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It would be really cool if you'd sticky this on the front page!)
Lots of posts asking, "Where do we go now?".
Free speech on the darpanet is an oxymoron. It's like meeting your crack dealer at the local dtug store counter to do the deal. Ideally, we'd all go out into meatspace and interact with our communities like normal humans, but for many, mostly due to the dysevolutionary, crippling, and disconnecting effects of civilization/domestication, meatspace interaction just isn't an option.
I've posted this before, but no one was interested because they can't watch porn, or distract themselves with zog propaganda movies or games over a network like this, but recent events seem to be straightening out people's priorities, so I thought I'd give it one more try.
These are the steps necessary to create an antifragile, decentralized, autonomous, anonymous, encrypted, text only, public communications network:
Create your own local p2p meshnet using scrap routers and the modified open source routing software of your choice.
Create a social media like site, but text only, to conserve bandwidth and storage, and prevent abuse, that allows access to the meshnet.
Require a small Monero bond to open an account.
Use a community rating system like voat's to curate posts, but when a post gets a certain number of down votes, or is reported as spam/scam, send it to a pool of moderators that are randomly chosen from a list of members that are in good standing.
Incentivize participation in the moderator pools with a portion of the bonds that get forfeited when people are banned.
Track it all on a blockchain, with full disclosure of source code, financial transfers, and moderator actions, which the community can also vote on, potentially resulting in moderating of moderators, ad infinitum.
Use the remainder of the forfeited bonds to incentivize network growth, including long range repeaters, drone repeaters, vibration/wind/solar powered repeaters magnetically attached to unknowing route delivery vehicles, public transit, and utility poles, and physical sneakernet participants.
I'm not going to make it, because I hate being in front of screens and am going offline nearly full time soon, but I really hope someone else runs with the idea.
I'll recognize it when I see it, and might come back out to play.
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offender ago
The main problem is getting people to participate.
RiverWind ago
A distributed meshnet is a nice idea, with hopefully distributed appliactions running on it. A software distributed net platform alternative to Voat is Aether:
https://getaether.net
There is a thread on Aether here:
https://voat.co/v/whatever/4170305
Goats are already arriving and the fun has just begun!
toggafreggin ago
I think that if people saw an open wifi connection, connected, and got a splash page with easy instructions on how to join, it would take off pretty quick, for the people that matter at least. I know I'd put down $10 to get access to a decentralized network. The internet going down or getting worse will encourage curiosity about alternatives too.
A big part of the idea was to eventually link it with a crypto$, with demurrage, reputation based transaction limits, and other speculation abuse prevention measures, that people can only earn by putting goods or services into the network, and can only use within the network, so it would also provide an alternate currency, market, and means of "income".