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Worth noting GNUnet has been around in at least name since 2001, back in the heady days when peer-to-peer was the new hotness. Was it the next Napster? Competition for JXTA? An evolution of Freenet? The reality is it wasn't very much of anything back then. I've got no idea how the project of today relates to the project of the same name 18 years ago.
If anything could be made more clear, let us know as feedback.
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That is GNU Jami?
I have no idea if they use the same protocols and network, but a brief read at Jami features seems to indicate there is some sort of decentralization. My experience with it when it still was called Ring wasn't exactly positive though, I hope it got better in the meantime.
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Here's a few things GNUnet replaces and why it's better: Bittorrent is replaced by GNUnet "filesharing", it's trackerless, it provides a search function, users can adjust their level of anonymity for publishing, downloading, and searching. DNS is replaced by "GNS", it covers the "decentralized" and "secure" points in Zooko's triangle, it a pet name system. VPN is replaced by GNUnet VPN, which is just VPN over GNUnet…
We should maybe include a "GNUnet in 5 minutes or less" on the website. The old LEGO analogy is nice, and lynX did a great comparison here: https://secushare.org/img/stack-comparison.png We don't really need the ISO OSI model here, but even this can be added, as we've already used it throughout the years to compare to the GNUnet stack.
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There is the command-line interface `gnunet-publish`, `gnunet-search` and `gnunet-download`. There is nim chat application: https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet-nim.git/ There is also an unmaintained guile bulletin board: https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet-guile2.git/
Looks like voice communications are also possible. https://docs.gnunet.org/#First-steps-_002d-Using-GNUnet-Conv... Now that makes it interesting; imagine a few micro routers such as the TpLink TL-MR3020 or any other similar device that once turned on boot their OpenWRT with GNUnet extensions then connect together allowing the users to talk each other no matter where they are located. That would be a killer applicatio…
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That is GNU Jami?
I have no idea if they use the same protocols and network, but a brief read at Jami features seems to indicate there is some sort of decentralization. My experience with it when it still was called Ring wasn't exactly positive though, I hope it got better in the meantime.
[0] - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/ring/2017-09/msg00011.htm...
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We should maybe include a "GNUnet in 5 minutes or less" on the website. The old LEGO analogy is nice, and lynX did a great comparison here: https://secushare.org/img/stack-comparison.png We don't really need the ISO OSI model here, but even this can be added, as we've already used it throughout the years to compare to the GNUnet stack.
I think somewhere we mentioned before that gnunet does not require ISPs and IXPs, but using them today is the de-facto default state.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959687
Which I shall also link to directly, but the above also has some relevance:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864808
See especially here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867532
And here:
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I think somewhere we mentioned before that gnunet does not require ISPs and IXPs, but using them today is the de-facto default state.
May I draw your attention to my old comment here, as well as (more importantly), the entire thread of even older comments /it/ links to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959687 Which I shall also link to directly, but the above also has some relevance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864808 See especially here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867532 And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1…