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toyg ◴[] No.36863175[source]
This might be where the internet really gets forked, as it's been predicted over and over since the '90s.

On one side, we'll have a "clean", authority-sanctioned "corpweb", where everyone is ID'ed to the wazoo; on the other, a more casual "greynet" galaxy of porn and decentralized communities will likely emerge, once all tinkerers get pushed out of corpnet. It could be an interesting opportunity to reboot a few long-lost dreams.

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1. sircastor ◴[] No.36867004[source]
This is what saddens me so much about darknet/meshnet/"open confederated systems". They seem to attract the people and content that are not welcome anywhere, and so they show up here because they got kicked out of everywhere else. With the early web it was first research institutions and then hobbyists and early adopters. Nowadays you can't run your bar without some Neo-Nazis showing up and trying to make your bar their local hangout.