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There were some rumblings about building out an "open source" alternative to the Internet about 10 years ago. The idea was to use various WiFi technologies to create a network that was encrypted and controlled by no one. It certainly is doable given enough people, but it seems like it just never materialized. Did I miss it? Surely there has been advancements in the last decade.

Where I live I have an elevation advantage. I could easily host a high-speed point-to-point link with line of sight to other peaks as far as 80 miles. I always wanted to get something like this rolling.

There were some rumblings about building out an "open source" alternative to the Internet about 10 years ago. The idea was to use various WiFi technologies to create a network that was encrypted and controlled by no one. It certainly is doable given enough people, but it seems like it just never materialized. Did I miss it? Surely there has been advancements in the last decade. Where I live I have an elevation advantage. I could easily host a high-speed point-to-point link with line of sight to other peaks as far as 80 miles. I always wanted to get something like this rolling.

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[–] • 2 pts

I remember.

I think the left went hard core on censoring things like Human Biodiversity and Deep State corruption around the 2014-2017 time frame. And to this day of course. I just mean when the shift was happening.

So I think a lot of the tech types lost interest in things that could be used for wrong think.

Some links:

https://old.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929294-500-meshnet-activists-rebuilding-the-internet-from-scratch/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking

It would be cool to do. You could share retarded memes with neighbors. Maybe you could run fiber optic cable along abandoned rail lines and communicate with people one town over.

Could be useful if the usual public infrastructure is damaged or shits the bed somehow (or if they get overloaded with too many diversity hires to keep it going).

[–] • 1 pt

I remember back then someone posting that a meshnet had to have a way to control child pornography. I tried to tell them that a networking protocol is not the appropriate place to try and enforce laws. Network admins aren't police and a router's only job is to route packets. It's not like a TSA screening machine where some person watches every packet go by to make sure it doesn't have a prohibited payload. It would be more efficient and effective for police to do actual police work to catch child pornographers rather than trying to figure out how to nigger rig networking equipment to catch it.

The point is that no sooner does something cool get proposed than a bunch of people come out of the woodwork to fuck it all up by adding requirements.

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The point of a meshnet is that it's like local very near by transmitters/receivers.

If someone posts child abuse on the world wide web that person could be anywhere.

If they do it on a meshnet then everyone would know it was someone local in the community.

Seems like that would be a great way for the offending party to get their house torched in their sleep or get arrested or have something else equally unpleasant occur to them.

Perhaps just like a notice that says "this network is run by your neighbors who can see everything you do on the network unless you specifically encrypt the traffic" and displays first thing after logging on would put everyone on their best behavior.

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The whole point of the thing was that all traffic is encrypted. There's almost zero possibility of it working if it isn't.