GNUnet vs Freenet

GNUnet

GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet. https://git.gnunet.org/ (by GNUnet)

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Freenet

Freenet REference Daemon (by hyphanet)

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GNUnet		Freenet
	Project
-	Mentions	74
37	Stars	987
-	Growth	0.9%
9.8	Activity	9.7
about 7 years ago	Latest Commit	18 days ago
core is C, apps can be any language	Language	Java
AGPL	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

GNUnet

Posts with mentions or reviews of GNUnet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning GNUnet yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Freenet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Freenet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.

Upcoming AMA: Ian Clarke, creator of FreeNet and the new FreeNet 2023 || Friday 9 June
2 projects | /r/privacy | 7 Jun 2023

From the FreeNet Site
EU haluaa kieltää vahvan salauksen - vaatii takaportteja viestisovelluksiin
2 projects | /r/Suomi | 27 May 2023
We're getting some positive attention on HN right now
1 project | /r/Freenet | 21 May 2023

You are linking "original Freenet" to a PDF on freenet.org instead of linking to freenetproject.org ?
Release 1497 fixes a critical vulnerability reported by security researchers
1 project | /r/Freenet | 8 May 2023

release-tag with the download and additional information: https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01497
Freenet 2023: A drop-in decentralized replacement for the world wide web
1 project | /r/programming | 5 May 2023

It clashes with the Freenet project https://freenetproject.org/
Ask HN: What Are Alternatives to the Internet?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2023
A player-owned RPG - would you want to participate in such a game?
1 project | /r/gamedesign | 23 Mar 2023

Instead of use of Blockchain you could also use Freenet . The only bad thing here data could be lost, but mostly only data is lost when not used. This could be used to auto purge forks that most people dislike. If for example some reason there are multiple alternatives how the story goes some of them will die after a while and removed from system.
Internet Archive Takes Down BBC’s Documentary on PM Modi: Report
5 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 26 Jan 2023

An automatically space balancing solution would be Freenet. Given that it's content addressing, it's possible to push data into it and have it deduplicate automatically.
quien me ayuda entrar en la dark wed?
2 projects | /r/AskRedditespanol | 7 Jan 2023
Freenet build 1495 released: faster new user entrance, enhanced user experience, and better performance
2 projects | /r/Freenet | 29 Dec 2022

fred: https://github.com/freenet/fred

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GNUnet and Freenet you can also consider the following projects:

ZeroNet - ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

Tox - The future of online communications.

RetroShare - RetroShare is a Free and Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform.

freenet-core - Declare your digital independence

Syndie - Syndie is an open source system for operating distributed forums, offering a secure and consistent interface to various anonymous and non-anonymous content networks.

nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end

Mumble - Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit

Friends

loki-network - Lokinet is an anonymous, decentralized and IP based overlay network for the internet.