Comment by Andrex
17 hours ago
A parallel, fully public and accessible internet being widespread and available for anyone with a slight tinkering kick... Could actually be really awesome.
Let the commerce-driven, corporatized hellhole that the modern web has become eat itself.
I love the vision, but I do wonder how the parallel internet will deal with DDoS levels of bot traffic.
I hear ‘web of trust’ pretty often and I like the idea but that’s not anonymous or accessible either
How do personal blogs deal with the HN hug of death? In this increasingly-utopian vision, I imagine that being more widespread than (paid) DDOS attempts. There won't be any money to be made (banks, Paypal, etc. won't trust the "parallel web") and with the proliferation of synthetic training data I'm not sure how useful a target a bunch of blogs and smallweb sites would be.
> I love the vision, but I do wonder how the parallel internet will deal with DDoS levels of bot traffic.
Something that makes it expensive to initiate a connection and cheap (relatively) to accept or reject would probably help. I think that’s a hard problem though.
Well, how does Tor or other services do it now?
Tor does it by being so painfully slow an unreliable that the only way you would use it is if there is a cocaine-style reward at the end of it.
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They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think.
I’m not talking about the network itself but the servers on the other end.
I guess my point is that while Google is definitely malicious, I don’t think every site using recaptcha is and if we expect them not to use that tool there should probably be an alternative.
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