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when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet

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been reading about dual power and how to grow my own tomatoes and i\u2019m wondering how and if we\u2019ll be able to start commie internet lol

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like obviously the internet is this huge electric capitalist controlled hardware infrastructure thing so after all that shuts down is there a way to do it ourselves lol

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i want to come home from a hard day on the communal allotment, kiss my Wife, crank up my generator, and start sharing meams!

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GOOD NEWS: the homegrown commie internet is in the works! Across the world, people fighting against censorship and for a more democratic internet are building mesh networks (meshnets) of long-range wifi (LoRa)

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Since wifi is just a standard for sending data through radio waves, and radio waves can go a pretty long way if you use \u2018em right, it\u2019s not that difficult to connect two computers by wifi from across town. Then you just keep adding more computers to the network and you\u2019ve got internet!

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Small antennae, like for connecting across the neighborhood, can literally be built out of trash

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And a larger, more accurate one can be built pretty cheap too

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(You can also reuse an old satellite TV dish, or really anything else that\u2019s roughly parabolic)

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There are LoRa meshnets in places like New York, India, and all over Europe: Spain (pictured below), Greece, Austria, Germany, etc

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As for sharing fresh m\u00ebm\u00eas, the network to go to is Scuttlebutt. Unlike most social media, Scuttlebutt posts are stored on your computer and sent directly to your friends\u2019 computers (rather than being stored on the cloud and sent to a central server). It works just fine over traditional internet, but you can also view and interact with it offline, and it has protocols for connecting over any means that two computers can share information - that includes LoRa, as well as hardwired connections, sneakernet (basically mailing a USB stick back and forth), etc

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What that means is you always know that your info is just as safe as the network it\u2019s sent on and the computer that receives it - no one even theoretically has the ability to collect and sell it all. And, since it\u2019s all run on your computer, there\u2019s no servers to go down or companies to go out of business that could destroy the whole thing

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You can read more about this kind of stuff here (or here if it\u2019s cloudy in Barcelona)!

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there\u2019s also the work being done by the DCPT, left-behind Detroiters meshing together their neighborhoods to share overpriced high-speed connections among the community and producing these good good educational documents, especially this rad resource page. building meshnets to share a global uplink is very similar to building meshnets for the purpose of intracommunication and these resources are useful in both cases

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I\u2019ve had a couple people ask about how to join/organize something like this, which is great! The best list of active projects I know of is here, though you should also do a search online if you don\u2019t see one in your area in case they missed it. For those without a nearby group, put a pin here and try contacting nearby pins as well - you can use the instructions on buildyourowninter.net as well as the DCPT\u2019s resources as linked above to get set up!

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Please reblog this version so others can get involved!

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