Comment by bodegajed
5 hours ago
Yeah, it's kinda sad reality and I suddenly felt gloomy. Do you have a more optimistic view that you can share?
5 hours ago
Yeah, it's kinda sad reality and I suddenly felt gloomy. Do you have a more optimistic view that you can share?
Let me introduce you to the decentralized alternative to ISPs, connecting and collaborating with the new-ish wireless mesh networks that are still active and maintained. The three biggest AFAIK are Freifunk (Germany), Guifi (Spain) and NYCMesh (NYC/US?).
Basically, you can as a private individual set up a wireless node, talk with your nearest node that you have a visual line of sight to, and get connected to a completely separate network from the internet, where there is a ton of interesting stuff going on, and it's mostly volunteer run.