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Re:GNUnet 0.14.0 by karmakaze on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:15PM (#25094782)
This part gave me a sense of what it's doing:

> Decentralization is the key, but hard

> Instead of sharing common components and tools for building P2P systems, every P2P project seems to re-invent the wheel. This heightens the effort and increases the potential number of vulnerabilities.

I think the way to be successful here is to first make a killer app that uses the stack. Then since it's wildly successful and the framework is open can gain adoption for other applications.

Re:GNUnet 0.14.0 by summm on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:15PM (#25095693)
This. 1000 times THIS! They have so many cool bits of tech, but somehow managed to never have any of them however small evolving to be a killer app.
Re:GNUnet 0.14.0 by nickik on Sunday November 15, 2020 @04:51AM (#25099747)
Exactly, I have been hopping they really go after DNS replacement. There system is quite elegant.

But I have long ago stop believing something practically usable will ever come from GNUnet.