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?...

I remember Project Genesis working great last time around!

("I...have had enough...of you!")

If I stand at just the right spot at the end of the hallway, I can see into every room of my house. I'm impressed that they think that they'll sell a bunch of units to people who have a house the size of small museum, with just 2 people rattling around in it (and maybe the help, but they wouldn't be allowed to use it).

Perhaps it's time for Wikipedia to offer an onion site address. Given that some guy pulled put together a demo in 2017 https://www.vice.com/en/article/theres-now-a-dark-web-version-of-wikipedia-tor-alec-muffett/, that might need to be brushed off. Yes, your Tor traffic is almost certainly not going to exit into another restrictive area, but it's always best to keep your traffic entirely within the Tor network.

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.