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

Post by schleck8 » Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 8:04 AM UTC

ArneBab wrote: post #270

bananamerica wrote: post #263

Everyone wants absolute free speech until their platform is taken over by conspiracy freaks, white supremacists, nazis, and anti vaxxers...

And then you find out, whether your moderation works. Point in case: On Freenet it does. But I had to close down my youtube comments on my channel completely when they discovered my youtube-Account. Because it’s the clearnet where moderation sucks. Its actually scaling, fully decentralized moderation system is how Freenet keeps communication friendly with actual pseudonymity and privacy protection: https://www.draket…

Post by schleck8 » Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 8:06 AM UTC

sweetbitter wrote: post #33

bitwize wrote: post #11

The upshot of a project like Freenet is that no matter how noble the intentions, these days it's pretty much a CSAM distribution network and little else -- and if you publicly fess up to using it you'll be put on a list. This is why the future of the internet is censored, regulated platforms like FB, Twitter, and Reddit -- if you seek out uncensored platforms you are ipso facto up to no good because of the reputation…

Federated platforms are pretty good with getting rid of public objectionable material. I thought that ever since encryption became a thing, we had pretty much forfeit the possibility of preventing the sharing of CSAM? Hence why Facebook is where the overwhelming majority of CSAM is found on the internet.

Post by ArneBab » Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 8:28 AM UTC

b5 wrote: post #280

pnathan wrote: post #262

I've run Freenet twice in the last twenty years. Maybe 2006, 2012? Each time CSAM was surprisingly visible. Maybe these days it's kicked off to a corner but back then it was pretty much a click away. I'm going to have to say if that's the basic motivation for censorship resistant communication in the USA, I am disappointed and sad. Wonder if it's actually useful in places where you actually have censorship, or if it'…

That was my experience too, the few times I tried it. I haven't been back for just that reason. There's nothing that I can do on there that I can't do on the real internet and even the tiniest risk of CSAM material reaching my machine is not worth it. It's sad but I think in most modern democracies that are relatively free, like the USA and EU, the primary use for these services is CSAM. There's no other reason to us…

Post by ArneBab » Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 8:32 AM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #260

ArneBab wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you try whether installing Java manually and then following the Linux install works?

Sure! But what's the proper way to install Java manually on MacOS? (Sorry, it's 1:40am, otherwise I'd be a bit more "try to figure out how to do this" and less "please link me to something to run.")

Post by ArneBab » Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 8:39 AM UTC

sanity31415 wrote: post #199

cgtzczykldpq wrote: post #127

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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 I would blindguess that this was caused by Travis CI shutting down its free service for open source, the website was deployed using Travis IIRC.

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...