Subj : Re: Notice that...
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Feb 16 2022 22:37:37

 Ar> Give it a couple of years and the Internet will suck too.
 Ar> 
 Ar> Search engines are already gating what we get to see online. There is
 Ar> some material
 Ar> which is hard to find only because search engines will filter it.
 Ar> 
 Ar> Ipv6 is a poor substitute for ipv4, but the alternative is sticking with
 Ar> ipv4 and
 Ar> losing end-to-end connectivity, which affects lots of services already.
 Ar> It is getting
 Ar> harder to run a hobby server or just a network reachable torrent node
 Ar> due to the IP
 Ar> shortage.
 Ar> 
 Ar> You put a hobby server online and russian bots start raping it, with the
 Ar> passion of a
 Ar> gang of orcs who finds a Nymph tied to a tree in the forest. Place a
 Ar> captcha in front
 Ar> of your site and they will hire a legion of 3rd worlders to break past
 Ar> it and flood
 Ar> you anyway. Then you place your site behind a content distribution
 Ar> network in order to
 Ar> be protected, and become a slave to them (and drag your users with you
 Ar> at the same
 Ar> time).
 Ar> 

This is going to sound elitist, but this is what happens when "the masses" get on board.  The IPV4 issue is something that fortunately doens't affect me, and is solved (to a degree) by IPV6, but most of the other problems are simply because everyone has Internet access, and the worlds BS is poured into it.

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