Posting here because this sub is the one place where I do not have to explain the premise. You already know what a site addressed by a keypair is, and why that matters. So I will skip that part and go straight to where mine differs, including where it is worse.

I built CAPSULE because I did not want to trust anyone. Every service I used to send a file said it was encrypted, and all of them could still read my files. That is the part that gets leaked, scanned and sold. The question is not whether something is encrypted. It is who has the key.

A .capsule address is an Ed25519 public key, 56 characters of base32, same construction as an onion v3 address. Nobody issues it, nobody renews it, and the only thing that can publish under it is whoever holds the private half. Records carry a sequence number, so an old version cannot be served as current.

The host cannot read the site. A ZeroNet peer seeds files it can open; a CAPSULE relay stores one encrypted blob, padded to a size class, under a neutral filename, and the key that opens it lives in the part of the link that browsers never send to a server. The relay knows it is holding something and nothing else.

A page cannot make a single network request. The extension does not display a site, it rebuilds it: bundle references become data: URLs, anything pointing at the open web is removed, <base> and meta refresh are deleted, and the result lands in an opaque origin under connect-src 'none' with no scripts by default. No fonts, no pixels, no beacons. That is a property of the format rather than a setting.

The whole site downloads at once. No partial fetch, on purpose: asking for one file at a time would tell the host which pages you read.

Where it is worse than ZeroNet, and I want to be clear about this

Relays are servers, not peers. Somebody has to run one, and if nobody near you does, you are stuck. ZeroNet's seeding model is more decentralised than mine in the way that actually counts, and I do not have a good answer for that yet beyond "relays are one process and anyone can run one".

And the network is small. There is a mix network in it, Sphinx packets, uniform size, per hop delays, so that the relay storing a capsule never learns who asked. Routing through relays that one person runs protects nobody, and that is close to what exists today. It gets better when other people run relays. Nothing else fixes it.

Code: https://github.com/missingus3r/CAPSULE

What it is: https://missingus3r.github.io/CAPSULE/

MIT, no token, no company. docs/THREAT_MODEL.md and docs/MIXNET.md are the ones that say what does not work, including the paragraph above. No external audit, which for a security project is a real gap and not a formality.

Genuinely interested in what this sub thinks of the relay-versus-peer choice. It is the decision I am least sure about.

I tried using ZeroNet recently and after several hours of frustration trying and failing to get Zeronet-Conservancy and ZeroNetX's native Linux ports to function on CachyOS, I gave up and used the Windows port of ZeroNetX via Wine.

I checked one of the forums on the network and found a thread recommending people move to an incompatible fork named EpixNet which was designed essentially to overhaul the project from its core. Sounds cool, right? So I tried using it and after another half hour of dealing with its Linux port being allergic to functioning on my system, I fired it up in Wine and went to a forum on that network to try and figure out what its equivalent to ZeroID is. Just one problem: xID, as its equivalent is called, requires a 10000 EPIX registration fee for most usernames. Now, this isn't exactly expensive. Right now it's about $0.43. But the fact that I even have to buy into some obscure cryptocurrency bullshit to even register a forum account is, to me at least, ridiculous. So I'm looking for other options. Is there anything similar to ZeroNet and EpixNet that's actively updated and doesn't involve buying a sort-of-currency or any other web3 slop just to use forums?

Can the current developer handle it? How hard is the problem?

it's a pity I have to write here not because of new exciting developments, but I regret to inform everyone that this subreddit has been continuously targeted by automod, a lot of innocent or helpful messages gets removed, especially those ones that contain zn urls

unfortunately, even though I'm a mod here, I'm not the high-ranking mod so I don't have access to even see whether this automod actions can be adjusted by subreddit or are part of global reddit censorship system. neither do I even get any notifications on removals

what can be done about this:

• go through a reddit procedure to make me or another active zeronet community member a main mod here so we can see what can be done about it

• just abandon reddit since it's embodies things 0net is opposed to, migrate to better platform

with the current state of affairs I'm not motivated to go with either plan since I consider 0net need important software changes before it make sense to adopt it more widely. but you — yes, you the reader! —(*) can volunteer to initiate either solution

(*): "AI" bad, but dashes are friend

I created my ZeroBlog, but no one comment!

Zeroid is unusable, but there are many alternative IDs. I also just created a few cloned zites!

I tried to run ZeroNet on whonix(using firefox, I want not to modify tor browser's settings) but it return me this error. The package I installed is the lastest, so anybody know how to fix it?

