I vaguely remember you listing something to type to mask/hide your client address.  What was that scriptfu?

Parler is one site. Go to Uncensored.citadel.org and log in and create an account there. Parler is beholden to registrars and authoritative domains and ISPs and whoever monitizes their site. 

These little sites, these grassroot sites - will be like a plague. You take one down, 10 more will pop up. 

This is how we win. And technology will evolve - peer to peer node-based WiFi ad-hoc networks that only rely on ISPs for the "big" jumps - but that relay traffic from participating hotspot to participating hotspot across your city. That is inevitable too. It is the nature of the Internet to route around censorship - and as Federal and State Governments lock down IP traffic over legitimate ISPs - node-based sharing will be virtually unstoppable for them. It'll come - I can *imagine* it now - and it would work. It would be like SETI at home, instead of sharing bandwidth on our CPUs to listen for aliens, we'll share unused bandwidth on our WiFi routers to experience uncensored, non-corporate communication. If I'm *thinking* about it - someone is almost certainly working on it. 

It's coming. 

Parler and GAB and other "Conservative uncensored social media" sites that aren't considering alternatives this radical will get choked out. But THIS - they can't actually stop.

Seriously - have you looked at the density of WiFi hotspots on your block, in your neighborhood, in your entire city? 

Node hopping from one WiFi hotspot to another will allow you to communicate with ANY system in your city - without an ISP or any other official entity ever doing anything to facilitate it. 

Implemented properly - it would change telecommunications as significantly as TCP/IP and the WWW did in the 90s. 

Sun Jun 23 2019 22:02:35 MST from ParanoidDelusions Subject: Re: fu

Seriously - have you looked at the density of WiFi hotspots on your block, in your neighborhood, in your entire city? 

Node hopping from one WiFi hotspot to another will allow you to communicate with ANY system in your city - without an ISP or any other official entity ever doing anything to facilitate it. 

Implemented properly - it would change telecommunications as significantly as TCP/IP and the WWW did in the 90s. 

 

I would very happily tithe 10% of my gigabit of Wi-Fi bandwidth for this cause. 

Mon Jun 24 2019 11:43:52 MST from Wangiss Subject: Re: fu

 

Sun Jun 23 2019 22:02:35 MST from ParanoidDelusions Subject: Re: fu

 

I would very happily tithe 10% of my gigabit of Wi-Fi bandwidth for this cause. 

I do envision it as being user-throttle enabled where you can dial in how much of your bandwidth maximum you want to allocate - but I also think it should work like SETI at home, where it only uses spare resources that are not currently allocated - and if actual demand increases, the amount available for the sidenet would scale down automatically. Programmatically - that seems fairly easy to achieve. 

I don't know jack about that kind of software, but yes, I would definitely click an option that said "Donate a maximum of 50% of unused resources (but leave 100% available for me when I am using it)."

Yup. That is the idea. 

I guess I'm going to relaunch a business idea that generated about 400k but which I terribly mismanaged and therefore crumbled. Now that I have a much more stable situation and a personal assistant maybe it'll go much broader and I can avoid some pitfalls which are dead obvious with three years of perspective between now and then. Basically if I'm patient and only sell it at the big conventions until I have plenty of experimentation money for the smaller ones, it'll be cash positive in 3-6 months. I already have the IP developed completely, which was the only time suck. And if we sell it at PAX West as the first event, that could conceivably pay for the first entire printing. I'd have to have a business partner, but a couple of friends are interested. The point will be to minimize risk instead of aggressively seeking upside. I hope I'm not performing a sunk-cost fallacy here, looking at all the market research that could have saved the brand if I'd known it at the beginning instead of the end. 

Is anyone here a business consultant who can go over this idea with me? Or do you know one? I can pay.

I don't know anyone. You should get on Twitter and get involved with the Comicsgate group. They're up the alley of what you're trying to achieve. Ethan Van Sciver is a good first person to follow. @AbacusMike is another one. They're both indy comics writers who've had very successful kickstarter or indigogo campaigns (I mean, over $1,000,000 in sales for Ethan, I believe.) 

Yeah, Ethan is killing it. Every time I read or watch anything he writes I get super hyped, too. 

He is a really nice guy, too. He gets a really bad rap from the Ultra-Left SJW community. 

Gab is going to make independent servers that can voluntarily connect and share identities across their sidenet.

Pretty soon it's going to be sidenets all the way down. I am so libidinous for the increasingly anarchist future of communications.

I mean you'll be able to set up your own on its protocol and connect to others and the web at large at whim. So hot.

Wed Jul 03 2019 12:10:01 MST from Wangiss

I mean you'll be able to set up your own on its protocol and connect to others and the web at large at whim. So hot.

Do want.  Pirate internet FTW

Can you send a link to more on this? It sounds very interesting. 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gab-decentralizing-raising-10-million-134916662.html

The term Fediverse is delightful. 

Mon Jul 08 2019 10:12:28 MST from Wangiss

 

The term Fediverse is delightful. 

Pretty awesome. Hope it takes off. 

And there's the problem.  All of the anti-social media people need to unite!   Also we need to nuke California off the map. 

Tue Jul 09 2019 07:24:53 MST from IGnatius T Foobar

And there's the problem.  All of the anti-social media people need to unite!   Also we need to nuke California off the map. 

Looks like Facebook may be trying to pressure spdns.org to suspend my account by banning *all* spdns.org DdNS destinations from posting links on Facebook. I'm trying to deal with it - but if spdns.org suspends me - it may be difficult. I'll end up posting any fix on Facebook if I don't get banned, on Twitter, otherwise - maybe GAB too. 

This could get interesting. 

You'd better get a backup working before you need it.

I use afraid.org to reach the DDNS on my home network.  They have hundreds of domains.