You’d need to decentralize the Internet itself. Good luck with that one…
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Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 weeks agodecentralized apps, fediverse
Those apps and / or the fediverse itself would get sued into the ground and shut down one app or server at a time. There’s nothing stopping any Governments authorities from going after servers inside their borders and there’s nothing stopping them from “harmonizing” identity verification restrictions among other countries. They’ve already done it once with Intellectual Property law.
This push to de-anonymize the Internet isn’t new either. Microsoft started this back in the oughts with their Passport / Digital-ID program. Google and Meta, along with others, long ago launched their own versions and why you can sign into so many websites with a Google or Facebook account.
It’s generally referred to as IdP and now that the Internet has been fully corporatized, with minor holdouts, you can bet your bippy that the days of anonymous access are ending.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
krashmo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What do you mean by that? Most of the infrastructure that makes up the internet is owned by like 6 companies.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I2p exists
krashmo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So do a million different forms of encryption. That doesn’t make the infrastructure any less centralized. If the people who own the fiber decide to only allow pre-approved types of traffic to cross their networks then it doesn’t make any difference what sort of protocols exist. Building free cross-country or subsea fiber routes is not economically viable and the internet doesn’t exist without them.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
infrastructure that makes up the internet is owned by like 6 companies.
GAFAM holds a large chunk of social media HTTP/S traffic, plus cloud crap. That’s all application layer.
Do they own main trunk IP routers too?krashmo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They do wade into the IP / transport territory a bit but those are not the 6 companies I was referring to. I was thinking of Verizon / AT&T / Lumen / Zayo / etc.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Last time I checked, the p!rate bay still exists. In fact there are many of them. Because the website itself is open source. The same could be done with any other site. If one gets taken down, two more pop up in it’s place.
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
While true, most sites do not have the fame of the pirate bay and will not see anywhere near the same number of fans hosting remakes, even if the source is available.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If only there was a non-commercial, decentralized way of doing the same thing we are already doing. Perhaps make it free too. Hmmm