Subj : Re: Notice that...
To   : tenser
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Feb 15 2022 18:34:52

  Re: Re: Notice that...
  By: tenser to boraxman on Wed Feb 16 2022 10:06 am

 > On 14 Feb 2022 at 09:31p, boraxman pondered and said...
 > 
 >  bo> But the newer Internet does suck.  Social Media, tracking, doxxing, mandatory
 >  bo> accounts and giving information to companies.  This suspicion
 >  bo> is definitely warranted.
 > 
 > You're describing applications of the Internet, not the Internet
 > itself.  At this point, for all intents and purposes, BBSes and
 > their networks are also applications of the Internet.  Indeed,
 > Fidonet has relied on the Internet for international distribution
 > for 30 years.

Give it a couple of years and the Internet will suck too.

Search engines are already gating what we get to see online. There is some material
which is hard to find only because search engines will filter it.

Ipv6 is a poor substitute for ipv4, but the alternative is sticking with ipv4 and
losing end-to-end connectivity, which affects lots of services already. It is getting
harder to run a hobby server or just a network reachable torrent node due to the IP
shortage.

You put a hobby server online and russian bots start raping it, with the passion of a
gang of orcs who finds a Nymph tied to a tree in the forest. Place a captcha in front
of your site and they will hire a legion of 3rd worlders to break past it and flood
you anyway. Then you place your site behind a content distribution network in order to
be protected, and become a slave to them (and drag your users with you at the same
time).

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