(@puttitout
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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Xantha ago
This is interesting, but I believe that this just highlights the real problem even further: The system itself is so irrepairably broken and corrupt that this kind of solution becomes necessary.
I'm an engineer (industrial) IRL and at my job we meme 'simplicity means success' (especially when shit goes wrong lol) because of how many projects have failed because they were technically feasible, but just required too much rigamarole/complexity/input to make them work in the long run. Too many rube goldberg machine projects.
The system needs to be burnt to the ground and started from scratch. These meshnet systems will turn into infinite wack-a-mole with authorities until we're dead or they're dead.
TheSecretShakespeare ago
Yes, Occams's Razor...
"Nature does not employ two things where one is sufficient."
But one must create constant 'complexity' to deceive, so as not to be seen as an obvious deceiver.
"They muddy the waters to make it seem deep."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ken_bingo2 ago
I have no idea what the fuck he is talking about. I do know that what you are saying is true. I also you don't know the likely/realistic/possible path from here to burned to the ground. So it is conceivable that this meshnet thing is part of that path.
ThePoliceTookMyGuns ago
Meshnets are essentially wireless routers connected to one another forming a network.
Xantha ago
I'm not saying don't do it or that it's not worthwhile in the long run. Just don't expect too much from it. Voat has had discussion about meshnets for years and nothing has ever materialized. IIRC the only (or one of them) working example of one is some random rural town in Spain and that's about it. I would expect government kikes to make it illegal everywhere if it actually gained traction anywhere.