Anon tries to save the internet in 2026
14h 36m ago by lemmy.world/u/h333d in lemmyshitpost
> be me
> ex-tech support wagie living in the frozen wastes of Canada
> watch news, see surveillance state literally killing people
> get radicalized.mkv
> decide to write a passionate call to arms for the self-hosted community
> "guys, it's not a hobby anymore, it's resistance infrastructure"
> type it out with proper grammar and formatting because I'm not a savage
> post to Lemmy, expect maybe 12 upvotes from fellow nerds
> wake up next day
> 1000+ score
> notifications.exe has crashed
> open comments to see the revolution beginning
> half the thread: "WE RIDE AT DAWN"
> other half: "OP IS A FED TRYING TO HONEYPOT US"
> apparently using bullet points and spellcheck makes you a CIA psyop in 2026
> if it's anyone's psyop it's MY psyop god damnit
> mfw my "evil honeypot" is literally just telling people to use end-to-end encryption that I can't access
> logic 100
> meanwhile, the "privacy absolutists" screech about purity
> I don't have time to argue about command lines vs GUIs
> just want to give normal people parallel tools that actually work for THEM
> realize this is my life now
> the revolution isn't guy fawkes masks and hacking mainframes
> the revolution is breaking down "infrastructure" into tools grandma can actually use
> is this resistance?
> refresh page
> guess I've got my work cut out for me
> maybe.jpeg
is this resistance?
It's doomsday prepping. It's the IT equivalent of keeping 17 guns in your cottage with your buckets of food.
Useful in some highly specific cases, pointless in most. But if you enjoy doing it, there's no harm.
Prepping is about surviving the collapse of the system.
Resistance Infrastructure is about replacing the functions of the system so it doesn't matter if it collapses or not.
replacing the functions of the system so it doesn't matter if it collapses or not.
That's what preppers do too. Providing their own food, water, shelter and security so that they're not reliant on the system. Hosting your media is really just stockpiling entertainment, like someone else might stockpile food.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, and it might even be useful in some events.
I guess I wanna be that guy for my friends and family! It's a fun past time for me haha
Nah, preppers don't grow their on food and do the community organizing required for security, they buy a months worth of food and 13 guns as a form of consumption. 2020 literally had those privileged fucks rioting to go to Applebee's and get professional haircuts.
The difference lies in the community aspect of it. Self hosted stuff can very eaaily be shared between people. Preppers usually Jeep their stuff to themselves instead of sharing in the community and helping each other out
Having communication tools that avoid big tech is resistance. It doesnt require doomsday to be useful. Tech companies are luring people into giving away too much data by reducing our available options. Creating alternatives is resistance to that movement.
Just recently i was looking to buy a second hand fridge and realised that most people around here advertise those in facebook pages. I even tried to recreate an account after years of not going there. But it asked me to scan my face... just to create a fucking account to view those fridge posts... Since i dont want that, im locked out of that market...
Yeah you can use Tor as an example of "Resistance" infrastructure, it only really exists because Western governments themselves need to use it and the asymmetry in how information can be shared in western countries vs the enemies of western countries makes the calculus more in favor to let it operate. iirc most Tor nodes are in 5 eyes countries. The government could just force everyone into closed source backdoored apps if they really wanted too.
Really the only way to have "Resistance" infrastructure is to have another state actor aligned with it. The enemy of our enemy is our friend after all.
There needs to be more FOSS that isn't geared towards nerds. I want to be able to recommend apps to people and it JustWorks™ without having them even know.
This is why I love the Signal Foundation
I've been saying that for years. So many fantastic FOSS applications are obviously made by engineers for engineers.
It's resistance, don't let 'em getcha down!
Signal?
Don't you dare edit this to fix the colorization. It's perfect.
don't get discouraged. what I'm about to say will likely provoke the ire of the community and may even get banned from it but nothing of value would be lost.
the selfhosted community here is a bunch of idiots who host as a hobby. they don't take privacy or hosting security seriously and simply regurgitate the same braindead bullshit tech influencers shit out.
just to bring some context to those claims, they have Plex vs jellyfin flamebates every week where the jellies circlejerk making fun of Plex. while the Plex admins point out logical facts only to be downvoted and silenced.
point is, I thought your post was an interesting concept. you should refine it by targeting specific stacks that strengthen security and privacy. furthermore, you could implement a comms like matrix or irc for people to join your efforts.
remember, resistance is an idea that achieves a goal. define your goal and idea to build upon.
good luck.
That is quite the one-sided representation of the Jellyfin vs Pkex debate. The issue with Plex is that it adds a single point of failure to self hosted streaming which doesn't really help for being independent