* <> Decentralized social networking, publishing, and so-on First I saw a link to Matrix, a federation-based communication system, and thought it was pretty neat. The usual buzzwords: RESTful HTTP API with JSON. Then the Matrix website led me to PSYC and GNUnet. Much more interesting. P2P, multicast, anonymous – somewhat esoteric, but very interesting. The PSYC/Secure Share authors make strong cases against federation and traditional DNS and Web-based communication. I tried to get GNUnet working, but failed. The idea of publishing and messaging via peer networks is very intriguing to me, but... the whole thing is sort-of nebulous in my mind right now. Something I need to think on more before I can make any kind of useful comment in here. -- Excerpted from: PUBLIC NOTES (G) http://alph.laemeur.com/txt/PUBNOTES-G ©2016 Adam C. Moore (LÆMEUR)