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evilos | on: Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
> but pretending nobody knows what is being referred to is not a serious argument

The claim is that it's too broad to be useful. But as I said earlier, this is all besides the point.

sanity | parent
It's clearly an effective label, otherwise it wouldn't be so widely used.

The real objection is that supporters of the ideology dislike the characterization embedded in the term.

evilos | root | parent
Effective as a social signal, absolutely. Not for anything substantive.

Again, besides the point.