Way, way too many websites. I have to research all of them just to use one? I have choice paralysis! The corporations are right, I shouldn’t be trusted to make decisions for myself, and the internet should be like cable.
Way, way too many websites. I have to research all of them just to use one? I have choice paralysis! The corporations are right, I shouldn’t be trusted to make decisions for myself, and the internet should be like cable.
What’s the alternative to the corporate web? Tor? Usenet?
If the full extent of this kind of internet existed, Tor would be completely irrelevant on it. Imagine that there essentially are no other sites than what’s approved by isps. It’s the cable model.
Not that such a wild vision of the internet has any chance of taking hold now days. The point of the thread was to make fun of the people who are complaining about lemmy providing too much choice.
They can’t stop people from hosting private servers or creating protocols for bypassing restrictions. And even if they did, things like SSH and remote desktop would be completely useless, but those are necessary for maintaining even the corporate web.
What about the snowflake proxies? Dont those go through microsoft?
Worst case, could have regional intranets. Like people just connect their routers with eachother. Sneakernet over large media between disconnected regions.
But that’s me getting way ahead of myself.
This looks like a lot of fun :)
We’ll need a critical mass of well distributed nerds to make this happen.
I’m having a hard time wording my comment, so forgive the clumsiness. I’m finding it very interesting that for this particular application, we may not have the nerds well distributed enough. Though, we should, since the distribution part is the point.