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celebratedrecluse wrote

I think we should make our own servers, rather than rent. Various powerful forces unfriendly to us are able to shut off our internet connections, making services for hire the last people we should trust at this point unfortunately

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kore wrote (edited )

thats obviously ideal, but if you still need to be connected to the global internet, you just run into problems with ISP. also i dont think a lot of ISPs (at least in US) give static IPs to non-business accounts. what do you mean specifically by server?

worth noting that places like riseup and A/I offer many services besides email

meshnets are certainly possible but problems like long-range (inter-city) connectivity havent really been solved in a decentralized way afaik. theres always sneaker network i guess

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celebratedrecluse wrote

Inter city and rural communication will be the most difficult problems for us to solve. It is probable that we will have to set up a system like Briar has, where its half on the public internet but has mesh as a backup

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a_perfect_map wrote

Dencentralize. The future is a mesh. The client/server model will never withstand attack from a real adversary, and is a hierarchy in which censorship can easily happen.

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