Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants

Re:Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connec... by lmm on Thursday May 08, 2025 @03:17AM (#43923892)

> A VPN is used to create (the illusion of) privacy when accessing anything on the internet.

Not really. Some more recent "VPN" products position themselves that way, but traditionally a VPN has been a way to have something that behaves like a private LAN between computers that are not physically connected to each other (hence the name).

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Re:Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connec... by tornadofart on Thursday May 08, 2025 @03:24AM (#43923921)

I would say that for most laypersons, VPN is used for two things: accessing your remote work resources and accessing content banned in your country.

As was patiently explained to me, Mycoria relies to quite an extent on the network effect: you can only use it if other nodes are using it, using it by yourself does not make sense. So the informed layperson's perspective is relevant here. That's why I insist on "dumbing it down" :D

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Re:Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connec... by Jarwain on Thursday May 08, 2025 @03:54AM (#43924059)

To fit a layperson's understanding maybe the term VPLAN or VPWAN would work? Except I'm not sure laypeople really know what a WAN is. I think more people know LAN but then there could be confusion with VLANs.

Names are hard.

Personally this Mycoria reminds me more of a global tailnet I.e tailscale's VPN

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Re:Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connec... by Jarwain on Thursday May 08, 2025 @04:02AM (#43924101)

And I guess as an extension, at least currently, Mycoria is an option for building "darknet services" except the privacy aspects aren't quite there yet compared to tor?

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