You mean Lemmy?
You want to know how people can make Lemmy?
Because anything more independent would require running physical infrastructure to peoples houses…
Like, you might be able to “wifi mesh” something together in cities, but it’ll never cover everything and that’s still technically using the existing network. Like, there’s no “free uncharted territory” left, it’s all owned by telecoms.
It’s not an American thing it’s a human thing.
The more time spent angry the more active and larger the amygdala gets.
So now when in a situation the amygdala is calling the shoots, and it’s either calling for blood or for you to run.
It’s how we evolved, if we’re surrounded by anger, fear, and confrontation we switch over to a mode that can handle that.
The current problem is fearmongering and billionaire ran media that keeps telling everyone to panic, so they do.
People get in this state from the media, interact with others and it spreads. Society as we know it is incredibly recent on an evolutionary scale, so it is often shocking how fast we can slide back to people who are thinking on a short timeline where 20 years is “forever ago”.
That’s not even getting into wealth inequality and how resource scarceness while young can fuck someone up for life.
What do you mean?
Mesh networks work like torrenting kind of, people need to set up a node, and hopefully enough people set up big enough ones they overlap, then everyone can talk to each other.
There’s a couple that do simple stuff like texts or calls/radio. But building a full fledged internet would take a lot more bandwidth, especially because if you want to interact from two different ends you don’t go straight to the other side, your info has to travel between each node on each overlap.
So people in the middle would be constantly passing traffic which may limit their bandwidth.
You can definitely go down the rabbit hole and find out about what exists, but in the process you’ll find out why we can’t do what you want to.