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36 sats \ 3 replies \ @brunenzio 20 Aug \ parent \ on: Is Betanet the future for Stacker News (and everything else)? tech
I'm not very well versed in this type of things, but I got the same feeling by reading the GitHub readme.
In any case, I am curious about the issue in itself. Would it really be possible to have a new decentralised version of the internet which does not rely on the already established infrastructure? That would be very cool.
This is in my to-read list since forever.
does not rely on the already established infrastructure
I assume you mean doesn't entirely rely on the already established infrastructure. There's a lot of baby in the bath water. The place to start is deciding what is bath water and what isn't.
If you're interest in this, I recommend Designing an Internet which recounts the history of internet design, the mistakes they made, and how the author (someone involved in making the internet) would redesign it if they could.
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Thanks for the reference, I'll try to push it on the top of my reading list ;-)
Concerning the baby and the bath water, I was actually referring to the physical infrastructure more than anything else. I would like to know if there's even just a remote possibility to have a different way to "do internet".
I remember some time ago there was a sort of thing that tried to make an internet with computer connected through a sort of mesh network, but I don't remember neither the name nor of it actually was tested in real life.
However, I fear the subject is more complex than I can digest with my background and time. Let's hope more prepared and efficient people get interested in this.
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Fixing/replacing the physical (atoms) is harder than the digital (bits), but it's possible. The dream is something like HAM radio level autonomy/sovereignty, but most of our high bandwidth wireless tech that operates over long distances requires line of sight.
So if physical wires/optics are the problem, we'll need to incentivize high density citizen run wireless mesh, or have a tech breakthrough that makes things like roll-your-own cell towers affordable to you and me.
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