I’ve been working on a project to promote censorship-resistant networks (like Hyphanet, I2P, etc.), and I’ve noticed something strange — many of these networks, even the slower and more complex ones, still seem to have more activity and community support than ZeroNet.

Which is kind of ironic, because ZeroNet’s idea is amazing. It works faster, feels more natural to use, and has so much potential compared to others. Yet it’s slowly fading into obscurity.

Honestly, if it weren’t for Caryoscelus keeping ZeroNet Conservancy alive, the network would probably be gone by now — that person deserves a statue.

So what’s going on here? Why does such a good idea struggle to survive, and what could we — as a community that values free and resilient networks — do to help keep ZeroNet alive?

ZeroNet uses regular Bittorrent trackers and internal tracker plugin called Bootstrapper to help users find other peers, in order to download sites and publish updates through the network. So ZeroNet users can also run their own ZN tracker to help decentralize the network.

Prerequisites:

1) regularly running computer with Zeronet

2a) server in a datacenter (usually has all ports open by default) or

2b) home computer where you control the router device and can forward/open certain port to your Zeronet PC so it accepts remote peer connections.

Setup:

1. run ZeroNet, open ZN based tutorial http://127.0.0.1:43110/1LfvE91ZF18jdG3wW62Dw7NtfTZh737KPL/?Topic:1747042241_1L4dZcDF2maSKHDy788yhxpYnBWnXadUtS (if you continue having problems connecting, you may try to manually add some popular trackers to your ZN at http://127.0.0.1:43110/Config

2. on the above linked tutorial page, do Ctrl+F and search for "tracker", after second occurrence should be tutorial for Linux, but you may be able to adjust it also for other OS. It is about enabling Bootstrapper plugin of ZeroNet. ( Plugins are accessible via ZN page http://127.0.0.1:43110/Plugins )

3. Regarding port forwarding (opening port) - in case your ZN computer is in a LAN (not a server in DC), you can search for a tutorial applicable for your LAN/WAN router and then edit firewall (if applicable) to accept incoming connections to your ZN port 15441.

So with the internet censorship/monitoring bullshit that is happening Is there any decentralized reddit alternative and could we see a ZeroNet comeback?

It seems that since some time (I haven't been active since march this year, so I assume sometime between may and late july) canewsin's https://zeronet.dev is no longer working; so doesn't their https://proxy.zeronet.dev

This sucks.

P.S. According to the only existing snapshot of this page, I assume it was taken down on 25th of June, 2025.

I vaguely remember there being some drama, but that was ages ago. Why is there still too parallel forks being developed? Surely it would make more sense if they merge together into one project and collaborate on development resources.

Last full release from both projects was in 2023.

Is one fork doing something different to the other to justify the split, or is it just two devs not wanting to work with one another?

I have been trying this app on Android for a while now, but it frequently gives the error "UiServer Websocket was lost" every time after connecting and entering the web. I don't know how this is going to work. Please help me; I use the Samsung S22 Ultra.

https://reddit.com/link/1llw13h/video/8ntzdouxhh9f1/player

Hola lo descargue, lo descomprimi y ejecute el .exe
entre a la ip local y me sale todo el rato lo mismo que en este mini video.

alguien sabe porque puede ser? gracias :)

Can't open port. Or, to be precise, port is opened and forwarded in my router, but zeronet still says it is closed. Also can't connect to any site, and I am talking about main sites in the left which you see on main page (ZeroTalk etc).

I’ve been looking for a place like this especially with the .bit domain!

One quick question, does this operate with ipfs at all?

Okay it appears to not be compatible due to the nature of the protocol. Does anyone know of ongoing efforts to integrate some compatibility?

I am interested in privacy, which is how I found my way here.

I have been using a ZeroNet fork and it is amazing, also tried other stuff like ip2 and a few more. I was wondering are there any p2p/torrent style apps, and i dont mean essentially about website coult be something completely different. I am just very interested in the topic right now. Thank you

EDIT: I know about IPFS

I have been using Zeronet for a while and I want to contribute to this project. I have some background on python and encryption. I know the community is less active compared to early days and only a few developers are working on. But the idea of fully P2P network is great and I want to help keeping it alive.

I've already tried on the computer, using several browsers, and this screenshot is from my cell phone, what should I do?

Hello, is it currently possible to register a ZeroID on ZeroNet or is the process broken? I tried to request a cert on zeroid.bit and it only says "error undefined." The other option bitmessage, is deprecated. Is there another way to do this?