---
title: "Freenet"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/freenet-qdpmcb7d4
source_url: https://freenet.org/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-10-27T21:02:44.961Z
updated: 2024-12-09T11:01:08.293Z
tags: ["open-source", "privacy", "cryptography", "decentralization"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 11
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Freenet

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 11 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Freenet is proposed as a decentralized replacement for the centralized internet dominated by a few corporations. It aims to address issues such as censorship, data exploitation, and user exclusion from essential services. Freenet offers solutions to problems like spam, DDoS attacks, and data privacy. The platform supports decentralized alternatives to current services, ensuring interoperability, scalability, and security through cryptographic techniques.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://freenet.org/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@petermrozek** · 0 upvotes

> I'm getting Tor vibes here and looking at how Tor ended up (dark web basically), it's not something I would like to consider. Too much anonymity, as well as too much surveillance, is harmful (as is any other extreme). A solution already exists and we just need to start using it. The Fediverse is enough to decentralize the web and yank it out of the hands of "big tech". And we don't need another layer on top to do so.

**@reinhardt** · 0 upvotes

> I'm more thinking libp2p/quic

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Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#cryptography](https://daily.dev/tags/cryptography), [#decentralization](https://daily.dev/tags/decentralization)

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