we're gonna have to rebuild and replace pretty much every layer of the web to take it back from centralization and corporatism 😰

@bob @garbados I see no reason why TCP/IP can't work if you have a reliable always-connected network, but it's not really designed for store-and-forward traffic with potentially days of latency (which you might be dealing with if you remove all infrastructure).

Worth noting that AMPRNet is a TCP/IP subnet (44.0.0.0/8) specifically for amateur radio usage, where commercial usage is forbidden. However, TCP/IP overhead over 300 baud HF backhaul is not pretty. Even 9600 baud between cities is bad.

@garbados @bob Some protocols underneath IP may well have to change (I'm not particularly familiar with that layer though), some protocols above IP will almost certainly have to change (to fight spam while discouraging centralization - note that there have been changes to protocols like SMTP to fight spam over the years, but they've promoted centralization instead of discouraging it).

@bob @bhtooefr can i spitball about dns for a sec?

i've been working on a tool that makes it easy for users to specify their own domain names, and to acquire domain lists from friends. it yields a kind of intentional web with a topology based on our personal relationships. the current implementation does it by messing with your hostfile which i'm inclined to believe is A Bad Idea but i'm enamoured by the notion of an intentional web.

@garbados @bob @bhtooefr there's some way to make a local DNS thing which resolves Tor .onion addresses to a local range, which is picked up by the local Tor programme. It's kinda "seamless" onion addresses. Maybe you could try something like that instead of hosts file?