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:

• websites
• Microblog (Sone)
• Chat (FLIP: IRC server)
• Forums (FMS)
• decentralized database

⇒ https://www.hyphanet.org/ @caten

https://floss.social/@Freenet/114439179072545405

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.

I’m guessing Rossmann has problematic political beliefs that he, fortunately, doesn’t talk much about publicly. It looks like he was a Destiny fan.

Firefox and derivatives (e.g. Librewolf) have private built-in, on-device translation.