Actually, thinking about it more, I might as well repost this publicly...
Is it just me, or does that Veilid project smell a bit weird?
Like, the involvement of someone from hackers.town, the "source drop" release strategy without initial development in the open, the seemingly intense marketing, the apparent lack of a coherent document explaining the architecture/design, while at the same time heavily focusing on the technical side with not a word on the topic of abuse management...
Any of these individually wouldn't necessarily be an issue, but altogether it smells a bit... sus to me
Basically, The Vibes Are Off
@joepie91 my vibes radar is of a similar opinion. There's a lot of big talk, but I don't yet trust it in any capacity. I plan on diving in to the implementation details to give it a proper look over, informally auditing it. Based on my superficial review thus far, there's a few big design-level red flags, but this could just be me not fully understanding it yet. I *hope* it's good because in principle it sounds useful.
@joepie91 I heard someone speculate that it was private during initial development to prevent it from being "hijacked" by cryptocurrency grifters, at the design level - which is vaguely plausible
@joepie91 yeah... I personally offered to be part of the early design process, and they told me to wait for the public release. and now we're here, in the future!
