I believe this is superseded by the Willow protocol [0] which was posted here a while back.
I tried to read about Willow, but could never make heads or tails of it [1]. It seems to be a hierarchical key value store with a bunch of extra fields for timestamps and cryptographic tokens, but it's woefully short on working examples. Even the recent Rust library [2] is effectively a bunch of abstract classes with implementations that just throw errors.
I could make a quip about the state of European tech sophistication, but I'll let it pass with a polite smile.
I was going to say what the sibling said, no need for snark, NLnet funds a ton of cool projects. If I were to judge the quality of software written in silicon valley on the vc funded projects that don't pan out, god help me
> All of these above features are enabled by the new Willow General Purpose Sync Protocol we've been working on. It's a new protocol inspired by Earthstar, refining and building upon its concepts. We will be publishing a new website with complete specifications for this protocol.
> If Earthstar feels very similar to Willow, then that is no coincidence. Willow started out as a reimagining of Earthstar, future Earthstar versions will build upon Willow, and the core maintainer of Earthstar is one of the two Willow authors.
[1] https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html
[2] https://nlnet.nl/funding.html