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.

In 2030 we might be able to ride between Bakersfield and Merced!

The entire system should have only cost around $28B if executed efficiently. But grift, politics, and contracting inefficiencies basically killed the project. Until the US reforms our civil engineering practices, we will continue to pay more and get less.

Right now, this corridor would struggle to attract 1800 passengers in each direction per day [using pre-pandemic numbers], representing about 2 full Eurostar class trains per day -- and that's assuming that the air routes between SEA-PDX-YVR are discontinued. That's not really enough demand for something that would cost $10B at China HSR prices, or something well over $100B at the probable US HSR pricing.

Would make a lot more sense to add dedicated bus lanes along the entire I-5 corridor to serve this market.

If you don't like what GNU is or stands for, or what you believe it suddenly became after what RMS said, go make your own GNU2. Personally, I stopped my yearly contributions to the FSF after they got into this mess and decided to side with the screaming hordes of SJW zombies - because they are clearly more interested in being PC than supporting Free Software.