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!

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    11 months ago
    • IPv6, needed for modern Internet not to collapse, would make many other important things easier. Easier to become an ISP, to selfhost, to build P2P networks, etc.
    • GNU Taler, a payment protocol just look at it go: https://101010.pl/@didek/111934952208145427, or just imagine building a payment terminal of a Raspberry Pi
    • Matrix, to unify chat, conference and calling apps
    • some self-arranging darknet protocol becoming a norm like I2P, GNUNet or Yggdrasil, so we could have a backup when mass Internet blockage happen
      • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        11 months ago

        There are no IPv4 addresses left. So you eather go IPv6-only, which would make many services not work. Or wait in a long queue to repurpose address spaces marked as depracated which would soon run out too. And then you put clients behind double or triple NAT doing having shitty service.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
      0·
      11 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.