• Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Sure, but we’re quickly approaching wireless distances where even a few people in a metro area can get a mesh network going.

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      That could be made illegal as well if the FCC felt inclined to. Radio direction finding would make tracking down mesh nodes fairly trivial for them.

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      Range isn’t the only factor, though. Noise tolerance is another significant one, and if mesh networks take off, I think a lot of long distance radios and other devices will struggle in dense locations. Imagine tens of thousands of overlapping devices with no real capacity to coordinate resource sharing so they’re all just shouting over each other.

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      So that a few 100 people can spam test on the public channel and forget about it.

      If you want to know how to really function in a surveillance state look at the Russian underground networks: irc over (insert proxy method here)

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          So…. You have extremely biased message boards, controlled by mods with no oversight, and the dialogue is controlled by a handful of users? You’re not selling it very well lmfao. There’s a reason why this isn’t exactly a thing yet, it’s just not robust or has anything useful, Wikipedia? News? Anything actually useful or relevant this could be used for? How would you send out breaking information like people need to evacuate?

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              I ask again, with what information? Just having a network means squat, unless some has downloaded and stored all this information. And who’s paying for the harddrives and power requirements? Maintenance? Security?

              You’re honestly selling a dream, even if the netowrk exists that it’s useable enmasse, where is the information coming from? How’s it being stored for everyone else to access? What you have in your city, won’t be in mine. How do you transfer the data between cities?

              It’s a great imaginary thing though.

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                why, who is paying for the fediverse? and how does information appear on it?

                not all information has to be stored inside these small distributed networks. a lemmy running on it could communicate with other fediverse servers still on the public internet. or with those running on the I2P network, or with those accessible some other way.

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                  and how does information appear on it?

                  From external sources… which is what would be censored. Follow the chain, it’s about a specific scenario. Hardly any of the Fediverse is locally stored other than the comments, it’s mostly news links. Which would be blocked….

                  And how does Lemmy communicate with another server if there’s no connection? You’re ignoring how the system is being censored or limited. Yes if none of these were issues or a concern, you could use a mesh network for stuff. But that’s no what was asked.