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Makes me wonder if the future of the internet is federated network hardware. There's already efforts in bigger cities to distribute mesh networks (especially to lower-income areas), so it doesn't seem like a far leap to create an internet by users and for users.
NYC Mesh!
https://www.nycmesh.net/
There's likely others, but this one has been around for about a decade and is still operational.
This is cool to see, are there any examples in the Los Angeles City/County areas? Not sure how common place backups like this are, but it’s a smart idea.
At the very least, that was its past. It was built as a nuke-resilient self-healing early mesh concept.
Then it got commercialized and peers couldn't trust each other so much, so we have the drunken-starfish setup we have now.
I know it sucks, but drunken starfish got me lol
Is there anything that prevents a tech bro buying the hardware and accessing the network to post with their LLM the way they do with the internet today?