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I have seen a lot of their presentations at 33C3. Its quite interesting ideas that I was quite interested in. The problem with GNUnet in general that it seem v
by nickik 7y ago
I have seen a lot of their presentations at 33C3. Its quite interesting ideas that I was quite interested in.
The problem with GNUnet in general that it seem very inaccessible to those outside of the university context. In their presentation they show that they did all these great test, but very little how I can run them, or achieve things with GNUnet. GNUnet is academic and has not yet found any real-world use case that I know off and thus suffers the problem of academic projects.
Overall they have a very interesting vision of what you can do, but its pretty far in the future and the website is a bit of nonsense. It took me a couple hours of listing to the craters to understand what they were really trying to do.
- F3nd0 7y agoHave you gotten in touch with the developers? They recently redesigned their website, and are trying to make the project more approachable in general. If you have any remarks or suggestions for improvement, I'm sure they would be appreciated! (There's a contact page: https://gnunet.org/en/engage.html https://gnunet.org/en/engage.html) But yes, most of the sub-projects seem experimental, or on a low level and lacking a pleasant way for people to make use of them. It seems possible to integrate the GNU Name System into a web browser, though, and re:claimID (https://reclaim-identity.io/ https://reclaim-identity.io/) has an add-on in development. GNUnet news list some ‘major design issues’ they're aware of, so hopefully stuff like filesharing will work well enough once those are fixed.
- nickik 7y agoI have seen an looked at some of these efforts, and its very nice. I don't really have usecase, or time to work on a project like that. I'm sure if you get into it, you can lots of information but I have observed with multiple people that they start reading are interested and then drop out quickly.