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Freenet: created by Ian Clarke in 1999 Freenet 2023: created by Ian Clarke in 2022-2023 Honestly I find it difficult to sympathize with people who get so atta
by ilaksh 3y ago
Freenet: created by Ian Clarke in 1999
Freenet 2023: created by Ian Clarke in 2022-2023
Honestly I find it difficult to sympathize with people who get so attached to a system that they can't deal with being labeled as using the old version when the creator of that system wants to improve it 20 years later.
He has similar broad goals for the new system and I say every right to use the name. Why would people get so bent out of shape about being Freenet 1.0 and having a 2.0 exist now?
It would be different if the other developers involved with Freenet over the years had significantly modernized it or created a new paradigm, but that's not the case.
When people fail to adapt it makes me think they have cognitive limitations.
- ArneBab 3y agoI remember the Gnutella vs. Gnutella 2 debacle. That was pretty and crippled Gnutella quite badly — even though Gnutella 2 actually had similar goals as Gnutella. That’s the historical precedent. You can learn from it and avoid such steps, or you can ignore it. Keep in mind that Locutus does not have privacy as a goal: if it harms the original Freenet like "Gnutella 2" harmed Gnutella, then privacy on the web suffers.
- ArneBab 3y agoAre you aware that besides websites the original Freenet / Hyphanet of today provides convenient media-streaming, social networking, hidden pseudonymous email, forums, and interactive chat? That its spam-control is significantly faster than earlier thanks to improvements for a university thesis? That it’s performance has increased a lot due to improvements in the networking layer?