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Do we have a chance? (szmer.info)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Negative thoughts flooded my mind. The EU is constantly trying to push Chat Control. They're blocking bootloaders on phones, introducing ID and face scanning everywhere, in the US they're trying to push system-level verification, corporations are spitting in our faces and don't even hide it. I know we have to fight. My personal rebellion was joining Fediverse and Lemmy and quitting Reddit. But seriously, boss—I'm tired. Are our attempts to preserve internet freedom futile? Can we win against corporations and politicians who we pay but don't listen to us?

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[–] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I think moving away to decentealised means of connecting is the way. We already have things like Reticulum. If we invent a powerful and robust decentralised way of physical connection (like LoRa or HaLow but better) then we won't need any corps - neither ISPs nor those that create web services for the ISP based network

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

    You are definitely right, but I will caution that people are going to have to get used to a lot slower connectivity speeds and higher latency than we've been used to.

    Max reticulum link is 40mbps, tor to onion services is like 5mbps, wifi halo is like 1-16mbps and MeshCore and Meshtastic are like ~20kbps max.

    Centralized internet has gotten us used to speeds of hundreds of megabits per second and latency of 10s of ms, and that's just not possible when decentralizing systems, at least not right now.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    at least not right now.

    I think this is the key point. Decentralised alternatives begin as slower and less ergonomic, but over time, when more people use them, they should catch up on the proprietary solutions. The massive transition from Windows to Linux that has been happening lately is a good example of that IMO. It's only us who can help these initiatives grow after all.

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