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Thigh High Socks (thighhighsock@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 11:23:56 JST 
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@ee11a5dff40c19a555f41fe42b48f00e618c91225622ae37b6c2bb67b76c4e49 @alex @gabriel
True, but running code written from someone who's clearly mentally unwell has risks. If he goes full schizo and decides that god wants him to backdoor his software or something. Bit of an unlikely scenario, but it should be a consideration when evaluating whether to trust software or not. -
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Thigh High Socks (thighhighsock@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 03:35:45 JST
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@PhenomX6 @opal @coldacid @Charlamagne
Mesh networking is a different thing than becoming an ISP, it's creating a seperate network, which may or may not be connected to the Internet.
I think that something like SNET but more scalable is the ultimate solution.
It's entirely possible in a densely populated city, as long as you can string cable between apartments/houses, and the OCCASIONAL WiFi hop is also totally okay (though it harms scalability).
This can be done with consumer-grade WiFi and Ethernet equipment.
If people could create a mesh network for their local cities/communities, then the many networks could be connected together, as they got bigger, the infrastructure (Ethernet cables and WiFi repeaters), could be improved to scale more (fiber optic cables on power lines).
This would essentially be a way to create your own Internet, which would be far more censorship resilient, as the way a mesh network works is not hierarchical.
This leaves two problems:
1. How do we convince people to utilize such a network?
2. When other networks are created, how will they be interconnected. (We might need to use the Internet to connect them).
To answer #1, it needs to provide benefit for the users *now*, not later, maybe market it as a LAN for everyone in the neighborhood who wants to join, starting with your friends.
#1 is the greatest issue, adoption has to happen in the early stages for it to grow.
#2 Actually isn't too bad, the answer is litteraly "use the Internet." If worst came to worse, the locations of the devices routing data between subnets could be kept a secret.
This would all pair extremely well with IPFS, the anonyminity concerns would be greatly diminished as the network isn't hierarchical, so figuring out where a local IPv6 address routes to is more difficult (especially with MAC address spoofing). IPFS could conserve bandwidth and preserve content.
To scale, you'd want seperate subnets that could be connected in a way where you could still communicate directly with others, but also with people local to your subnet (once again, we're talking about Ethernet cables and WiFi repeaters, gotta save bandwidth).
This is all just unhinged rambling, but I'm actually starting to think of it as a possiblity. -
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Thigh High Socks (thighhighsock@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 03:33:35 JST
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@PhenomX6 @opal @Charlamagne
> The issue with pissing people off is more he pissed people off in the free speech sphere who'd try to help him or keep the site up. When kf was up earlier this month poast users didn't like how the kiwis were fucking with them as an example (the nose, yelling at the users on the site, etc).
Look, I think Josh brought a lot of drama to poast. But that isn't why this is happening now. There aren't people in the "free speech sphere" willing to defend him at Voxility, nor at Zayo, nor at path.net. We're seeing an unprecedented utilisation of the Internet's core infrastructure for censorship.
You can start your own hosting company, you can even start your own ISP.
But both the ISP and hosting company need to piggyback from a Tier I ISP, hence why there aren't any "free speech" tier I hosting companies. Pissing off the free speech people had NOTHING to do with this. -
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Thigh High Socks (thighhighsock@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 03:33:32 JST
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@opal @PhenomX6 @Charlamagne
There's no "routing around them" without...
1. Changing all the network infrastructure worldwide.
2. Creating a mesh network.
The mesh network is extremely impractical, the biggest success of this type of thing was Cuba's SNET, and that only worked in a densely populated city, where people could be convinced to hookup with the network.
Honestly, I hate to say this, but we need legislation that forces low level infrastructure providers to be content neutral.
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Thigh High Socks (thighhighsock@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Oct-2022 03:33:30 JST
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@PhenomX6 @opal @Charlamagne
You're right, it looks shitty on all fronts.
However, It's **FAR** more practical than building a mesh network, or buying out a T1 ISP (hundreds of milions of dollars).
Overlay networks like Tor and i2p are a temporary solution, but eventually, if Tor provides a way for people to access websites that the mob is against, Tor will not be allowed to exist.
If Texas can make a bill against social media censorship, they can make a bill against ISP censorship, so it's not totally impossible.
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