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I've been revisiting this page hoping someone will answer your question, and I worry that it's significant that nobody has.

Me too. When I think Web 3 as being distributed this is the kind of thing I imagine. Not crypto. :(

To handwave tremendously, it's another private internet implementation a la Tor or Freenet. They have a useful Applications [0] page.

[0]: https://www.gnunet.org/en/applications.html

From the FAQ [0]:

> For users, GNUnet offers anonymous and non-anonymous file-sharing, a fully decentralized and censorship-resistant replacement for DNS and a mechanism for IPv4-IPv6 protocol translation and tunneling (NAT-PT with DNS-ALG).

[0]: https://www.gnunet.org/en/faq.html

README.1ST of 0.16 tarball:

> WARNING!

> =======

>

> The following is a list of issues with GNUnet 0.11.0 that will need

:|

> 0.11.0

:(

probably a remnant... but who knows?