• 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.ml
    71·
    2 days ago

    If you need your id to access internet: not use it anymore, selfhosting go brrr

    If you need your id for all content-sharing websites like social media or microblogging: return back to good ol webrings and static websites. Can’t kill the web on its core principles. No algorithms, pure passion and creativity.

  • appropriateghost@lemmy.ml
    15·
    2 days ago

    I’ve gone long years without using any social media associated to my identity, as many others do, and i’ll eat my cooked shirt if I start thinking, “hey sure why not let me into this shitty internet”.

    I’ll be fine without using the internet if it comes down to it, at that point it’d be a liability. Dinosaurs think they can control the internet which is a hilarious proposition in the first place.

  • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    24·
    3 days ago

    Hope that this will completely kill the corporate Internet and switch to exclusively using FOSS federated or decentralized services for everything.

  • yonderbarn@lazysoci.al
    6·
    2 days ago

    As of now I only visit a handful of privacy respecting sites on a regular basis. For all others I use web archive links rather than actually visiting the site.

    • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      whats still p2p today? seems like mostly everything was updated to run through corporate servers. i mean heck chats no longer has the capabilities they used to when things were p2p; now, a chat has like one single feature, to chat, and half the time that doesn’t even work because their servers are down lol.

      • utopiah@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 day ago

        whats still p2p today? seems like mostly everything …

        Sure 99.99% of traffic might still go through Netflix and Spotify and YouTube… but even .01% of traffic going through The Pirate Bay or CloudTorrents or Anna’s Archive (which does provide torrents) it’s still billions of files shared by millions of people, directly, from their computers to yours.

        FWIW to get a very rough approximation, according to https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-is-no-longer-the-king-of-upstream-internet-traffic-240315/ BitTorrent is about ~5% of worldwide traffic.

        My own perspective is that… not only streaming works well but there is also a huge economical incentive. YouTube started by facilitating the sharing of video content, including pirate one, BUT also made a way to earn money through ads. TikTok did the same with an ever bigger promise of fame. So I think the mechanism changed, namely it’s not anymore about sharing content “just” to share but it’s also with the hope of making an income from it. It’s probably important to disentangle all that before comparing too much the trends.

        PS: my own P2P (optional for transfer and with registrations closed, so mostly for me to broadcast my own content) video server https://video.benetou.fr/ relying on PeerTube to give also an example without any pirated content.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      and make sure it’s a foreign fake so that the system is unable to detect the security features that fakes usually don’t have

  • banazir@lemmy.ml
    11·
    3 days ago

    I would like to think I would just stop using the Internet, or at least adopt a protocol like Gemini. How that would work exactly is hard to say, since the Internet is almost mandatory these days. Still, you have to be willing to inconvenience yourself to maintain at least some control on privacy and security online.