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Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Matrix... it's on such a good path I can't complain. Adoption could be faster but it's alright.

I2p, although I have no idea if the lack of adoption has not a very good reason.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I second Matrix, though I've been waiting for e2ee direct p2p (the Dendrite project) do be worked on for a while. Having something like that, that's truly decentralized while secure and hiding metadata where possible, would be a dream.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Apparently dendrite is just on maintenance due to insufficient funds. It was what i set up on a test instance because it is lighter, etc. Go figure.

[–] technom 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Conduit might be an option. It's still under development. It's also lightweight due to Rust (instead of Python as in Synapse).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah I've been following that. It seemed at the time the project didn't implement nearly all the specs as dendrite which was still lagging synapse.

Might take another look though. I really did want to use it since it was written in rust. Seemed it should probably be more performant, everything else being equal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I love i2p. I wish it had more adoption / was easier to use.