I am a Freenet user and want you to succeed so look at my words from
that angle.
You are missing out on an obvious natural alliance with Tor that can
bring in many benefits from funding, users, publicity and manpower. The
Tor project also invested a lot in private client side applications like
the Tor browser and Tor birdy that you can combine. Not to denigrate
your work but its fact, their anonymity transport layer is more advanced
and has undergone more scrutiny and is trusted. I've talked with people
who love the Freenet concept but are reluctant to use it because they
don't feel its powerful enough to withstand NSA. I find it hard to
convince them otherwise when there is a trickle of papers about
Freenet's anonymity protection and no mention of it being a challenge to
NSA like the Tor slides and they trust what Snowden used.
With that said, Freenet's real power is resilient and distributed data
hosting, unmatched by Tor hidden services that were designed as an
afterthought. Together both technologies are a perfect fit. They should
not compete.
My point here is to keep the parts of the protocol where Freenet users
can automatically find each other and request data but to offload the
traffic hiding part to Tor. Don't put users in a situation where they
have to choose between both. Each project does one thing well and
together they give users the cypherpunk vision of freedom.
More users means more technical people who will become interested and
help out. It becomes self sustaining. You've built it but you need to
integrate it right and they will come.
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