Freenet
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Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized applications—communication, collaboration, and commerce without reliance on big tech. Your computer becomes part of a global network where apps are unstoppable, interoperable, and built on open protocols.
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- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux Mobile
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Comments and Reviews
I've been using freenet for a bit also just discovered freefold an alternative to reddit and fre bird an alternative to twitter. gotta say as a person who left Discord and twitter because of a lack of transparency and complacency and too many bitches whinin about anti Ai bullshit or all men bad trauma dumping their projections onto other people without having the decency and respect to shut the fuck up. I was looking at the types of stuff people post on fre bird and freefold and I was like. hey this place is nice and cozy! Its not toxic here. its really nice and with the fact you dont get instant replies its very quiet despite having access to a social sphere of sorts. so, i genuinely like the social apps on freenet more then the ones that we got currently available. I would like the others but sadly people are too afraid of the unknown unwilling to get out of their comfort zones. comfortable with the complacency and lack of transparency that they just ride the status quo as the way it is. its really sad. that it has to take people to build a project that hardly anyone is talking about just in order to find such a peaceful community to be in that you can easily walk away from without feeling addicted to it.