Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication

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  • i2p.i2p

    I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties.

  • wiki

  • Here's a list of applications built on top of Freenet: https://github.com/freenet/wiki/wiki/Projects

    Freenet needs UDP so it likely won't work on Tails as Tails tunnels everything through Tor.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • website

    Hyphanet static website generator (by hyphanet)

  • There is a merged pull request to migrate to libera.chat, it seems it just has not been deployed to the webserver yet:

    https://github.com/freenet/website/pull/98

  • brianherman

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  • Location: Chicago, IL (A suburb of Chicago called Darien, IL)

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  • Freenet

    Freenet REference Daemon

  • So the issue was that the default bookmarks contained a site directory ("index" in Freenet terminology) which was not properly filtered by its author.

    But IIRC it was always decided to only add indexes to the default bookmarks if their authors do label them as filtered!?

    Perhaps this was a slip-up of whoever the anonymous maintainer of the index was.

    It is also possible that in the past the bookmarks contained both the filtered version of an index as well as another one of the same index which was explicitly labeled as unfiltered. Then the users could decide on their own if they want filtered content or not.

    I don't remember if this was actually done!

    In any case: The default bookmarks are here, you can check the git history yourself:

    https://github.com/freenet/fred/blob/next/src/freenet/client...

  • i2pd

    🛡 I2P: End-to-End encrypted and anonymous Internet

  • There is one more key difference - I2P has C++ implementation[1] which allows it to be run on the low-performance machines, e.g. routers. It is impossible in case of Java. I wish it had been Rust, though...

    [1] https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd

  • core

    A Kotlin web framework

  • This should be easy to set up with Github Actions, here is an example where it builds some Kotlin documentation and deploys to Github Pages: https://github.com/kwebio/kweb-core/blob/master/.github/work...

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  • free-chat-2

  • Do you know FreeChat? That’s a messenger for android over Freenet (currently in pre-beta but working) which uses Freenet to provide privacy on the level needed for medical data: https://github.com/DennisRein/free-chat-2

  • debian

    Debian package (semi-official) (by hyphanet)

  • Do you want to help fix the debian installer? Freenet has been providing a Gentoo package for years. Other distributions need more work. If you have the skills, then please help updating the debian package! https://github.com/freenet/debian

  • FlorisBoard

    An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.

  • There are ways around that. For example, Android users can switch to a FOSS keyboard like FlorisBoard:

    https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard

    In any case, using Freenet is safer than using a platform that is actively monitored and linked to the user's identity.

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