aren't told what it is. Withdrawal isn't much more problematic than with other opiate based pain medication.

You forgot the most important ones regarding security: Outlook and Active Directory.

So why give up this leverage?

Well, I've always assumed that Russia has been playing games with NS1 to pressurize Germany. The alternative is what? Russia has had problems fulfilling their contract due to technical issues caused by sanctions and decided that it's cheaper to destroy their infrastructure than to pay any penalties? I wonder if the relevant numbers available.