I'm depressed that we're on the brink of the internet becoming essentially unusable.

Nothing ever happens.

>>106085573 (OP)
Happened years ago.

>>106085579
>>106085588
So, like I said, on the brink.

>>106085573 (OP)
become a freetard before it becomes impossible to break free from proprietary clutches

>>106085573 (OP)
>britain and australia geobanned
>"unusable"

>>106085573 (OP)
We can go back to ham radio.

my local government hasnt banned me from the internet yet so

It's been mostly unusable for close to a decade now. None of the search engines find anything. Everyone is clustered into two or three walled gardens where comments are disappeared regularly. Bulletin boards (the optimal form of internet communication) are passe in favor of infinite-scroll single-threaded dogshit. Every single remaining discussion area is flooded with paid and unpaid shills/bots from the government and various corporations. Most websites don't even have proper timestamps on content anymore (X days ago is not a timestamp).

>>106085798
>BBS
Calling people is still cheap. BBS has low bandwidth. How feasible is it to recreate dial up but secure from gov phreaks MITMing?

>>106085752
us and eu r propsing similar laws rn so at this point the entire fucking west is gonna be banned

>>106085573 (OP)
Normies will adapt, like they always do. The freaks will retreat into their little obscure corners of the web. Overall, I think not much will change. Privacy has already ceased to exist. People don't use their freedom to do useful things.

>>106085753
unironically this, lets bring back unlicensed pirate HAM radio

>>106085919
>emitting easily traceable radiation.

the internet will be ran entirely from crypto rigs before that happens

>>106085821
Usenet is still alive, isn't it?

>>106085821
>How feasible is it to recreate dial up but secure from gov phreaks MITMing?
just use signal like presidents, feds and drug dealers, there is a reason why they use it.

I want an encrypted, decentralized altchan, with a high tech barrier to engry, accessible in the continetnal U.S. targeting OG 4chan demographics (weeb tech nerds), Is there any way I can accomplish this?

>>106086862
make it i2p only
>encrypted
imageboards are literally public, what do you want to encrypt?

>>106086921
I hate to say it, but it may need a level of gatekeeping as well, but I'm not sure if that would make it unviable, I haven't thought that far in the future. I've seen some like your example, somehow crackheads still make their way onto it.

>>106086862
@grok lets write the codes for this project. only write good codes no bugs and don[t make mistakes. go

>>106086946
i think i2p will be enough gatekeeping to filter out retards.
maybe throw this onto every page:
<script>
while (true) { alert("Please disable JavaScript to view this page."); }
</script>

>>106085945
I'm gonna emit my cum in your ass

>>106085573 (OP)
brink? its unusuable as is. search is broken and even mainstream sites are half bots half braindead faggots. nothing is worth replying to anymore

>>106085945
Drive around with a handheld HAM radio and piss off boomers because you don't have your loicense

>>106087188
Maybe that part will trend at some point again. At this point there are certain things to do that you couldn't before. Maybe searching is possible to some extent. Different search engines seem ok a lot of the time. I've never been a tech professional and I don't plan on it, but uh... idk. Internet is further along now. I don't think that makes it unusable for me anyway. This has been my main hobby about 20 years now

>>106085573 (OP)
80's boomer here, same thing happened with TV and Radio. Things used to be freer until soccer mom's started "FOR THE CHILDREN" and they take on a new name and shape every decade evangelize, sjw, karens, etc.

There is a light at the end of that tunnel but it'll take a few decades when everyone left the internet for something else but by then it'll be husk of its former self and seen as an old people communication tool but for the most part the internet will be slightly back to its former glory once you kick all the kids off it. The main reason all this shit starts is when too many people get on it.

It's like watching your granny get dementia or your dog get sick, what are these fucking assholes doing to the internet, man. Every year it somehow gets worse

>>106085573 (OP)
Internet needs to be locked down so people can't easily see footage of their family members getting droned in the upcoming world war.

>>106085821
You don't need dialup for a BBS. My favorite is accessible by ssh and telnet. Although if you want you can still use dial up and you can even so dialup over VOIP. It won't be fast but it works.
At the moment the BBS scene is small but alive.
So why not explore. The powers that be might gatekeep the web/http but the BBS is outside their system.

