I say the day Mozilla bends the knee to advertisers and do what Chrome did by phasing out ad-blockers with Firefox. That’ll be the day when I look around my apartment and realize “man, I need to start getting into some hobbies now.”

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    Realistically i dont think the internet is going anywhere. But in the future i may spend less time on it.

    However some freinds have been building a meshnet (not meshtastic) thats just a bunch of house nodes. Its been fun and theres already tangable benifits:

    1. No wierd pings from 3rd parties
    2. We host whatever we want
    3. We pay next to nothing
    4. No survalance
    5. Early internet vibes
    6. No copyright

    Its pretty much the old internet but with housevto house. Im loving it.

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      So ive wanted to try this. How do you get started on it? Just a friend centric small internet would be awesome. Maybe with an irc server too.

      Tailscale ?

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        I think he’s referring to an actual physical mesh network (likely wifi based) rather than something built on top of the internet itself.

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            Precisely why we need to protect the current Internet at all costs. I hate being isolated because everyone is always moving far away and has weird bizarre chaotic hours anymore. :(

            Would be quite a privilege being within reasonable range to friends who were all interested in a meshnet, the idea is fascinating.

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      A) How do I do this?

      B) How do I get into your friend group?

      All of my friends have decided they’re ok with the boiling pot and since I won’t meet them in the soup I’m not really involved anymore.