This is lovely. I've always considered myself an internet person, I own a few domain names, I have a few servers, actual, physical pieces of hardware, connected

This is lovely. I've always considered myself an internet person, I own a few domain names, I have a few servers, actual, physical pieces of hardware, connected to the Internet through my private internet connection. Sure, it took a bit of effort to get it up the first time, to figure out how to configure routers, to configured postfix and setup mail accounts, figuring out how to do DKIM in and DNS, but, now the bar for entry is extremely low.. If I write a PHP adventure in an hour, it won't take more than 5 minutes to put it online for the world to see, and those who know me, know my domain/brand, and I can easily link it to them. If alice wants to talk to bob, she can just send those IP packets to his computer! If alice and bob are good friends, they probably exchanged certificates at some point. In retrospect, I used to be rather arrogant about this, not proud, just annoyed why everyone didn't just do that. But I've realized that I probably didn't find any of it easy, I just happened to find it fun and interesting. It'd have been torture if it was not fun for me to do. So yeah, we should maybe think hard about how to get to that point, where everyone who are online can have that amount of freedom, without having to rely on third parties, and without dedicating days to learning _that_much_ technical stuff. We don't need a new service trying to do this for us on the old Internet, we need some fundamental change, maybe it is not even to the network itself, maybe it is to the way we use or think about it.. Maybe it is just concepts we are missing? Maybe it is tools. Maybe it is really a fundamental change to the network itself. All must be free and equal on the capital I-Internet.