>>106088812
So this is it, we must move to boomer technology to survive, BBS, and HAM radio, HERE I COME!

>>106085573 (OP)

>>106085573 (OP)
>unusable
Not so much unusable just moderated for proper interpretations from the experts known as AI and big brother tier monitoring. It's thought control of the masses, so it won't be unusable. It'll just be used in a different way.

>>106085573 (OP)
Learn to use Tor and I2P right NOW.
Download a copy of wikipedia before fake history makes its way in via AI "proofs" of events.
Throw money at decentralized internet projects.
Install Linux and force yourself to get used to it, because the censorship will eventually be hard coded into Windows and MacOS.

>>106088829
Well yes but you can use other tech both new and old. The important part is that it has to be obscure. The powers that be cant monitor everything and they are not going to waste resources trying. They will lock down whatever normalfags use. Freedom exits within the cracks where they don't look.

>>106085945
If enough people do it then it essentially becomes an unpoliceable issue

>>106088961
Anon, I love you, but be careful don't move the normalfags with us, or the glowies will come too. Don't read much into this message emotionally, and please don't reply. It's time we take this trek alone. The right ones will find their way. It is bbs and ham.

>>106088992
>please don't reply
Fuck you, I do whatever I want.

>>106088992
>Anon, I love you
Then stop posting and fuck me already

>>106089364
Lube up daddy is coming in the backdoor!

>>106088865

>>106089463
jesus christ.

>BBS
Okay, suppose you set up a BBS, does it host sharewarez or is it just text board? If sharewarez or imgboard, what stops it from being flooded with CP? Either way, waht stops the DDOS? Is the only defense the fact that they're not actively targeting you because you're a nobody?

>>106085798
>(X days ago is not a timestamp).
>but a requirement
thanks for the suggestion. i knew my dates and times weren't hip enough
normies like x days ago.

>>106085573 (OP)
>the brink
For me it's been this way since Covid. the only real sites I use anymore are youtube and here, and youtube is quickly starting to erode.

Putting all normalfags online was always going to come with consequences.

>>106085573 (OP)
It hasn't been the thing I loved for over a decade at this point. Part of me feels that this will be a cleansing fire, even if what it cleanses is our dependence on the Internet.

>>106085798
>X days ago
I FUCKING HATE IT.
Who was the fuck who invented this and pushed it on every app and website?

>>106086862
Altchans with significantly lower barriers to entry already fail. You'd hardly have any users. Maybe that's what you want, I don't know

Enjoy what you voted for, dipshit.

>>106090514
Quality over quantity. The problem is that there's neither. Hardly anyone puts any effort into his posts nowadays.

>>106089434
My body is ready, don't keep me waiting

>>106085798
>>106089898
>>106090500
>X days ago
For me, the absolute worst is my bank's app:
>Last tuesday
Fucker, I'm maually copying my expenses to my spreadsheets, can you just give me a fucking date without requiring me to open the calendar?

Never take the blackpill. This pushback on these censorship laws is growing. People are not going to put up with this outside of AUS because they're completely cucked. The internet banded together to stop SOPA and it is going to do the same thing here.

>>106085573 (OP)
Only for normies who shouldn't be online anyway.
>>106085579
This.
>>106085919
Just hide a repeater behind someone's house you don't like and point your beam there.

>>106085573 (OP)
touch grass

>>106085919
How much data can radio transmit? Listened to some numbers station and there's clearly digital data between some tracking markers or whatever.

>>106094695
There is nothing close to the cohesion or political will today that made ending SOPA possible today. KOSA is not even close to dead at this point, especially now that SCROTUS says they're cool with porn bans. There is probably more support than ever at this point to censor web.

No one gives a shit about privacy either, so you can't lean on that argument. Personal data also already gets leaked all the time without consequence and the NSA leaks accomplished nothing. These people will blindly hand their ID over to the lowest bid data broker so they can watch PornHub and forget they ever did.

>>106085612
If the Internet were a porno, and unusable was the cumshot of no return, your mom already swallowed and is playing with the remnants on her face with her fingers and blowing spit bubbles at this point.

