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  • Julian OliverJulianOliver@mastodon.social
    Jun 28, 2026, 12:41 PM

    On the VPN thread, here's a good article sent in by a student of ours detailing the deep centralisation of the VPN provider market, showing just how consolidated and concentrated it is behind the scenes

    codamail.com/articles/vpn_expo

    The need to shift away from dangerously expansive centralisations of tech power is just as valid for virtual private networking as it is for any digital tooling we use.

    The fight for the basic right to privacy must be decentralised, or that fight is already lost.

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  • kjveekjv@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Jun 28, 2026, 12:59 PM

    @JulianOliver

    Idk much about VPNs and stuff, but what's the difference between running a decentralized VPN and Tor (other than the difference in protocol/hops) ? Any decentralized VPN recommendations for normie users ?

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  • Julian OliverJulianOliver@mastodon.social
    Jun 28, 2026, 2:08 PM

    @kjv Tor (Browser) is primarily focused on anonymising you at the remote website. A VPN will tunnel all traffic from your system to the VPN server exit. Doing this with Tor is a bit of a fiddle & will be slower.

    Decentralised VPNs are deployed on a server rented or owned. Wireguard or OpenVPN are popular. Fam or friend runs that VPN & gives you a config, or vice versa

    Here's a post on it:

    courses.nikau.io/2026/03/24/wh

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