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[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they have a host and a processor that does not bow to fascists the Internet is pretty robust. Now people may need to connect to you IP, if all the DNS providers pull your name, but they can;t stop you from reaching it. Not really a good way to be found, though, but we can bring back webrings and directories.

The prevalence of fuckery on the corpo-fascist web does lead me to believe that we should be migrating to a parallel system, though. We've had the dark web for ages, though it scares people to go back to a time when the crime was done by people not corporations and governments, and there are distributed P2P hosting systems out there that just need people to use them to be viable.

[–] Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tell me how to accomplish this? Never setup my own web server before.

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Look up the TOR project tutorials, they have quite a bit on setting up a .onion site, which is the easiest way to go as it will load pretty simply once you're on the network.

There are other things like the LoRa systems with their own hosting projects to maintain sites on a distributed network, Freenet has stuff that is coming along nicely as well, though it seems they're still in beta but are functional already.

The fact that we all traded privacy for "safety" ended up as it always does. You lose the rightrs, and don't get the benefits. We have Facebook hosting scams in their official ads because they get a cut of the profits and that's somehow better than the scams you used to get back in the 80s and 90s. I trust a bunch of Russian hackers and pirates running Telegram bot networks a fuck of a lot more than I do corporations or governments.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd probably be fine with browsing a simpler alt-net if it gained just a bit more normality. The thing that scares me about surfing around TOR is the malware and one wrong click leading to gore/csam/other scarring stuff I can't do anything about.

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, you can run into some vile content, but we had Kiwi Farms up and running on the clear web and teh various chans have had plenty of terrible things on them. Heck, before I purged Meta I'd "reported" hardcore porn ads on Facebook to them they just load because someone paid them to and nobody bothered to check the content before delivery. Granted, the type was pretty normal so not really scarring, but seeing it pop up on what is supposed to be a SFW feed, especially when I had to go directly to the page of actual friends to see stuff that was just posted but they buried, because you're letting a corporation filter and prioritize what you see...

You do have to take precautions, but I download cracked games from a Russian bot network and have had no issues, I just check the content manually and make damn sure anything I run (or even open) is sandboxed.

We might end up with a resurgence of scams like McAfee if that became normal, but I think it would be worth it, plus people learning to watch out for themselves again would probably raise the quality of the Internet that has been steadily falling since the Eternal September began.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago

This is why we need to build resilient alternatives for everything that can still interoperate with existing technology. It doesn't matter if it's a flood, a storm or an orange dictator, the internet shouldn't just be turned off. Also not for any single individuals.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Absolutely insidious. What a disgusting display to twist a law to create a precedent to attack any organization in the future that they see fit to. Of course, they are going to abuse this new power if they don't get pushback.

This administration is truly criminal in nature.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

we should say it openly: this administration is a terror organization

not as effective at that as some others, but they are doing what they can.

[–] bowsertattoo@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

can i still access it with a vpn?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

Yes, but then Trump has to go down to the office and get his signature notarized to boot you off that.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish he would. I paid a lot to get my ass wiped from the Internet and isn't even 100%.

[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How does that work? Do they send someone over whenever you use the bathroom?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

And then they smear it all over the Internet presumably.

[–] BabyVi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really gotta get serious about trying out Reticulium.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I have a v3 LoRa node that I have flahsed reticulum on, but I wasn't sure what to do after that. I need to learn more.

Actually what I need to do is figure out which projects I should prioritize but that seems to be harder (for me) than setting up reticulum.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago