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Out of curiosity, what do you mean by that? I'm not sure I'm following your metaphor. If anything, the opposite would seem to be more likely.
by Bluestrike2 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by that? I'm not sure I'm following your metaphor. If anything, the opposite would seem to be more likely.
- bashinator 11y agoThe federation I imagine would have a transport mechanism like Ye Olde Usenet, but a sophisticated application layer like reddit's. If ISPs had local reddit/imgur/Facebook caches from which anyone could run a leaf node, that would be a big selling point, and work towards democratization of the Internet. Open-source the application layer. Use and contribute to standards-based protocols. That's what I mean by Federation. I don't really care if you get there by having tax-funded regional networks, or tons of private ISPs from big multinationals to mom-n-pop shops serving individual communities. We currently live in a Republic where the masses have some degree of representation through government committees and administrations, but really it's a handful of big-money private interests with the most in the game.