Comment on AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Makes me wonder if the future of the internet is federated network hardware. There’s already efforts in bigger cities to distribute mesh networks (especially to lower-income areas), so it doesn’t seem like a far leap to create an internet by users and for users.
future of the internet is federated network hardware
At the very least, that was its past. It was built as a nuke-resilient self-healing early mesh concept.
Then it got commercialized and peers couldn’t trust each other so much, so we have the drunken-starfish setup we have now.
I know it sucks, but drunken starfish got me lol
Is there anything that prevents a tech bro buying the hardware and accessing the network to post with their LLM the way they do with the internet today?
NoblityAbility@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are there any current examples of that?
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
NYC Mesh!
www.nycmesh.net
There’s likely others, but this one has been around for about a decade and is still operational.
RustyShackleford@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
This is cool to see, are there any examples in the Los Angeles City/County areas? Not sure how common place backups like this are, but it’s a smart idea.