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I've heard it said they forced Freenet to stop focusing on anonymization, which caused a fork and name change of the original Freenet to Hyphanet.
Link or didn't happen
https://floss.social/@Freenet/114439179072545405
Site doesn't load. Here's a link to the article
https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html
But it doesn't say anything about futo
Here's the toot:
@light The funding by FUTO sadly led to the forced renaming: https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html
That new project does not have privacy as a goal.
We (Hyphanet) are fully volunteer-driven now. #Hyphanet has been working pretty well for the past two decades and is continuing to move forward. Features:
⇒ https://www.hyphanet.org/ @caten