Nostr is very promising : https://nostr.com/
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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I've heard they tend to harbor a lot of alt-right types. Possibly because users can't really get banned. Is that true?
We have a lot of projects like that. Too much for anything to go mainstream actually. We need to focus on one or a few so we have higher chance of popularizing it
Associating with crypto-fraud is a hard no for many users (I am referring to Nostro which was developed by a crypto-bro).
i don't trust it because it is very big on the design meaning to be "censorship resistant" and there are certain kinds of posts that people make that probably should be censored, and while i like that some tools exist to make pseudononymous, censorship-resistant communications possible (tor and i2p are good. freenet is fine imho), this one looks like a grift that has a neon sign saying "censorship resistant".... and i am sure that associating with those people will lead to encountering some of that material that probably should be censored.
the problem i see with nostr is that it implements a bunch of pro-cryptocurrency ideas: like paying to use relays for example and with all the sustainability issues regarding crypto and us wanting to create a better network, i would like to leave money out of it
IPFS seems like it's dying but I still have high hopes for it
It is an excellent concept. I wish there was a more common "killer service/use case", something like a imagehost but without all the bullshit and corporate changes (like the recent issues with imgur).
Anyone have any experience with yggdrasil, particularly in context of remote access to self-hosted services?
It just works. You install yggdrasil on all your devices that support ipv6, you write down ipv6 of all devices you want to connect to, you type the ygg ipv6 and connect, as long as ports are open.
Good to hear. I am very cautious about remote access and yggdrasil seemed like the perfect solution.
I do remember IPv6 being a pain point, by provider then (2018) didn't support it. My current ISP is planning to add IPv6 support, but still isn't there yet. :(
While development seems to be strong, their website and documentation is also still lacking.
You don't need to have ipv6 support by your provider, it's ipv6 over ipv4. You only need your hardware (phones, laptops) and software (OS, servers, clients) to support ipv6.
I use it to play LAN games with my friend from other country, kind of like Hamachi, but FOSS.
Interesting, will need to do some digging.
Doesn't all the Fediverse count?
yes, it and email are probably the two most widespread ones, i didn't include it because it's already pretty known
Netsukuku… Now that is something I haven't heard about in ages.
I'm kinda sad that theres almost no new work being made on top of it, seems even more promising than yggdrasil in some aspects
- https://zotlabs.org/help/developer/zot_protocol with single sign-on and nomadic identity
- https://solidproject.org/
Interesting ones i didn't know about^^