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!

        • @[email protected]
          1•1 year ago

          There’s proctored private resale of IPv4.

          A lot of orgs (mine included) are sitting on large chunks of IPs they don’t need (we have a /16 and several /24s) because they adopted early, got an ASN and prefix assigned by ARIN, and their addressing scheme is now so disjointed and scattered that they can’t sell off anything bigger than a /22, and that makes setting up BGP a pain. Juice ain’t worth the squeeze.

    • @[email protected]
      7•1 year 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.

      • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
        2•1 year 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.

        • @[email protected]
          3•1 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        What scandal did Matrix have? I only just tried out Matrix like a month ago and am unaware of anything like that.

    • @[email protected]
      17•1 year ago

      I really hope matrix gets native VoIP. I saw like 2 years ago it was in beta, haven’t kept up with it though. I’d also really like voice channels like discord so my friends and I can replace discord but it seems like matrix isn’t interested in being a discord replacement

      • ducklingoneEnglish
        12•1 year ago

        Matrix can be configured to have VoIP. I have it set up on my server. Haven’t tried it in group voice chat setting yet though. Only 1 on 1