I really can't help but look at this whole blocklist drama with some amusement tinged with exasperation.
Anyone who has done remotely any reading on #P2P systems and #federated systems just has that flaw jump to their eyes when the state of #ActivityPub implementations is seen, and in general how no importance is given to #AsynchronousCommunication communication in the spec and nearly as little to P2P use.
Basically, what did you expect? Of course it'll devolve into petty fiefdoms.
@smallcircles As far as the #Fediverse goes, I think that proper #P2P is unlikely to get implemented by many, but #NomadicIdentity can be and indeed has already been before.
Popularizing it is another matter, and the issues inherent on hosting & communicating with anything that is primarily reliant on the #clearnet and doesn't have explicit expectations of transport diversity don't make things easier either.
@thisismissem@smallcircles That's fair. Personally I'm more concerned with the participation hurdles the #clearnet involves, given how hard it is to register an #email account without doxing oneself these days.
(Nevermind hosting one's own instance, which involves even more PII.)
Hurdles which, unfortunately, nomadic identity is woefully insufficient to address (it addresses sudden instance death & mitigates the fiefdoms a bit, but that's about it).
"The 'net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" was a comment about #Usenet, a #federated / #P2P system with gossiped (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol) message exchange which wasn't particularly picky about its transport layer (indeed you could load a spool on a floppy and mail it), not the internet.
CF is amassing a lot of power. With 30% of all Internet Traffic going through CF and them decrypting all HTTPS traffic at the Edge...and able to change any or all of it transparently. This extract from CF's blog reads like a Government/Thread Actor's dream come true....
It also completely defeats the point of a CDN/caching-proxy like Cloudflare.
There are a few issues at play here, but mostly the redundancy limiting ability for DDoS could be handled by #p2p content-addressed mirrors, the problem is that on the #clearnet that has major #privacy issues.
So instead of doing the smart thing and deprecating the clearnet for application-level traffic, people just went "fuck it" and took the shit (but easy/simple) option.
The problem with the EFF's reasoning here is that these very same ISPs and other sorts of people have ALWAYS been attacking and taking down and banning marginalized people's content for spurious reasons - time and time again. The real world is ALREADY shit for marginalized people - there's no slippery slope to fall down, we're ALREADY down the slippery slope.
I've had this beef with the fucking neoliberals in the EFF and ACLU for decades - they seem to think riding to the defense of right wing hate groups protects marginalized people ... but then crickets when sex workers are banned from the financial system. Or when trans people are harassed, swatted, and doxxed off the internet by organized gangs of bigoted thugs.
There's NEVER a right time to ride to the defense of Nazis. EVER!
@kkarhan@JessTheUnstill While I can agree with the sentiment & intent, the notion that it's even technically even feasible to identify the #ASN to do such a thing to me highlights that the #clearnet is fundamentally broken.
But then it's not like I haven't been repeating that for a while now.
Wow. The Tor Project is doing the whole "#web3#crypto funding" drive in 2023. 2023. As if that was a normal thing that did not totally taint your reputation.
@accretionist@tante You know, there's this, but then #I2P somehow manages to do better with a fraction of the funding, by simply giving up on the pretense the #clearnet was not doomed from the start as anything other than a transport layer due to its inherent design flaws.
I2P also has more than one implementation, significantly reducing bus factor.
"Getting rid of physical books because we now have databases is like getting rid of sunshine because of the existence of vitamin-D pills and cod liver oil." --love that.
a plea for keeping physical libraries available. (but it is key to remember that all living library collections include materials that come and also go)
@jeffcliff@brewsterkahle One of the issues with seeding #LibGen or #SciHub on the #clearnet is that in some countries like mine that is actively hazardous.
As of the last time I checked, there's no prison involved, but the monetary penalties are steep-enough to dissuade the non well-off and the #copyright & publisher cartels are petty enough to bother with lawsuits with a guaranteed inability to recover legal fees.
If you want to stop child porn, you have to pay us. No we won't do it for free. Yes we're the only way to do it, and no we won't open source it. Remember this is about money, not children.
@coolboymew@alex@graf@Moon And once more I'm vindicated in my statements that hosting anything #federated or #p2p on the #clearnet as non-corporations is unsafe and made intentionally so too.
(That specific incident feels like old news at this point, but anyway.)
I'm going to stop you right there. When I look around Fediverse, I see people chatting with friends, making new ones, connecting with old ones, people sharing their fun, their fears, their anger, their sadness. I see people asking for help, offering to help, wondering if they need help. I see a microcosm of humanity.
I don't need to wait for Fedi to succeed, because, in my view. It. Already. Has.
RANT: I hate the fact that my ISP can restrict access to certain sites
How can it possibly be, that an ISP, which I’m paying for gets to decid, which sites I’m allowed to have access to, and which not?...
I have received a copyright infringement alert, what should I answer? (i.imgur.com)
(Of course I’m going to stop, but my server has been blocked by Hetzner, would like to recover it XD)