AMA: Ian Clarke creator of Freenet 2023 - a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web

Hi, I'm Ian Clarke, creator of the original Freenet, a decentralized and scalable peer-to-peer network which introduced pioneering concepts such as cryptographic contracts, small-world networks, distributed hashtables, and key-addressable data.

Over the past decade, I've been refining a vision for a successor to Freenet. Three years ago, I began developing what is now known as Freenet 2023 or 'Locutus', designed to directly address the growing concerns around privacy, censorship, and data ownership on the World Wide Web.

Freenet 2023 serves …

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