We lost the #internet. In the last decades, what looked like a formidable
glimmer of hope for collective organisation and sharing of universal knowledge progressively turned into a hyper-centralized corporate nightmare of control and surveillance. Whether the “free internet” was a pipe dream in the first place, a PsyOp, or a parenthesis as quickly closed as it has been opened
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Yet, the promises of safer border-less electronic communications for all and universal access to uncensorable, shared, self- organized knowledge remain desirable objectives.
A few years ago, #Reticulum emerged as an alternative to the internet. It stands as a proposal that seems to learn from what turned the internet into such dystopian surveillance hell, and attempts to rebuild something differently, from scratch, avoiding those mistakes.
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The promise of Reticulum is: a resilient mesh network of safer communications
(decentralized, a-centered by nature and encrypted), organized by the people for the people, that cannot be stopped or censored.
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Read more about the promise of Reticulum in "The Zen of Reticulum": https://reticulum.network/manual/zen.html
Join us to discuss all things #Reticulum at #40C3!
@reticulumassembly i honestly think that the biggest issue with a dream like this is the reality of the infrastructure
@Abstract_Mage_Annastasia @reticulumassembly
Also: "organized by the people for the people, that cannot be stopped or censored."
This will be hard, given that it either has to be on top of existing infrastructure (ISPs, backbones, all not censorship resistant) or per wireless, with frequencies controlled by the governments.
Personally I think, we should see circumvention measures (and I cannot imagine this is something different, given the above dependencies) only as a very temporary stopgap measure and fight for the liberation of the internet --- something that is now overdue, was perhaps due already 15-20 years ago.
@glitzersachen @reticulumassembly in the end its just another facet of our overarching system issues
@Abstract_Mage_Annastasia @reticulumassembly
True. And I note that the rot began with the arrival of "but it must be possible to make a commercial profit 'in the internet'". When I arrived there (now-30y), commercial activity (including ads) was very much frowned upon.