when downloading torrents you have a bunch of seeders and maybe most won’t be online, but some will be. I’m so so tired with services and monopolies. Do you think it would be possible to create an internet where instead of large servers we just have individuals hosting their email service, the communities they like to post in and sharing files. essentially it’s just torrent with email and message board
Is that not what the Fediverse is though? I mean in essence?
I’m working on the beginnings of a project which is aiming to do exactly this – I agree; the Fediverse is already a huge step in this direction, but I think it’d be possible to go even further, such that “your content” is often being hosted by your own machine instead of depending on an instance operator somewhere to do it, and I think there would be some big advantages to doing it that way.
Unlike actual mature solutions which others have proposed in this thread, it’s in this very early infancy stage, but I’m working this weekend on the update which was supposed to be ready in “1-2 weeks” 2+ weeks ago.
/c/grits@lemmy.world, grits project discussion / updates
You’re sort of describing Freenet.
You should check out IPFS which is pretty similar to what you’re describing, at least for file storage (which can be used to host web content).
Thanks, yep. found that after some research. found some email client with ipfs and proof of replication but it’s some crypto scam shit that’s dead anyways
So basically the internet before the World Wide Web?
Yep, back when nothing was encrypted and all email was trusted. There was peace at the beginning then scammers and spammers found out everything was trusted and started spamming the hell out of everyone.
People would enter credit card info into random web forms what would store the full info in email hosted by that party.
Then fraud became a huge issue, email got dmarc spf dkim checks, websites where mandated to have https, and credit card and private info had laws about safe storage and liability.
There were also a lot fewer users, you could host a simple website for thousands of viewers easy but now scaling for 10s of thousands of viewers if your site is linked from a popular source could easily take you down.
However it is still 100% possible to host your own stuff, the technical know how however is a barrier for most.