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 honorary degrees I've seen locally aren't necessarily underserved, but it's often about universities tripping over each other to be the one to award the degree. Even without a speech, they get free publicity just from a newly relatively famous person splashing that institution as part of their credentials.

On the contrary, only the US taxes corporations on income earned abroad. American companies are asking for normal treatment rather than special double taxation.

I also don't understand the rationale of taxing citizens who are living and working overseas completely outside US jurisdiction. Requiring overseas spouses of citizens to provide tax info to the US Feds, even if they've never set foot there, seems even weirder.

That said, for US-owned corporations, what's the ethical argument against taxing income earned abroad when owners are in the country of the tax jurisdiction? If most profits of a company come back to owners situated in the US, doesn't not taxing those profits (or at least to the level that they've not been taxed already) create a perverse incentive for US-run companies to shift their operations overseas, not for operational efficiency reasons, but merely to avoid a tax that competing companies which keep their operations in the local area have to pay?

If most shareholders want to live in Ireland or Bermuda or wherever else then maybe it's different, because the profits are staying in the tax jurisdiction where those who benefit from the profits also have to live.

I deleted my Facebook account and so far it's been worthwhile in a limited way, despite some isolation from some friends and organisations who tend to do most things through Facebook because that's where everyone else is. I'm still, however, living in a world where large populations of people are influenced to levels of accuracy that were unprecedented before Facebook entered the scene. This affects how populations interact, how they perceive each others opinions, what they buy or don't buy, how they see each other as threats or otherwise, how they perceive leaders and challengers and governments generally, and (in a democracy) how they vote. It's not that we didn't have an advertising industry before with radio and TV and banners and billboards, but most advertising was public and visible and could be challenged and given context. With social media, and particularly Facebook, advertising can be so targeted and privately linked to personal profiles that it's often not clearly visible to anyone except the person being affected, or outside of groups that are already strongly polarized and unlikely to be objective. Maybe this is inevitable in modern times. There's plenty of arguing to do about what's acceptable, but there's also a strong argument that simply deleting a Facebook account won't change much for the person who deletes it, besides isolate them in a world where so many other people assume you use Facebook, unless large numbers of others also delete their accounts.