Comment by schmoooo

1 day ago

fair enough, i take it.

unfortunately open source is unthankful and if you work on something novel and different its even harder, so if anyone secures funding by compromising and then using that to spread different marketing it can be very frustrating.

the thread started woth the post of the dat ecosystem website.

...since then it was declared dead by some. then at proto was framed as some sort of "successor. then iroh used the opportunity to plug their project.

all of them with their own marketing budget and funding, so this makes it really tough for very passionate and personally invested open source community with no VC funding

so fai enough, a calmer answer would read nicer, but its not always easy.

...if you are interested in more particular issues i can of course elaborate and provide more details - technically or otherwise.

cheers

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ch71r22  21 hours ago

It sounds like you are more tapped into this space than me. I'm not trying to push any angle. Apologies if it sounded like I was trying to diminish dat or other projects. I think all of these projects are interesting

A few years ago, I was pretty excited about this but just as a casual observer. I'm out of the loop now

I'd be interested to hear what projects you think are the most exciting to follow these days

  • schmoooo  17 hours ago

    Depends what you are most interested in.

    There is a lot of effort being invested towards finally enabeling dat in regular web browsers.

    There is quibble linked in different comments on this hackernews post and there is https://keet.io ...both p2p messengers, the former open source, the latter more mature.

    There is paraQL for a p2p sql relational database.

    There is datrs for an implementation of the core primitives in rust.

    there is the already linked https://holesail.io to make any kind of service available via p2p

    and a lot of other things.

    and then you have the cross platform pear runtime for building p2p apps and bare runtime as a lean minimal but extensible and embeddable js cross platform runtime.

    you'll see new apps released soon. One i am waiting for is a p2p enabled bitcoin wallet, the other one a "rss reader" combined with a p2p blogging engine. i assume that will happen within this year.