#MaidSafe (or as I've been calling them, "the maiden savers") announces more improvements in #SAFE_Network. This again sounds like "we're almost ready", but they are quite a bit closer than they were before.
There was a guy that used to talk about MaidSafe all the time on Diaspora. Now he has a Mastodon account, so he occasionally links an announcement.
So the way I understand it, SAFE Network is supposed to combine secure and distributed network storage, some sort of identifiers meant to protect against corporate surveillance, various applications & services running on the platform, and (non-blockchain?) transactions. I'm sure I'm not telling all the good things it is supposed to do or enable nor all the bad things it is supposed to prevent.
It has been interesting to check back on the project once in a while to see how far they've gotten. In all honesty, their development process seemed pretty slow, so seeing some updates this year, it seems like they broke through some important barrier.
One more thing: I've never tried it. I may or may not decide to try it once they have their official launch (currently they're running temporary testing networks). So not an endorsement.
I'm just interested in seeing the things people are doing to try to free people from the control of corporations.
One thing I want to do while I'm home is set up some p2pnet endpoints on #RasPi or other SBC boards on a separate subnet from the rest of my network.
In particular, I'm thinking about #SafeNetwork / #MaidSafe (or as I call it, "The MaidenSavers), #IPFS, #DAT. Maybe I could even host a small #Tor onion site or #I2P eepsite.
That's likely to be something I do _after_ I put my servers back in the rack and install some up-to-date OS on them. (I need to do that for job.next() purposes. The p2pnet stuff is just because I'm curious about it.)
If someone were to set up a #RasPi to be a node on one of these types of #peer-to-peer networks, would they need to set up NAT passthrough, or do their protocols already include something like STUN / TURN?
Mostly an academic question, as I’m not willing to potentially open up access to my home network.