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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I miss the internet being a wild west.

It certainly had its downsides, but it felt a lot better than the nonsense that's been happening over the past decade+.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but once money got involved we had to start making regulations

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

You are literally a nazi /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I remember being on GeoCities or Lycos and just incrementing the site number to see different sites.

Star Trek, Star Wars, Lego, PORN!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So then we need build new network with idea that it would be controlled by corps and gov so we need return back to darknet type of network and meshes

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ummm what? You make no sense.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry eng is not my native I meant. "So, we need to build a new network with the understanding that governments and corporations will always try to control it. That means returning to darknet-style architectures and mesh networks."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's the same as fighting against "fake news" which just creates a false trust that everything on the internet is truth. Which is the opposite of what one should believe.