What about a decentralized imageboard?

What about a decentralized imageboard?

Let's make it happen.

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what coin was that?

then everyone would just post child porn alongside their shilling

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What about a decentralized Internet?

The current Internet is 100% centralized yet nobody talks about it. Blow up a few buildings, cut a few cables (which are publicly available and not really guarded in any way), and the Internet is dead. It's an act of global terrorism, sure, but it's not impossible for any government to pull off.

Decentralized Internet would be the future of the world.

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Oh, and not only that but it would be free.

A decentralized free Internet. But Comcast and every other Internet corporation would never fucking allow it.

zen /thread

>The current Internet is 100% centralized yet nobody talks about it.

Fuck. I haven't considered this properly. It is so centralised. I live in a country that sits on the lower end of the internet speed spectrum, so any improvement would be good.

Maybe someone like Elon Musk would create the network with satellites or something.
I how else could you get a network without going through ISP's?

It would be possible, I think the protocols are there, but you'd have to get thousands of people together to make a properly functioning mesh network, and then you'd probably need to piggyback on the real internet anyway to cross the oceans. There's not a lot of incentive to do so as long as the regular internet is functioning fine.

There are already two big ones

>how else could you get a network without going through ISP's?
ISPs lease cables from cable companies. You can also just lease cables as a private company, or lay cables and use them yourself if you have enough money. Some research projects have their own fiber networks, for example this supercomputer network connecting 5 dutch cities
cs.vu.nl/das5/connectivity.shtml

"""DECENTRALIZED""" is still centralized because all the servers run on a handful of providers and isps.

Would that be practical for individual home users?

I am a brainlet and I have no idea how the internet works BUT:

>create ICO
>raise funds to send satellites to space that n0 one contr0lz and give out internetz to anyone connecting to the wifiz

am I missing something? How can we go about "decentralizing" the internet (specially the heavy physical infrastructure part)?

We are discussing this right here: discord.gg/wCA5wN5

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Exactly. My point is that a new, decentralized Internet is possible, with individual nodes set up just like decentralized currencies instead of being routed through an ISP and registered through ICANN.

It would need a lot of work but it's not impossible.

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If Chancoin manages to make a decentralized imageboard and wants to integrate their coin with it, I'll buy plenty of it. I mean as long as it's not ERC20 which I don't think it is.

decentralchan pass by running a node?

That could work. Maybe my decentralized Internet will remain a pipe dream because nobody makes money off of it like Comcast does now.

What is substratum

that's a good point, how the will filecoin/ipfs prevent it from becoming a host for that kind of shit? isn't the whole point it's completely uncensorable? i wouldn't want to be a filecoin investor when that happens.

Pick a side here. Do you want to host the unfiltered will of the people or not? If you were on Veeky Forums before 2007 you'd think differently I'd bet.
If Comcast shuts off my Internet, can I still access the Substratum Network?

What if the text is unalterable but images can be removed? Only way that illegal porn could be censored while retaining free speech.

I'm kind of irritated that people think decentralization = cryptocurrency.

You can make a decentralized imageboard or decentralized Internet without any crypto.

That's what I assumed OP meant. So there are no investors. Nobody gets rich off it. It just works. That's why I think every company asking for people to buy their cryptocurrencies for this shit is pushing a cash grab on everyone.

There's no fucking point if you want to censor anything. Either make it decentralized completely or don't bother.

Nah, it will dump hard.

Cryptocurrency can provide the incentives for running a decentralized node on a network. That is, people running the node can earn some sort of cryptocurrency for doing so.

I'd argue being able to make an unalterable comment is worth the effort in preserving free speech.

If there was no censorship, it'd will be just a bunch of bots shilling the latest ponzi scheme.
>inb4 how is that any different than now

what you mean the bigger shithole this place was before we had captchas?

i'm just curious if ipfs even has the ability to self-regulate.

you can already with ifps, i just mentioned filecoin because its job is supposed to be incentivizing the "good" content, because without it you only end up with the content that can't be hosted normally.

No, there isn't a need to "provide incentive." It fucks everything up. No currencies, no cash grab or profit for those who make it or run a node.

Those who support the project will run nodes regardless.

If you fucking censor it, it isn't decentralized. Call it something else.

That's a consequence of decentralization.

I mean the "bigger shithole" this place was when people weren't so hateful about cp and actually believed in "lol we can be anonymous no rules" kind of thing, even if it was fake.

I think if you want to make a decentralized imageboard, then you can't censor anything. At all. You're going to end up with some real shit, but that's what decentralized is.

If your goal isn't to allow hosting content that can't be hosted normally, then what's your point.

Decentralization relies on the will of the people. Make a board for cp if you want and another one for other things and hope that people stick to their respective boards. There will be raids and all that but if you really believe in people posting freely it should work.

you have it backwards, the point is to incentivize pepople to use it normally, otherwise you get a disproportionate amount of content that turns away people from wanting to go near it, which ruins any of the long term benefits of decentralizing the web, which is necessary in the long term, and more important than some imageboard for pedophiles.

If you're just trying to make a "decentralized Veeky Forums" and aren't going to premine any of the coin for yourself.....why?

What the fuck is your point if that's what you intend to do with this?

I thought we were discussing a truly decentralized imageboard, which for ideological reasons would be great. Promoting free speech, eradicating all censorship from it and making it 100% anonymous, eliminating morons who insist it needs a cryptocurrency as "incentive for good content".

OMG,I was in that thread

>benefits of decentralizing the web, which is necessary in the long term
If your intention is to censor it, what are the benefits?

Let the people of the board decide what content gets attention and what content gets pushed to the side. You can guide the will of the people by labeling your boards and writing "rules" for them that say "don't post child porn," etc.

ZeroChan, 0chan, on zeronet already exists

you faggots.

i dont want to make a fucking crypto, i'm talking about decentralized hosting as a whole. it doesn't have to be money, you could just get hosting space on the network in return from hosting content people use, or whatever. the point is a pure decentralized system which is actually uncensorable just doesn't work when we already have perfectly good hosting for everyday content right now.

when have i ever said my intention is to censor the web? i feel like im just wasting my time talking to you now.

There are hundreds and hundreds of chans.

I used to use 3ch overchan shit to browse them all. not hundreds of boards, hundreds of chans.

None of them are decentralized. And the Internet is itself still centralized so that doesn't really matter yet.

its possible if there was a man sick with motivation to do such a project, like some movie villian that was mad with changing the future

Guy above said Elon Musk. It's possible.
When I look it up online, apparently its a pipe dream for academics and the idea was mentioned on some popular TV show by the "autistic hacker" character or something.