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not saying you shouldn't build things, but maybe your efforts would be more useful if you were contributing to already existing networks like i2p

KennyBlanken 1y ago
Not just i2p - there are established, existing projects nearly identical. Most of these have fallen on their faces because they can't get sufficient adoption rates, and a big part of that is because they refuse to acknowledge that 90%+ of the desktop computer market isn't running Linux or BSD. Some of them include a half-assed attempt at a Windows client and few if any support MacOS despite it having something like 20-30% of the desktop market
- johnisgood 1y ago
  Please provide a list of existing projects. I want to look around.
  - dovholuknf 1y ago
    The project I am a maintainer on, OpenZiti is an open source project that has high-quality MacOS, iOS, Windows, Android and linux clients https://openziti.io/docs/learn/introduction/ https://openziti.io/docs/learn/introduction/ OpenZiti underpins the private connectivity from zrok, another opensource project and is one of the ones that is __not__ riding on wireguard which many people think is a good thing, but sometimes people are interested in a wireguard-based approach. There is a huge list of alternatives as well you can find at https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. You can find OpenZiti and zrok on there but the github urls if interested are https://github.com/openziti/ziti https://github.com/openziti/ziti and https://github.com/openziti/zrok https://github.com/openziti/zrok
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    - johnisgood 1y ago
      So... Tor, i2p, OpenZiti, and what else can you think of? Zrok seems nice. Right now I use LocalSend to share files between some of my devices, but it is not encrypted at all IIRC, and as the name suggests, it is only "local". I wonder how zrok compares to OnionShare.

KennyBlanken 1y ago

Not just i2p - there are established, existing projects nearly identical. Most of these have fallen on their faces because they can't get sufficient adoption rates, and a big part of that is because they refuse to acknowledge that 90%+ of the desktop computer market isn't running Linux or BSD. Some of them include a half-assed attempt at a Windows client and few if any support MacOS despite it having something like 20-30% of the desktop market

johnisgood 1y ago
Please provide a list of existing projects. I want to look around.
- dovholuknf 1y ago
  The project I am a maintainer on, OpenZiti is an open source project that has high-quality MacOS, iOS, Windows, Android and linux clients https://openziti.io/docs/learn/introduction/ https://openziti.io/docs/learn/introduction/ OpenZiti underpins the private connectivity from zrok, another opensource project and is one of the ones that is __not__ riding on wireguard which many people think is a good thing, but sometimes people are interested in a wireguard-based approach. There is a huge list of alternatives as well you can find at https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. You can find OpenZiti and zrok on there but the github urls if interested are https://github.com/openziti/ziti https://github.com/openziti/ziti and https://github.com/openziti/zrok https://github.com/openziti/zrok
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  - johnisgood 1y ago
    So... Tor, i2p, OpenZiti, and what else can you think of? Zrok seems nice. Right now I use LocalSend to share files between some of my devices, but it is not encrypted at all IIRC, and as the name suggests, it is only "local". I wonder how zrok compares to OnionShare.