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.

The company's own plans do not matter, cannot matter, have never mattered.

The fact that they have the data, and that they operate in a jurisdiction where they can be compelled to turn over the data (and then gagged from saying what the government is now doing with the data), is all that matters. And that applies to both the US and China.

Pre-Snowden, I could imagine some people sticking their heads in the sand and pretending that stuff doesn't happen, or if it does, it doesn't happen here, or if it does, it doesn't happen often, or if it does, it happens with meaningful judicial oversight.

But the cat's well and truly out of the bag. Gathering data is equivalent to using it for evil, and we should (some of us do) treat every app that attempts to gather data, as evil. And we've long known that even approximate location data reveals plenty about who you associate with and what you do.

There is ZERO percent chance that NONE of the affected creators appealed their strikes.

YouTube was flooded with evidence that these clowns were pulling a fast one, and failed to comprehend it, for FOUR YEARS. That kind of negligence should open them to some sort of action as well.