Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition

biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There needs to be some sort of unblockable self-hosted broadcast system where users can spin up their own cloud hosted instance by entering a username and password and choosing one of hundreds of providers for a small fee, or self hosted instance as quickly and easily as installing a single app on an android phone. These with act just like websites, but with a common protocol and API so they can communicate with each other and with clients with no specific add-on. Then, Turkey or whoever could block Turkish ISPs from fulfilling that request, but anyone else could still access the instance in their client as long as their own instance doesn’t block it.

  Hostable on a phone, a windows PC, Linux PC, self-hosted VM, cloud rented VM, whatever. And easily portable from one place to another.

  Sure, uptime and reliability would suffer, EG when PC is turned off, but that’s acceptable to gain resilience against ISP, central services like google and Facebook and twitter, and government interference.

  I have designed a system to do this, using very reliable existing protocols and programming frameworks, I just don’t have the time or money to invest to make it happen.

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  • helopigs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hah, I designed one as well!

    I think the flow of information has to be fundamentally different.

    In mine, people only receive data directly from people they know and trust in real life. This makes scaling easy, and makes it impossible for centralized entities to broadcast propaganda to everyone at once.

    I described it at freetheinter.net if you’re interested

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    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t that basically what signal does?

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      • helopigs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Essentially, yes. Great point! I think it needs more features to function more like a social network (transitive topic-based sharing, for one)

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  • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it called the fediverse?

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  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have discovered the Gemini protocol yesterday.

    Hosting what they call a capsule would be easy and extremely lightweight and I could surf from an index using an app called Lagrange, available on F-Droid.

    Can you explain how your system differs?

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  • Patch@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’ve pretty much just described ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

    Anyone can spin up their own instance. You can self host on a machine in your house, or with any cloud provider. You can broadcast messages in Twitter-style or Reddit-style format. Anyone can navigate to your web address and see your messages. Anyone who federates with you can see it on their website. FOSS Android apps are available.

    You can’t force anyone to actually read your messages of course, but that’s a different matter.

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• LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What content broke the laws? Can you give more info? BlueSky has been pretty good so far so this surprises me

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  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I left a precedent in another top-level comment (a screenshot). Also, broke the laws is not my standard in these cases.

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