People

Who is behind Unseenet: who created it, who develops and maintains it, the team, the contributors and the developers, and who does what. Anyone who joins the project adds themselves here by pull request.

Two of the names below are not people: an AI assistant and GitHub's automation. They are listed because their work shows up everywhere - commits, release notes, posts in the project's groups - and you should know who (or what) made it.

People

Name	Role	Where to find them
Andreas Lorensen	Started the project and maintains it: the protocol, the node, the clients, the project's nodes and keys. Approves UN-RFCs and pull requests.	GitHub @andlo; on Unseenet in unseenet and unseenet.help

For now, that is everybody. If you would like to help - run a node, write a client, review a UN-RFC, improve the docs - say so in unseenet or open an issue.

Not people

Name	What it is	What it does
Claude	An AI assistant made by Anthropic, working for Andreas	Writes code, specs and docs with him; merges pull requests, tags releases and writes release notes when he asks. Commits and texts it wrote are reviewed by Andreas. It is not a member of the project in its own right and does not speak for it.
GitHub Actions	GitHub's automation	Runs the tests and builds the portable and bootable releases. With the GitHub poster key (see The project's keys) it posts releases to unseenet.announce, the node list to unseenet.nodes, the root and hierarchy lists, and the daily canaries.

Bots on Unseenet

Bots have their own keys and say that they are bots in their profile (UN-RFC 0022).

Bot	Where	What
Unseenet help (bot)	unseenet.help	Answers questions from the documentation, issues and pull requests when nobody has after a while, or right away when named @helpbot. It cites its sources and can be wrong. Code: unseenet-helpbot.
The news bots	alt.news.*, alt.history.onthisday, alt.privacy.eff, alt.space.nasa	Post current content from open sources, credited in each post. Code: unseenet-bots.