I guess why I think about these things is that as a good anarcho-techno-syndicalist (but only on Tuesdays), I often see what happens is that people are very enthusiastic about running their own Linux meshnetworks for freedom, but after a while you kind of want Mark Shuttleworth to do it for you, then Google, then Comcast then, oh shit I'm reading my Facebook at the combination PIzza Hut Taco Bell
@mala *follows for those "meshworks"*
@beadsland @mala aw man yeah what happened to mesh networks? I still kinda want one but running HTTP over slow wifi doesn't seem like quite the best fit
@natecull @beadsland well amusing meshnetworks are my go-to example for this. My theory of mesh networks is that they don't work, except where they work *brilliantly* -- and that is determined by how many anarchists you have locally to make sure that they keep working
e.g this amazingly huge one in Catalonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.netOakland:
https://peoplesopen.net/Detroit?
https://www.alliedmedia.org/dctp/digitalstewardsBerlin:
https://freifunk.net/