Stop using the Internet. Seriously.
I already only used open source products for decades now, and the Internet is just a network, you can use different networks, different protocols if you want, even embedded on current Internet protocols, or maybe use even something that completely sidesteps the Internet
Either way, the Internet has mostly been a failure
I dont mind if its implemented like it has been in germany for a while with eID. With an open source desktop or mobile app that uses NFC to talk to your ID and can be used to verify your age online to a 3rd party without leaking your birthday or any other personal info to them.
I dont know why there is so much screaming about age verification going on when these cryptographically provable anonymous systems already exist. Remember that “stop killing games” EU campaign with a million signatures? That also used exactly this system.
I would prefer not having any verification, but as that is not gonna happen at this point, i think its more important to focus on HOW to implement it. I dont understand why these companies like discord arent being forced to use these existing verification systems. Those arent legally provable at all so why arent they being sued for this?
It’s very unlikely that most states will use a truly open source solution, especially when big tech makes it so easy not to. Case in point: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19
Very nice thread, thanks.
If they don’t they will make it very attractive for people to just ignore those age checked sites and build their own protocols that do work
stop using internet and we can go back spending more time in farms, book, etc. what a peaceful day ✨
Stop using any sites that require ID.
the internet won’t ask shit, specific websites will, which can and should be avoided
Hope that this will completely kill the corporate Internet and switch to exclusively using FOSS federated or decentralized services for everything.
I’ll continue to not ask for ID and run my own services open to anyone and everyone.
That’s a cool project.
wow this is a really cool project
Cool project! :D
We should really start concentrating more on decentralization.
Take Freifunk as example and similar projects.
What we need is a user-run private alternative to the internet. Wireless mesh networks are a very interesting step in that direction.
As long the infrastructure is owned by the government and companies, we will never be really free.
Continue to not give it, what do you mean?
I’ll start by disabling Javascript and see how far that gets me
I’ve gone long years without using any social media associated to my identity, as many others do, and i’ll eat my cooked shirt if I start thinking, “hey sure why not let me into this shitty internet”.
I’ll be fine without using the internet if it comes down to it, at that point it’d be a liability. Dinosaurs think they can control the internet which is a hilarious proposition in the first place.
I guess I’ll start pirating things like local news, weather forecasts, and garbage pickup schedules.
In the meantime, I’ll continue to self-host what I can, de-couple from online services, and find alternatives to get information from.
Honestly, back off. The more tech literate I get, the less tech I want in my life.
P2P more?
Yes, for example using Croc
whats still p2p today? seems like mostly everything was updated to run through corporate servers. i mean heck chats no longer has the capabilities they used to when things were p2p; now, a chat has like one single feature, to chat, and half the time that doesn’t even work because their servers are down lol.
whats still p2p today? seems like mostly everything …
Sure 99.99% of traffic might still go through Netflix and Spotify and YouTube… but even .01% of traffic going through The Pirate Bay or CloudTorrents or Anna’s Archive (which does provide torrents) it’s still billions of files shared by millions of people, directly, from their computers to yours.
FWIW to get a very rough approximation, according to https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-is-no-longer-the-king-of-upstream-internet-traffic-240315/ BitTorrent is about ~5% of worldwide traffic.
My own perspective is that… not only streaming works well but there is also a huge economical incentive. YouTube started by facilitating the sharing of video content, including pirate one, BUT also made a way to earn money through ads. TikTok did the same with an ever bigger promise of fame. So I think the mechanism changed, namely it’s not anymore about sharing content “just” to share but it’s also with the hope of making an income from it. It’s probably important to disentangle all that before comparing too much the trends.
PS: my own P2P (optional for transfer and with registrations closed, so mostly for me to broadcast my own content) video server https://video.benetou.fr/ relying on PeerTube to give also an example without any pirated content.
What do you mean by chat? Because IRC has never been p2p. What existed as p2p 20 years ago and doesn’t today? I think they are all still here. It’s users that turned elsewhere but the p2p networks are still alive and well.
If you need your id to access internet: not use it anymore, selfhosting go brrr
If you need your id for all content-sharing websites like social media or microblogging: return back to good ol webrings and static websites. Can’t kill the web on its core principles. No algorithms, pure passion and creativity.
I lived great before the Internet, I’ll live just as great after it’s gone.
