Freenet Renamed to Hyphanet

&gt; This is another demonstration of a complete disconnect between the board of FPI, and the community around Freenet. After giving up initial plans to name Locutus &quot;Freenet 2&quot; in the face of backlash, you and the rest of the board appear to now want still more of Freenet&#x27;s brand recognition. The hope seems to be that the Freenet community, having not been consulted, and reasonably assumed to disagree, will undertake the effort to rename themselves the Freenet Classic community.<p>The community doesn’t seem too pleased with this.

Freenet: created by Ian Clarke in 1999<p>Freenet 2023: created by Ian Clarke in 2022-2023<p>Honestly I find it difficult to sympathize with people who get so attached to a system that they can&#x27;t deal with being labeled as using the old version when the creator of that system wants to improve it 20 years later.<p>He has similar broad goals for the new system and I say every right to use the name. Why would people get so bent out of shape about being Freenet 1.0 and having a 2.0 exist now?<p>It would be different if the other developers involved with Freenet over the years had significantly modernized it or created a new paradigm, but that&#x27;s not the case.<p>When people fail to adapt it makes me think they have cognitive limitations.

I&#x27;m mildly surprised to discover freenet is still in development, I remember when it had just been launched, and that it was somewhat terrible to use compared to same-era p2p software, tho of course it had a much bigger vision then most (all?).<p>Is anyone running a node these days? What is your experience and reason?

What&#x27;s the canonical pronunciation of this?

I&#x27;ve had some interest in these projects over the years, but few offer any means to control the kind of content your node serves. This is intentional, of course, and any suggestion otherwise is heresy. If you want some privacy enhancing network, tell me how you intend to keep it clean.