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Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

i2p. It's sorta like Tor, but the way that every user is a node provides some advantages over Tor.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A few years ago there was a Lemmy instance on I2P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

was? so it's not anymore?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yea I think it shut down due to lack of users/interest. This was before Lemmy even had federation working, so much smaller community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh damn, I didn't even know lemmy didn't have federation at first

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Also the user interface and builtin solutions for torrenting, hosting, address booking make it way more user friendly for people to start using I find.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

so would you be able to run ipfs under i2p to have a secure and private ipfs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Technically yes by rewriting ipfs's code, but due to ipfs's flaws you would be better off using something like freenet/hyphanet which has been designed for that purpose and has been successfully running since 2000, with the added benefit that the data is actually stored in the network by others instead of just by you (at least when you often request the data)