Makes me wonder if the future of the internet is federated network hardware. There’s already efforts in bigger cities to distribute mesh networks (especially to lower-income areas), so it doesn’t seem like a far leap to create an internet by users and for users.

future of the internet is federated network hardware

At the very least, that was its past. It was built as a nuke-resilient self-healing early mesh concept.

Then it got commercialized and peers couldn’t trust each other so much, so we have the drunken-starfish setup we have now.