>>106086862
yes and you'd be the only poster, even altchans with no barrier to entry are literal ghost towns no one uses

>>106094695
>This pushback on these censorship laws is growing
I feel like this is the real issue here. I dont know why I keep seeing stuff like "search engines are unusable", like I have never had that issue ever. The issue I do have that is increasingly growing is that content on the web keeps getting pulled or put behind various barriers. For instance entire mangas pulled entirely from sites like mangadex, or even images being put into weird formats like webp that make it harder to collect images for personal use. I literally dont image post anymore because unless I use something that I already have saved in a folder there are so many hurdles to find usuable images from search engines. That and every single site needing an account or even a subscription just to go view something when its not necessary at all. Here is another example of how bad things are:

>buy beard trimmer at walmart
>it doesnt come with a charger to recharge it
>go back and realize, none of them do
>same thing at Target
>well okay guess I will just buy the charger separaetly
>they dont sell them in store anywhere
>told by wage slaves to go buy online
>only place I can buy said chargers online is through amazon, which you have to have an amazon prime subscription of some sort to even order anything
>so in order to use a beard trimmer I bought at a store, I need to also pay amazon for a subscription to pay them to give me a charger that should have been included with the product to begin with

>>106085573 (OP)
It's a smartphone holocaust and that's a good thing.

>>106085798
It's insane how much every search engine has gotten worse over the years. I suppose it's not entirely their fault though, there are also thousands or millions of sites designed around "search engine optimization" that offer nothing but paraphrased and summarized information from actual websites

The Internet is way more boring and less useful than it used to be

>>106095193
> There is nothing close to the cohesion or political will today that made ending SOPA possible today.
So the army of people calling/trolling VISA/Mastercard, Britains flat out refusing to go along with the new laws, and US layers about to serve Ofcom a class action lawsuit on top of the White House being pissed off and looking into it don't count as "cohesion" or "political will" to you?
> especially now that SCROTUS says they're cool with porn bans
age verification, not porn ban.
> There is probably more support than ever at this point to censor web.
glow harder.

>>106089463
Ahh

>>106089463
That's fucking scary man

>>106090514
Holotower is standing strong

>>106085573 (OP)
it's already unusable

>>106091549

FART

>>106085573 (OP)
2014 called it wants it’s unusable internet back
>>106095989
>I suppose it's not entirely their fault though
This just demonstrates that you are naive cattle that can’t identify your enemy, you have no clue how disgustingly disingenuous these people are who want power.

>>106095887
> search engines are unusable
Search engines are unusable and somehow getting worse enough that they are getting phased out. You can keep being retarded and posting schitzo wordsalad though

>>106091549
The problem is demons and their love of destructive emr fields

>>106096423
See here's the problem: You're attempting to be logical with corporate dickriders.

/g/ is teh corporate dickrider capital of the internet. They will always make doomposts like >>106095193 and completely ignore the hours of work, years of manpower, and hundreds of thousands of dollars groups like the EFF and ACLU are putting into stopping this kind of thing.


Why? because that defeats their narrative, it makes them not feel like a special snowflake above the cattle too stupid to think everything is over and nobody is fighting back and everyone voted for this and wants mass surveillance.

Meanwhile when people actually do something and put their money where their mouth is like the Visa/Mastercard protests or the OSA petition, these dickriders are the FIRST PEOPLE to scream and shout "STOP DOING SOMETHING!!!" They don't even get paid for it either, they're doing it for free.

>>106100601
They're worse than that, when people actually do something, /g/ are the first people to start going through post histories to find the one Tranny in the EFF to say "SEEEEEEEEEEEE EFF ARE TRANNIESSSSSSSSSSSS THIS IS TROONTECH 41% STOP GIVING THEM MONEY IT'S GOING TO HRT!!!!" because /g/ may as well be renamed to /g/lowniggers with how transparent the hold Eglin has over this board.

>>106100601
>>106100626
Shills are awake guess it’s time to go live my life until they go back to bed. 8:45am you guys are a little late today

>>106100655
>Shills
Shilling for what you fucking retard? Signing a petition? Making a phone call? "Shilling" is done to make profit on something.

