Olivier Forget @teleclimber@social.tchncs.de
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Lots of talk in this article about being in hiding and in the dark on the Internet nowadays because it is overrun by bots and slop and algorithms.

ystrickler.com/dftrevisited/

It just so happens I am working on making dropserver.org "go dark" as well. I want it to be possible* to set up an instance with no public access, and use it solely through private networking (specifically Tailscale for now). I think this is the path forward. The Internet is changing and how we use the protocols that enable it will be changing too.

*It's possible now, but I want to make it more straightforward.

Article found via @yaxuAlex McLean

The internet is dying on the outside but growing on the inside

Dark Forests rule everything around us. Signal chats to plan wars? Check. Private group chats where rival athletes discuss injuries? Check. Communications increasingly monitored by states and authorities? Check. A decrease in posting on social media? Check again. In 2019 I wrote that the internet was becoming dangerous and people

www.ystrickler.com · Yancey Strickler

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