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I'm glad I got to see the era where the internet was useful and exciting. I feel like every major change since about 2010 has pushed it more toward blandness a
by laughing_man 6mo ago
I'm glad I got to see the era where the internet was useful and exciting. I feel like every major change since about 2010 has pushed it more toward blandness and made it less useful.
This will be a big one. They're building the groundwork for a world-wide dystopia.
- iamnothere 6mo agoCome join us on what I will call the “scatternet”, the globally distributed, offline-first, async network full of all the things that made the old Internet great. Save a few ISOs of still-free OSes and hoard a few extra cheap computers. (You might also want to get a 10Mhz capable radio.)
- rolph 6mo agoBBS was born, BBS has risen, BBS will come again.
- nhecker 6mo agoWhy the 10 MHz radio?
- iamnothere 6mo agoFor sporadic medium-long distance communication over packet radio. 10MHz isn’t too crowded and can be easily used for regional communications (and occasionally long distance) via atmospheric bounce. It also works well at low power and the antenna is shorter than other long distance modes like the longer wave HF bands (20m+).
- brightball 6mo agoRunning a network of old school BBS's over radio would be great
- rickydroll 6mo agoAre you thinking of 100mhz (3m)? Sending data by radio is messy, slow, and generally disappointing. Start your journey by reading up on the Aloha system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet.
- iamnothere 6mo agoMy apologies, I meant 10m (28 MHz). Brain fart. It’s slow but it’s more than adequate for text, and range is excellent (hundreds of miles).
- scrollop 6mo agoPerhaps we could leave the crappy public internet and build better things behind Tor/darkweb.
- sph 6mo agoPerhaps we could leave the crappy internet and build better things in meatspace.
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- edg5000 6mo agoI always felt this moment would come eventually. The trend is centralisation of power and control. It's depressing. It's been a long time coming at a slow but consistent cadence.