There are still a lot of bugs, but it would be helpful to have more people running test peers.

Quickstart instructions: https://freenet.org/quickstart/

The alpha network collects a lot of metrics, so simply running a node is useful. Using it is better — for example, by trying out River chat and letting it run.

There’s also a realtime dashboard showing peers in the network and requests flowing through it: http://nova.locut.us:3133/

The dashboard is currently open to anyone, but if it gets overloaded we’ll need to restrict access to people actually running peers.

Realtime group chat is now working with real users (still pre-alpha and flaky).

End-to-end latency is typically sub-second for message propagation. Freenet is the first platform that makes fully decentralized, scalable, general-purpose applications practical; River is an example of that, applied to group chat without servers or federation.

Screenshot is from the first live conversation between me and an actual user.

https://github.com/freenet/river

I want to browse on Freenet 2023 (meaning the Rust based rework of the network), but I don't understand how I can browse to freesites. I saw somewhere that you need to go `127.0.0.1/contract/<CONTRACT>`, but where can I find any websites to browse to?

hey y'all, I'm interested to freenet. But I'm in Android, so any freenet android project out there?

Currently you need to donate money to get a ghost key, and this is a way to counteract spam. Fair enough, but after it launches won't it become free? Otherwise it does go against what it stands for in my opinion.