The new Freenet is written in Rust.

lol - same thing with pilots ;)

Thank you!

You're very welcome :)

When the new Freenet is up and running, I think it will be the first system of any kind that could host something like wikipedia, not just the data but the wiki CMS system it's built on. An editable wikipedia, entirely decentralized and very scalable.

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.

Yes. If Republicans won't consider cutting military spending, they're not serious about cutting the deficit. And if Democrats won't consider cuts to other entitlement programs, they're not serious about cutting the deficit. I lean right, especially on fiscal issues, and there just isn't a party of fiscal restraint right now. Clinton as President with Gingrich controlling Congress made some seriously great moves, including really difficult ones that some partisans resigned over; we've had nothing comparable since. You're right that at present, it's all tribalism.

I self-host an instance for my personal / family use. It's federated, so I can still engage with others; the UI keeps getting better and better; it supports voice and video calls as well as messaging (using Opus for audio, so the voice quality is good); and it's end-to-end encrypted.

Outside that ecosystem, I've used Signal as my default SMS app on Android since it was known as TextSecure. I've been surprised by how many people in my Contacts list have started using Signal since Parler was cancelled.

Because Elon is famously vindictive for anything that is now fawning praise?
Because he's a sexy name to be affiliated with?
Because being in his good graces may yield something desirable such as an actual vent being donated once Tesla actually makes them?

The reason people are critiquing this is because he is making the donation of a device (that may help, I'm not a respiratory therapist) that is widely available and costs 1-5K appear to be one that costs 30-50K and has global scarcity. And again it shows Elon is a marketing genius before all else, with a brand that people love to be affiliated with.