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Ian Clarke

Freenet - The internet, without the gatekeepers.

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Imagine if the internet wasn't controlled by a handful of giant corporations. Freenet is a platform for building applications that run on a peer-to-peer network instead of centralized servers. That means no cloud provider, app store, or platform owner gets to decide whether your application continues to exist. Build social networks, marketplaces, collaborative tools, AI systems, and other applications on infrastructure owned by its users.

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Ian Clarke
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Hi, I'm Ian. I started the original Freenet project in 1999 because I was worried about how much power the internet would eventually concentrate in the hands of a few organizations. Unfortunately, that prediction aged pretty well. The project we're launching today is a complete rethinking of Freenet. The goal is simple: make it possible to build applications that don't depend on any company continuing to exist or continuing to approve of what you're doing. Whether you're interested in decentralization, distributed systems, AI, or just think this is a terrible idea, I'd genuinely like to hear what you think.