TheOneWithAReallyLongName on Nostr: No different from any other widespread network, unfortunately. The only public ...
No different from any other widespread network, unfortunately. The only public attempt to rival them has been mesh networks, but I've never heard of one getting very big. Even if you managed to cover a while city in a mesh network, how do you get a high bandwidth connection to another city with a rural gap in the middle? You'll get to the point where wireless solutions won't work, and you'll need a physical connection, but then who lays the wire? How do they get permission to lay it since they can't just buy a 3 foot by 100 mile stretch of land for the wire to sit in? Resolving all that in a capitalistic society inevitably leads back to corporate ownership of, at a minimum, crucial connections in the network.
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