>>106100655
>"SHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSS!!!!"
Oh I forgot that corporate dickrider slogan too, thanks!

I guess the way could be something like Geocities / webrings, but with one rule.

No telemetry, no ads, no popup, no JS.

A dedicated search engine only to the place, or group listings. They created a walled garden, you can create your own, clean garden with no walls.

>>106100626
what kind of projection is this?

trannies/lefties are the first to cancel someone because he has different beliefs than them. while normal people are willing to debate things, at which point trannies/lefties always lose.

>>106085573 (OP)
The real datakrash was the AI slop we generated along the way

>>106100689
>>106100711
Shills on suicide watch lmao

>>106085573 (OP)
Maybe we just go back to a smaller, enthusiast-driven internet over IRC or whatever

>>106098447
>>106098416
>>106089467
The population of India outnumbers the population of US, Europe AND Japan put together.

I just want to know what the fuck ignited the entire thing

>>106085573 (OP)
Take away my internet and my sole function is to hunt pussy and make as many women stinky as possible. I will also have as many illegitimate children as possible and make them fight for whatever I leave behind (Nothing)

>>106105113
Declining support for Israel and pressure to release the Epstein files.

>>106095125
10,500 bits per second within the standard single sideband 2400hz audio bandwidth if you use an advanced SCS Pactor 4 modem and the shortwave propagation is favorable.
So back to dial up, but honestly, I'd love that. Getting sick and tired of those huge, blaring, hyperactive graphical ads everywhere. Don't even get me started on autoplaying video ads (with or without audio)

>>106105113
It's a long drawn out battle that started when we went from dialup to DSL; porn became common and accessible enough, because the internet became common and accessible enough.
for some it is to genuinely protect the children, but then we should perhaps also curb the normalization of nudity and sex or and such of our society through ads and media, which would be the first thing children experience instead of internet porn. but going against that is prude and boomerish, and sex sells, so it is inherently pro-communist to bring that up. Result: internet porn must be stopped, ads can do whatever up to a point.
For some it is to kill general internet anonymity instead, because for example they are a journalist and they don't like getting mean tweets. Not joking here. There are faggots out there that want you to have to upload your ID to make a twitter account.
Obviously there are many reasons to want to kill general internet anonymity. big tech wants to finally with 100% confidence tie metadata/IP-address data/cookie profiles etc they built up to actual living persons. They can do this with 99.9% accuracy, but it is not 100%.
Zoomers are becoming so tech illiterate that they can not be bothered with these issues. They lured them in with smartphone technology and cloud services, and made the entire zoomer generation almost as techboomer as actual boomers.
We are losing this battle. And I don't know how we could win it. Even if we stopped developing a hundred different troon distros and put all that effort into one usable, secure-by-design & privacyrespecting-by-design opensource and free operating system, I'm worried

>>106106241
>which would be the first thing children experience instead of internet porn.
The first time I ever saw a naked female was the pictures of dead bodies piled up in mounds during holocaust education.

>>106106375
okay but did you get a boaner?

>>106085579
prime example

>>106085573 (OP)
We are going to get into the "prohibition" phase
When everybody discover a way to pass the restrictions and the government discovers how much money is wasting and failing anyways then we are going to enter the "acceptance and reform phase"
And the story is going to repeat again in 50 years

why not just build your own little internet using scrap parts to form decentralized shitpost processing barns?

>>106085573 (OP)
The very same was said about regulatory Net Neutrality

>>106085573 (OP)
you're way behind its been unusable implicitly for some time, now it will be explicitly unusable

>>106107641
Followed by GDPR as the next phase of a compulsory data collection, sold to data brokers and with frequent security breaches. Causing problems to enforce a 'selling solution'.

>>106085573 (OP)
GDPR made immense damages to small websites, these new laws will destroy them almost completely

>>106098570
Holotower is the odd one out, but frankly it's so censored that it's no fun to use. It's basically reddit in imageboard style.

>>106085573 (OP)
wget *.*.*.* | zip | pngify | sql