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Open discovery is a hard problem.
If that seems pseudo-science speak to seem smart, I mean that you need some prior trust. Just like with PGP. Some axioms. In year 2002 those axioms were people you meet IRL and links you saw printed. Now these have been erased as a Web discovery mechanism, so to not compete with search engines and platforms. Links are login-walled and short-living most of the time. People are discouraged from making their own pages and sharing links.
My Kademlia experiment is more working than not, slowly moving to split core and UI there, to have replaceable cores. Want to try F2F. Especially since it even looks more like something that would work F2F way better. I've learned that I'm not as smart as I think while making it. Still don't have anything resembling indirect reputation, but eventually I want to make that, for some kind of "public" media, where you need to filter the sewer stream.
(No, I won't share, it's a P2P program written in TCL/Tk, entirely, not just UI, except for some bindings in C that weren't done by someone else. It seemed easier to start with, with asynchronous style being very easy there, but I've recently tried writing some other thing in Python and realized just how easier and faster Python is due to everything not being a string, however boring that critique of TCL would seem.)