I really want to like Freenet. The idea of a serverless network with resources distributed amongst the nodes is such an elegant solution. It makes even more sense today with the easy access to fiber or high-speed cable and cheap storage. It's everything I wish the internet as a whole could be.

But when I've used it the experience was absolutely dreadful. It's difficult to find anything, and there's a lot of emphasis on trusted peers, but I don't know anyone who has even heard of this, and it's unclear how you'd find nodes to trust. Also it's horribly slow and the proxy server eats a ton of resources.

I think it's a beautiful concept with massive potential, but I'm extremely skeptical it will ever find widespread use