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The key to understanding it is just not to expect it to have mass appeal, ever. It lowers barriers for developers and tech hobbyists. It is a nice crunchy area
by velcrovan 5y ago
The key to understanding it is just not to expect it to have mass appeal, ever. It lowers barriers for developers and tech hobbyists. It is a nice crunchy area for developers to have fun with that doesn’t require herculean feats of programming to serve or consume. It's like ham radio.
My only beef with it is we already have gopher!
- spc476 5y agoBut gopher doesn't have TLS. Yes, there are clients that attempt to make TLS connections to gopher servers and will fall back to plain TCP on failure, but that's a hack (and a pretty annoying one at that).
- owroomexorcist 5y agoWhat's wrong with not having TLS? If it's just for hobbiests to share text documents, why include a TLS layer?
- capableweb 5y agoSuddenly you can't trust anything you're being served as there are so many endpoints you could be MITM'd at. Reading a text about some experience someone had? Snippets from that text could have been replaced if you are not using any cryptographic protocol what so ever.
- owroomexorcist 5y agoFair point. But if we're talking about a protocol not meant for the mainstream, is it really an attack vector to worry about?
- spc476 5y agoFor some, yes.