Seriously any centralised social network hosted in the USA, Russia, China, Australia (to name but a few) is fully traceable, can easily be censored, and can be held legally accountable.
No so easy with peer-to-peer networks or decentralised networks hosted across numerous countries. It’s not impossible, but seriously centralised network = no privacy.
See https://mashable.com/article/parler-first-amendment-fbi-users-outraged
#technology #privacy #parler #freespeech
I honestly don’t understand how you can trust any social media or service in general that’s based in the US.
Yes I was thinking that too afte ri posted… Parler’s first move surely was to host offshore. That was really pretty dumb of them (or intentional).
Yes, decentralization is the way, but it has to be aplied at the maximun level, at the ISP level. The only sustainable solution I see starts whit a decentralized internet otherwise the ISP still can deliver information to cental govs.
There are a number of aproaches being developed right now so it has plenty of potencial, and also some decentraliced VPN that works in a similar way.
What are the decentralized ISP options you know about?
You can take a look at this proyect
I’ve founf other a week ago but I cant find it right now, I will send you the other if I find it. Basically are two tipes of models so far, with dedicated hardware you purchase and put into work to provide infrastructure to the P2P network and other without spetialozed hardware. Both reward you with some sort of crypto token to build the incentive to dedicate resources to build your node.
If you find anything else please share it here!
That’s really cool, thanks for sharing.
Here is the decentraliced VPN example, you can find more if you search for “dVPN”
Another interesting reading are the “Unstopable domains”
There is also Freifunk, although its not a decentralized isp per se
For sure your own ISP is the weak link… I suppose those really concerned will be using an offshore VPN service would prevent snooping by the ISP.
I was reading this US-centric, China-fear paper which saw dependency as the major threat countries face. But in retrospect, centralization is in my opinion far greater a threat than dependency: Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion.
Yes but decentralization and P2P make that a lot harder?
We’re literally on one though lmao so, it’s already here. It’s just a matter of adoption
Kind of, it is hosted by a company and many users of Lemmy still here while many instances were made, including me of course.
People here have added good stuff already, so I need not comment on that. But why do a bunch of comments here have 1 downvote?
