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.

Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There are plenty of companies where using the cloud (someone else's computers) isn't really a viable option. For example, think defence, or critical infrastructure (telecoms).

For everyone else, many existing businesses which grew up before the availability of cloud based solutions tend to dabble, move a few things off site, to achieve cost savings. They are likely to get burnt by problems stemming from lack of understanding of cloud infrastructure (migration between cloud vendors, that sort of thing), and so will over-estimate the savings from moving to the cloud.

By comparison, companies which are cloud-centric will see the move to own servers the same way, as a cost saving. They will under-estimate the cost of running their own hardware, especially when scenarios like disaster recovery are taken into account.

It's interesting that they both see moving to the other solution as driving cost savings :)

I think we're in that period of time when over-reliance on cloud services with the cost and vendor tie-in are hitting some businesses. It's the same as over-reliance on a DB vendor technology (i'm looking at you Oracle) drove many companies to explore alternatives. My guess is there will be a correction and there will always be space for both solutions to co-exist.

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.