Comment on A.B. 1043’s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone
ekky@sopuli.xyz 6 days agoThere already exist multiple, though they obviously don’t have the same content or capacity as the clearnet, much like Lemmy vs Reddit.
Like, there’s Meshtastic for WAN-like internet, and Yggrasil, Lokinet, I2P, etc. for multi-purpose internet.
I’d keep away from TOR though, since that’s the most low-hanging fruit for those who want to peddle services or share content of questionable ethics (and likely soon also for children who don’t want to deal with age verification, leave it to the politicians to blow the boiler by blocking the relief valves).
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Actually, what’s the problem of IP, which isn’t existent in those other protocols?
Seems a lot like the problem is called capitalism and the reason why it isn’t affecting those other protocols yet is because they are not commercialised yet.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
That observation is correct.
The problem is not the IP protocol, but rather the users (including corpos). The above were simply new “internets”, their abstinence from the IP stack were not huge concerns when I wrote the comment.
Now, excuse my ignorance, but do the alt internets actually forgo the IP protocol, or just the IP stack? I’ve never tried running them directly on the hardware, so I don’t know if they work without the internet backbone (eg. routing via MAC and IP).