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"We Need To Rewild The Internet" (twit.social)
submitted 6 months ago by JustinH@twit.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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"We Need To Rewild The Internet"
An absolutely excellent read (and great analogy) by @mariafarrell and @robin Probably the best piece I've read all year.

I often struggle to think of a term for "appearing messy from a distance is often, on a human scale, healthy actually." Comparing the social web to an ecosystem is exactly it.

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

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[โ€“] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that what Freenet or ToR do in a similar way? https://staging.freenetproject.org/pages/download.html https://www.torproject.org/

Though I guess with yours its smaller on the scale of individuals interacting.

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 points 6 months ago

Now this is interesting, I know about Tor ofc, with all problems surrounding it (exit nodes etc) but I guess an onion website could be made well protected and shared & updated. You have to host it yourself though I guess.

Freenet, gotta dig down and see how it works under the surface, it looks very promising but it's kind of complex and I haven't yet figured out if it is all benevolent sharing for example and what happend if some random node sharing your stuff goes offline.

Very interesting!

I think (I'll dig more to see if it stands) my advantage would be the redundancy (so the data always stays up and is hard to take down), the no need of benevolent nodes, and potentially the ease if use.

Thanks!