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Isn't this just Freenet?
Yes. That was what I'm alluding to when I wrote:
Perfect Dark is a major network in Japan. Freenet is a network most people in the globe are not aware of. Hell, Perfect Dark may have a larger Japanese user-base than Freenet's global one.
It's worth mentioning that the former leader of the Freenet project wasn't the most competent. Combine that with him spending years trying (and failing) to cater to the needs of imaginary dictatorships' defectors (anyone of them using Freenet instead of Tor is the imaginary part), instead of focusing on maximizing the reliability and performance of the network to help its actual users. So it's not just the ignorance of the masses that was at fault. The default FN user experience was often a horrible one. And users needed to ignore the officially-recommended microblog/forum applications, and even use a patched FN version, to get a decent performance out of the network.
Anyway, Freenet is the past and the present. And as I wrote in the parent comment, I hope a Freenet-like network would become a major success in the future, but I'm not holding my hopes up.
I feel that there's so much potential in Freenet that's not being utilized. Or "Hyphanet" as it's now called. It could be one of the coolest things ever, but as it is I wouldn't recommend anyone to go there because of the default FN experience.
wtf, I missed that news.
https://www.hyphanet.org/
Apparently Ian and "Locutus" decided that they wanted the Freenet name, so now Locutus is Freenet and Freenet is Hyphanet. I'm sure this won't confuse anyone.