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ziq wrote

I'm so excited by meshnets. It would essentially make ISPs obsolete if done right but no one seems interested in doing it.

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ziq wrote

I was really into meshnets when I had to rely on Wardriving (well warwalking) and diy signal boosting antennas to get online. I spent years struggling to find a working connection everyday, climbing to the highest hill and pointing my antenna at the village in the distance hoping I'd hit an open wifi with 1 bar.

People don't realize how fragile an internet connection is because they're used to never being without it. If the infrastructure started to fail as capitalism continues to collapse, meshnets would become big I bet. I'm surprised they're not already big in countries when the state shuts down connectivity whenever there's political strife.

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