Comment Re:Silicone Valley (Score 2) 64
Freenet is also based on middle-out compression.
Comment Re:So i can just post 30TB and get it later? (Score 5, Informative) 64
No. Trying to push 30TB into Freenet will be interpreted as an attack on the network by other peers and they'll disconnect from your peer.
Freenet is better viewed as a communication medium than a storage medium. Data is prioritized according to demand, somewhat like an LRU cache. You can't upload 30TB and expect the network to preserve it for you.
On liability, running a Freenet peer is more like running network infrastructure that automatically routes and caches other people's traffic than intentionally publishing it. US law explicitly recognizes this distinction in the DMCA's provisions for transitory network communications and system caching. We discuss this in more detail in the FAQ.
Comment Re:Just a heads up, decentralized platforms... (Score 4, Informative) 64
You obviously haven't tried Freenet. You can join our room on River and you'll see no spam, no fraud, no hate speech, none of that.
Decentralized doesn't mean unmoderated. Systems built on Freenet can be moderated however their creators and communities want. River is moderated.
The difference is that nobody running one service gets to decide what everyone else is allowed to run.
Submission + - Freenet: Apps Without Platforms
Sanity writes: Earlier this year Slashdot covered the launch of the completely redesigned Freenet. I recently gave a talk about what we've been building since then. Unlike traditional web applications, apps on Freenet have no central server or database, with application state instead distributed across the network. These now include decentralized group chat, publishing, search, and fully decentralized Git hosting. The talk also gets into some of Freenet's internals, including how we use machine learning for network routing.
Comment Captions Plus! (Score 1) 100
BUT if you Subscribe! We will fix the captions.
Comment Interesting feedback (Score 1) 41
Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress
https://ma.tt/2026/04/emdash-feedback/
Comment It went from zero to "beta preview" in 10 hours? (Score 2) 41
My hot take: This is Matt Kane (a legit Astro core team member) using Claude Code to generate an entire CMS in a day as an April Fools flex / proof of concept / "look what AI-assisted development can do now."
Comment CowboyNeal would never have approved this (Score 1) 92
Content has really gone downhill lately.
Comment Re:Where does the data live? (Score 4, Informative) 26
Thanks for your questions, Freenet caches data but it isn’t meant to be a long-term storage network. It’s better to think of it as a communication system. Data persists as long as at least one node remains subscribed to it. If nobody subscribes (including the author), it will eventually disappear from the network. So yes, if only your node subscribes then the data will only exist there and won’t be available when your machine is offline. But if other nodes subscribe it will be replicated automatically and remain available even if your node goes offline.
Comment Re:2023 (Score 1) 26
Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Submission + - New Freenet Network Launches With River Group Chat (freenet.org)
Sanity writes: Freenet’s new generation peer-to-peer network is now operational, along with the first application built on the network: a decentralized group chat system called River.
The new version is a complete redesign of the original project, focusing on real-time decentralized applications rather than static content distribution. Applications run as WebAssembly-based contracts across a small-world peer network, allowing software to operate directly on the network without centralized infrastructure.
An introductory video demonstrating the system is available on YouTube.
Slashdot previously covered the reboot of Freenet in 2023 in this article.
The new version is a complete redesign of the original project, focusing on real-time decentralized applications rather than static content distribution. Applications run as WebAssembly-based contracts across a small-world peer network, allowing software to operate directly on the network without centralized infrastructure.
An introductory video demonstrating the system is available on YouTube.
Slashdot previously covered the reboot of Freenet in 2023 in this article.
Comment Re: no jobs (Score 1) 150
Of course *you* haven't seen it. They don't share "the good stuff" with commoners.
Comment One thing to keep in mind (Score 4, Insightful) 123
It’s designed to feed the company’s data systems first, and clean your floors second.
Comment Re:Before you dunk all over this van... (Score 1) 93
They are well known in their niche.
Grounded used them for RV conversions: https://www.groundedevs.com/camper
Submission + - Developer Pays $5.50/Month to Route Around AT&T's Ancient Firewall Rules (charleshood.me) 1
Danborg writes: When AT&T's network blocks legitimate AWS IPs from 2018 because they were 'sketchy' in 2015, and neither Amazon, AT&T, nor Netlify will coordinate a fix, what do you do? Run your own reverse proxy for the price of a coffee. A tale of legacy infrastructure, corporate apathy, and why some firewall rules achieve immortality through bureaucratic inertia.
