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As I was going through this link, l got curious about this “bird”.
It’s a routing daemon. Basically, you can run it on a PC in order to connect two networks so that hosts on network A can talk to hosts on network B. This of course requires said PC to be connected to both of these networks directly.
A host is basically anything with an IP. A phone, a PC, someone’s smart toaster, etc. If you find yourself between two networks, and connected to both, you’re most likely an ISP or infrastructure provider.
Think of the internet like a myriad of connected LAN parties. Routers connect them into the internet we know.
It still is. The problem is that the vast majority of the traffic on these LAN parties is facebookgoogletiktoketc traffic, because most of the LAN party attendees prefer that over doing stuff together.
Facebook doesn’t connect friends, it inhibits friendly activities.
It’s a routing daemon. Basically, you can run it on a PC in order to connect two networks so that hosts on network A can talk to hosts on network B. This of course requires said PC to be connected to both of these networks directly.
It supports the most common routing protocols.
It can be run on a PC/laptop, right ? Who are these hosts on network A and network B ??
A host is basically anything with an IP. A phone, a PC, someone’s smart toaster, etc. If you find yourself between two networks, and connected to both, you’re most likely an ISP or infrastructure provider.
Think of the internet like a myriad of connected LAN parties. Routers connect them into the internet we know.
Exactly this is the kind of internet l wish to see. Myriad of connected LAN parties instead of the big corps investing in billions !!
It still is. The problem is that the vast majority of the traffic on these LAN parties is facebookgoogletiktoketc traffic, because most of the LAN party attendees prefer that over doing stuff together.
Facebook doesn’t connect friends, it inhibits friendly activities.
So it doesn’t help the users of fediverse much ??
Not really, unless said users want to connect different physical networks together.
Can this be brought into a reality ??
That basically means building another internet at this point. Possible, but probably not worth the investment required.
It might be more feasible to use internet as foundational infrastructure for a huge VPN based on people volunteering resources.