Honestly, I look at this and I see a future where everyone runs their own Federated services. I can verify my child’s age as well as mine and I’m the best one to decide what they can and can’t see. So I only need to worry about me and my family.

Or a local community can run it for themselves.

A forced move away from social media, because they can’t afford the risk, to one where we all run our own stuff and can follow who we want.

This is only 1 possible outcome of course, and it’s wildly idealist, but it’s a future I’m going to push for no matter what. So I’m very biased, so don’t take my opinion into account. :D

Honestly, I look at this and I see a future where everyone runs their own Federated services

on mesh networks. these already exist for basic communication, and are pretty cheap to be a part of since you can either purchase ready-to-use communicators, or make your own. the relays can also run off very small solar panels, and be stuck in a tree, on a post, or on a roof because they are tiny. best of all, the government can’t control them and they feature E2EE.

you got any tutorials or suggested hardware to join a mesh network? id be interested… it’s only a matter of time before the public internet is just unusable.

To join you need to either have an established mesh network already (assuming you don’t want to start a ISP)

right i found meshtastic.org through lemmy … and its a cool concept … purchase some hardware and join the network… download app… and you can do text communication… i was just wondering if there were more robust mesh networks with more capabilities than a text message. id rather just get prepared for when the rug is pulled out from underneath us and we have to get an anal cavity search just to check the weather.