When you think of peer to peer internet aka open internet aka lawless internet you almost immediately get a troll saying "what about the pedophiles using it to traffick their pornography and all their human trafficking exploits?"

But the immediate appropriate response: You mean like they do all over the world today? As an internationally government sponsored organization? And they just select customers that they screen for privacy?

The truth is: Those dumb enough to make this kind of content available on the open internet (I mean true open internet not this joke we're typically on) are taking a big risk (which is a good thing). Making real bodies do intimate things on video comes with a lot of inevitable unique markers and mistakes are unavoidable. Something, anything, that identifies a unique individual on a missing person's database, the customer's unique identity, some clue about the location. Think about what happens when the general public manages to piece together the location of said individuals sooner than any trusted authority does? And oh yes. The minute you have a video you can remote view it!

So while a true peer to peer internet will expose the world to its dark horrors, its affect will really mean nothing to your virgin eyes or the eyes of your family members. Censorship becomes a matter of internal screening programmed on your device, not some big guru in the sky that deems what's appropriate for you to see.

Do you really think X is letting you see everything? Do you really think Trump wants you to know the truth? If enough people start operating on true peer to peer, it becomes simply impossible to terminate and no one will control information transfer. The quest is not about finding the right person to lead. The quest is about getting civilization to a state where monastic leadership is simply impossible.

Sorry, darn I haven't, I checked a few times, and ran a search for keywords "elemi, goldforest" maybe if you know the date I'll search by date

I start to see a trend in how Web4.0 is treated in general.

In most places, it's referred to as the phase where the internet becomes more symbiotic with the human brain and the things around us. But in a few occasions it talks about how internet becomes decentralized. The funny thing is that internet was capable of being decentralized rather simplistically from the beginning. That was the original idea: Make data decentralized so that it can't be taken down.

It looks to me like there's a serious effort to downplay this idea, and focus on the idea that it's where we all become cyborgs. So depending on which one we fall for could dictate where society goes. If we focus on believing that it's all about humans being cyborgs, we're screwed. If we focus on its representation of decentralization (it was always supposed to be!) there may be hope.

Centralization vs. decentralization is the reason why there is war to begin with.

Think about it: Everything in nature works in a decentralized way. All the stars are connected, and there is no single one standing above the others. Even remote viewing and telepathy is P2P, and a technological internet should reflect that.

The idea of having one centralized power is in opposition to nature itself.

Indeed, the grand scheme is decentralized. God creates "mini-gods" who all make a universe in hope that they will one day reform with new realization but if it happens too artificially then new realizations are not gained because it wasn't the goal to reconverge everything, that's already been done, it's the process that matters.

Anyhow, topic's gotten very meta. My hope is people consider the implications of this 3fold product.

If enough people run a Nova node or another one of their nodes, you can potentially run a decentralized internet. You can buy one time for a little under a grand and you can collect a passive income with their native crypto.

What I don't understand yet is can you eventually run these nodes without an ISP? Even in theory?

https://threefold.io/