More than ever, we need networking protocols which are resilient, privacy preserving, bandwidth conserving, able to run on low-spec hardware, and not quite as preoccupied with being the global network for everyone ever.
We’re delighted to present Willow, a new family of peer-to-peer protocols that cater to just that niche. https://willowprotocol.org is a guide to those protocols, with full specifications, ~50 hand-drawn diagrams, illustrations, and comics, and much more besides.
Our thanks to @NGIZero for supporting this project!
Have any #p2p people used #Keet ? Built on on #Hypercore. Looking for a good hole punching implementation and i was told this was a good one. I just tried it out between my laptop (behind university firewall/NAT) and cell phone (on mobile network), and I had one issue connecting, but after an update was able to connect in both directions no problem. No login, no account, no phone number, and allegedly e2e without needing a public server to coordinate the holepunch. need to check out how that's implemented. if this checks out i'm like damn this might be better than Signal (which i love)
Tangentially related to tonight's unhinged tooting about #hypercore and #ipfs I put together a scrappy guide on how to set up your own Distributed Press instance, problems and all:
More specifically, I want to know if IPFS would be necessary for persistent data storage on a distributed social media platform that uses Holepunch's software suite.