Stop
withdraw
I will leave the internet and seek alternatives.
Gopher and I2P as well
Burn the grass
There’s a million porn sites hosted in third world countries that don’t give a fuck about any of this
Happy cake day, Jimmycakes! 🍰
Create a local mesh for the community.
Stop using the Internet. Seriously.
I already only used open source products for decades now, and the Internet is just a network, you can use different networks, different protocols if you want, even embedded on current Internet protocols, or maybe use even something that completely sidesteps the Internet
Either way, the Internet has mostly been a failure
stop using internet and we can go back spending more time in farms, book, etc. what a peaceful day ✨
what different networks or protocols does exist?
Thanks!
All of my services are in a WireGuard VPN. The Internet only transports my VPN traffic. My cloud services run in a locked box, in my house and the only thing coming out of that box is VPN traffic.
To my devices, they just think that they’re on a LAN.
I do use this site, but I limit/lie about personal details and use a VPN. I assume I’m identifiable and act accordingly.
Any tips on how I can ascend to this level of existence?
The homelab and Linux communities are a good place to start. There’s a lot of very well made free and open source software (FOSS) that can, with some effort (mostly learning), replace most of the cloud services you use.
For example: I use Jellyfin (movies, TV Shows) and Audiobookshelf (books/Audiobooks) to replace all of the streaming services. HomeAssistant for home automation, power management, etc. Zoneminder(experimenting with Frigate) for security.
It’s all free, for homeassistant and zoneminder you’ll have to check for compatible hardware and everything requires you to set up the server/networking side of things. But if you’re willing to put in the time to learn, it’s a fun hobby that pays for itself (assuming you’re paying for streaming, home automation, cloud storage, etc).
Nostr is one of them, but I’d learn how to set that up first before using Primal.
Also, Nostr means Notes and Stuff on Relays, and is Free Software. This is the wild west of the internet, from what I was notified by my producer, Neigsendoig.
Tor for one, it rides on top of the internet.
Meshtastic, Briar.
I dont mind if its implemented like it has been in germany for a while with eID. With an open source desktop or mobile app that uses NFC to talk to your ID and can be used to verify your age online to a 3rd party without leaking your birthday or any other personal info to them.
I dont know why there is so much screaming about age verification going on when these cryptographically provable anonymous systems already exist. Remember that “stop killing games” EU campaign with a million signatures? That also used exactly this system.
I would prefer not having any verification, but as that is not gonna happen at this point, i think its more important to focus on HOW to implement it. I dont understand why these companies like discord arent being forced to use these existing verification systems. Those arent legally provable at all so why arent they being sued for this?
It’s very unlikely that most states will use a truly open source solution, especially when big tech makes it so easy not to. Case in point: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19
Very nice thread, thanks.
If they don’t they will make it very attractive for people to just ignore those age checked sites and build their own protocols that do work
Wait for the internet to fracture. There could end up being multiple internets… you could argue it is already that way to some degree.
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P2P more?
Yes, for example using Croc
whats still p2p today? seems like mostly everything was updated to run through corporate servers. i mean heck chats no longer has the capabilities they used to when things were p2p; now, a chat has like one single feature, to chat, and half the time that doesn’t even work because their servers are down lol.
What do you mean by chat? Because IRC has never been p2p. What existed as p2p 20 years ago and doesn’t today? I think they are all still here. It’s users that turned elsewhere but the p2p networks are still alive and well.
whats still p2p today? seems like mostly everything …
Sure 99.99% of traffic might still go through Netflix and Spotify and YouTube… but even .01% of traffic going through The Pirate Bay or CloudTorrents or Anna’s Archive (which does provide torrents) it’s still billions of files shared by millions of people, directly, from their computers to yours.
FWIW to get a very rough approximation, according to https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-is-no-longer-the-king-of-upstream-internet-traffic-240315/ BitTorrent is about ~5% of worldwide traffic.
My own perspective is that… not only streaming works well but there is also a huge economical incentive. YouTube started by facilitating the sharing of video content, including pirate one, BUT also made a way to earn money through ads. TikTok did the same with an ever bigger promise of fame. So I think the mechanism changed, namely it’s not anymore about sharing content “just” to share but it’s also with the hope of making an income from it. It’s probably important to disentangle all that before comparing too much the trends.
PS: my own P2P (optional for transfer and with registrations closed, so mostly for me to broadcast my own content) video server https://video.benetou.fr/ relying on PeerTube to give also an example without any pirated content.
Tor (with bridges enabled) intensifies
get a fake ID
and make sure it’s a foreign fake so that the system is unable to detect the security features that fakes usually don’t have
Continue to not give it, what do you mean?
Torrent more
Someone said I2P or TOR can be ran through port 80 but I doubt that.
I would like to think I would just stop using the Internet, or at least adopt a protocol like Gemini. How that would work exactly is hard to say, since the Internet is almost mandatory these days. Still, you have to be willing to inconvenience yourself to maintain at least some control on privacy and security online.
I have the feeling that limiting yourself to Gemini would guarantee you basically only ever communicate with the weirdest of the weird.
Sounds like my kind of people.
You opened me up to a whole new world with Gemini. I think we need to spread the word about this more. Thanks so much. <3
