Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Matrix I have doubts about. The idea of Tox was nicer, but the implementation quality and the scandal at some point didn’t help.

    Tox felt more playable, like piping files over it or a remote shell over it (I know, bad associations, but still), or even using it for VPN. I think there were clients allowing to do such stuff, and the protocol allows it.

    EDIT: I mean, it’s still alive, just don’t see it claiming the place of FOSS old Skype replacement as it did.

    GNUNet - all you people mentioning it have peers? I tried to set it up a few weeks ago, couldn’t get peers.

    Yggdrasil - feels cool.

    I2P - not intended for that, I think.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months ago

      I2P - not intended for that, I think.

      to be clear, I2P is not really intended for anything, it’s used for everything. It supports all kinds of things, and there are people doing all kinds of things on it. Though i could see potential technological limitations being a problem.

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      7 months ago

      About Tox, I am not a fan of mixing up universal delivering of packets and applications. Piping files or using as VPS feels like something that would be better done with proper full network and not be mixed with chat.

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        7 months ago

        I, on the contrary, think it’s cool for things to be universal, layered and reusable for different tasks.