It's awful to see people still using this. Freenet was a terrible mistake, it achieved none of its goals, but it ended up being an amazing tool for pedos and child porn.
If any of the devs read this please find a better project to contribute to.
The true paradox of the internet is that the more private, the more anonymous, the more safe a platform is, the more likely it will attract pedophiles, criminals, and terrorists.
You either have to accept the legal and moral consequences that your platform will be used for illegal things, or make your platform less safe, private, and anonymous.
Lots of bold statements, zero arguments except the usual fear mongering. "Think of the children!!!"
Hyphanet (formerly Freenet) works, people are actually using it.
Meanwhile, almost every single day there is news on hackernews about the corporate surveillance dystopia that the regular internet has become.
Yet a project which provides actually private, anonymous communication and publishing, and has a track record of decades of doing so, is attacked with such vitriol.
You should rather ask yourself:
Are you doing society a service by trying to discourage the very few people who, as unpaid volunteers, actually provide an alternative to the adtech-funded walled garden that the internet is nowadays?
If any of the devs read this please find a better project to contribute to.
You either have to accept the legal and moral consequences that your platform will be used for illegal things, or make your platform less safe, private, and anonymous.
Hyphanet (formerly Freenet) works, people are actually using it.
Meanwhile, almost every single day there is news on hackernews about the corporate surveillance dystopia that the regular internet has become.
Yet a project which provides actually private, anonymous communication and publishing, and has a track record of decades of doing so, is attacked with such vitriol.
You should rather ask yourself:
Are you doing society a service by trying to discourage the very few people who, as unpaid volunteers, actually provide an alternative to the adtech-funded walled garden that the internet is nowadays?