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Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet. (www.stopkillingtheinternet.com)
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[–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Once you make the connection though, you can download at a pretty decent clip if all the nodes in the middle can support that bandwidth transfer.

Of course, while you're doing it, you're maxing out the connections in between, too. It has problems with scale and bandwidth segmentation. Once you take it off the mainstream internet, you'd be lucky to keep a large neighborhood mesh working :(

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I think it depends on how those nodes were communicating. If they were communicating via low bandwidth LORA, then yes, I could absolutely see that. But they could also be communicating over point-to-point laser links, in which case you could still maintain a very large connection pipe.

    I do see your point, though, in that in order to have a more decentralized infrastructure, we are going to have to accept lower bandwidth than what we are currently used to on the centralized internet.

    Considering I already route most of my internet connection over Tor for most day-to-day things anyway, this is something that I am already accepting and getting used to. So the transition won't be as hard for me as it would be for some others.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I feel ya, I leave I2P running just to support the cause.

    If you want a fun side project, you could pipe reticulum over I2P, there are at least a handful of nodes out there.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    That does sound fun. I currently have Columba (android lxmf/nomadnet browser) set to go tcp to mishmesh, but i have a tor/i2p client called Invizible installed that I use to route most of my internet traffic over Tor on a normal basis as is and I could just turn on I2P and see if I could get Colomba to route over it.

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