Concerned Tech Question (Net Neutrality Death)
When they inevitably take away the internet from us, will we have any recourse for Mastodon? I presume it'll eventually wind up off limits becuase basically it's not Twitter.
I've heard VPNs aren't really an opiton (becuase obviously your ISP doesn't have to allow you to connect to VPNs).
It is basically meshnet or bust?
Concerned Tech Question (Net Neutrality Death)
@mmsword I guess I'm more concerned with if an ISP took a whitelist approach, vs. A blacklist one?
Like, anything that's "off brand" gets blocked or severely throttled?
Concerned Tech Question (Net Neutrality Death)
@Phorm @mmsword @anthracite That said you're more likely to see high bandwidth sites get shaken down for cash, etc. look at what they did pre NN for the guide: screwing with Netflix, BitTorrent and VOIP.
Concerned Tech Question (Net Neutrality Death)
@mmsword @Doephin @Phorm @anthracite At the risk of playing Cheerful Charlie and ignoring the real short-term pain, projects like GoTenna, Byzantium Linux, and Secure Scuttlebutt suggest we're not that far from converging on at least some solutions. It will still suck, and throughput will be hurt while density grows to replace backbones, but the gaps are solvable.
Net Neutrality Death: Potential Consequences
@mmsword @Doephin @Phorm @anthracite This. All the video streaming and large download (Steam, Origin, Nintendo Store, PSN, etc) sites become premium services (possibly with bandwidth caps specific to those sites). Private VPNs could still get you around those limitations; They'll block them as they find them, of course.
I suspect the major ISPS will quickly move to kill all P2P traffic. It'd save them tons in legal fees, among others.
