More SaidIt GUI ideas/issues

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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

About the A+++ list... They may be A+++ to us or they may also be A+++ because they are concise and to the point and/or they maybe perfect to share to newbies and sheeple like my Mom, who's starting to wake up some (still a looooong way to go). Some of the older A+++ may also be something profound that was either new to me or new at the time. I'm not going to watch them all over again, but I suspect some may be just A++ now.

YouTube is where the sheeple flock is. Most folks on alt-tubes are preaching to the choir. Censorship is the battleground for hearts and minds and freedom and truth. I think that until the A.I. DemiGod Overlord shuts us down that's where the battle will remain unless we can really get this decentralized web thing working.

It's a chicken-egg thing. I am broke as fuck but in a stable situation. I'd LOOOOVE to buy a big server to co-host SaidIt (when they figure out their decent-web plan), and PeerTube, DTube, IPFS, Holochain, ZeroNet, etc, as well as renting out space. I might even be able to beg borrow steal seed funding for it. BUT, if there is no demand for the Decent-Web then there's little chance all the content I host will earn Filecoin, Steemit, Holo-coin, etc etc etc for the service that would be provided (for maintenance, connection, upgrades, expansion, sustainability), there's no way to compete with the established cloud-based corporate overlords.

As much as I'd love to buy a big server, I'd love EVEN MORE to have everyone (that can afford it) have a dishwasher or refrigerator sized server in their home, perhaps in the basement beside their similarly sized water heater, air conditioner, and/or home heating system - with everyone's system sustainably earning and growing, even if half of them were serviced by trusted local tech folks. THAT's how this COULD work, if people actually properly could invest in their future freedom.

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there's no way to compete with the established cloud-based corporate overlords.

true that. at least this whole operation and my peertube server are amazon and google free. I like the home server idea, but I think it means you have to buy an expensive ISP plan and be pinned down somewhat. If you go big though it makes sense.

if people actually properly could invest in their future freedom

Amen let's do the damn thing.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's my point.

The system is rigged in every way. The expensive ISP service is barely any different than regular service. That's intentional. They don't want good or competitive networks out there.

But if everyone had one and demanded a better price, maybe.

Or... We adapt and build our own in various ways. Let's for the moment pretend that everyone is adopting this new decentralized system and it all pays for itself as the market meets the demand. (Rather than supply side economics overproducing shit for landfills, demand side is superior and less wasteful.) But "they" are closing down the connections and services.

So we adapt. Rather than relying only on direct physical networks we can create wireless networks like the Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking (B.A.T.M.A.N.) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N.

But we don't want to burden wireless systems much less adopt 5G or worse to increase bandwidth. If every computer server system had something like FreeNAS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS ) in it, you could be make lots of redundant drive, not only good for backup security but also for "trade". Let's say every week you shipped a couple 4tb drives to a network determined location somewhere else near or far to perpetuate and spread the information you had. Also, you'd be copying new redundant drives all week and every week you'd also receive a couple 4tb drives from some other seemingly random place. Random to people, but determined by the systems operated by folks. For example, all of this weeks updates on GitLab could be put on a drive and shipped to one town in Africa to be disperesed there. Not the best example.

So maybe they'd try to stop shipments. That doesn't stop people from inventing their own systems. You viisit your friends and neighbors and coworkers and swap drives with them. Some folks travel to other towns etc. etc. etc. It could be a way of life - only if 1) people rejected the authority systems and 2) the decent-web systems could be profitable and sustainable on some level small or large.

Anyway, they say most of the traffic on the interwebs is Netflix and porn. Even if you drop the porn, Netflix is serving content that could be compressed with x265. Also they shouldn't be serving everyone, so much as seeding to some who share with others, like webtorrent. In this way Bitchute, PeerTube, etc are a superior model to YouTube if they could expand and everyone be part of the participatory cloud rather rely on the authority cloud.