I don't recall the year but it was a long while ago, the developer and CJD from cjdns were chatting about ygg, very similar projects just different projects.

The point was to put routing and privacy at the foundation of "the internet"

It was mostly a response to the knowledge of prolific government and corporate spying. There are public nodes to piggyback on the legacy internet but it's another project that let's users build and control their own infrastructure, e.g. mesh-local

Also see CJDNS, darknet project and hyperboria

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yjftsjthsd-h 3 days ago | parent [-]

Actually, could anyone compare this to cjdns? On the surface they seem pretty similar. Docs say:

> Yggdrasil was created in order to build a decentralised routing scheme for mesh networks that can potentially operate at a global scale, motivated in particular by significant performance and scaling issues that were present in cjdns at the time.

( https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/faq.html )

but that was a while back; where do they stand today?

	▲	pwndByDeath 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I always thought of them as the same.basic idea, but CJD went on to make a network crypto thing that I never really understood. Ygg and cjdns are the same from a cosmetic point of view just different developers. IMO ygg is easy to install, cjdns was adding some new dev things that complicated the non developer experience, but that was a few years ago