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What an oxymoron ? Regulation and Internet. If you regulate it, everyone will leave your regulated network for another parallel open network IPFS anyone.

milquetoastaf 8y ago
Yep people are fleeing regulated sites like Facebook and Reddit like crazy for checks notes IPFS
cr0sh 8y ago
> everyone will leave your regulated network for another parallel open network IPFS anyone Maybe that'd be a good thing? What I wish could happen here in the US is wider private mesh network adoption. Right now, it exists at a certain level in some cities, but it is something that is relatively unknown, and ultimately it has to connect to the wider internet via commercial carriers, which ultimately limits it. If it could be completely distributed, with all nodes privately owned - think something like CB radio used to be (of course, there were problems with that from some operators - sigh) - anyone could stick up an antenna and easily become a node on the mesh. ...but in the US, you run into a very big problem: Hopping the "gaps". In certain areas of the United States (primarily the southwest region, but others exist too) making the hop from one city to the next via independent distributed mesh means is virtually impossible. Either distance or geographic constraints (mountains) hinder the coverage. The best solution I could think of, that wouldn't require one or multiple wealth benefactors (who would then be in de-facto control of that portion - not what is wanted, I'd imagine), would be mesh nodes in all vehicles, so that you'd have travelling nodes on the highways and elsewhere. I know it's all a pipe dream; I'm just tired of being so restricted in what I can or cannot do with my "pipe" unless I spend a buttload of money on a "business class" pipe (which my provider may not even allow to my home; plus I bet it would also have certain restrictions as well).

milquetoastaf 8y ago

Yep people are fleeing regulated sites like Facebook and Reddit like crazy for checks notes IPFS

cr0sh 8y ago

> everyone will leave your regulated network for another parallel open network IPFS anyone Maybe that'd be a good thing? What I wish could happen here in the US is wider private mesh network adoption. Right now, it exists at a certain level in some cities, but it is something that is relatively unknown, and ultimately it has to connect to the wider internet via commercial carriers, which ultimately limits it. If it could be completely distributed, with all nodes privately owned - think something like CB radio used to be (of course, there were problems with that from some operators - sigh) - anyone could stick up an antenna and easily become a node on the mesh. ...but in the US, you run into a very big problem: Hopping the "gaps". In certain areas of the United States (primarily the southwest region, but others exist too) making the hop from one city to the next via independent distributed mesh means is virtually impossible. Either distance or geographic constraints (mountains) hinder the coverage. The best solution I could think of, that wouldn't require one or multiple wealth benefactors (who would then be in de-facto control of that portion - not what is wanted, I'd imagine), would be mesh nodes in all vehicles, so that you'd have travelling nodes on the highways and elsewhere. I know it's all a pipe dream; I'm just tired of being so restricted in what I can or cannot do with my "pipe" unless I spend a buttload of money on a "business class" pipe (which my provider may not even allow to my home; plus I bet it would also have certain restrictions as well).