I liked electrons and neutrons better anyways…

I wonder what other branch of mathematics they are going after next. My best guess would be topology…

Simple solution to all this crap:

MASTODON.

Open up a breading buisness. Turn the stale bread into breading and sell it at half the price of the competition.

a consumer bought mesh based network router

What specs would this fictional device likely have?

But sometimes whoever owns the infrastructure has you by the balls/ovaries and the only way to break free is to host everything yourself and own, run and maintain the infrastructure from a grassroots level.

Issues like net-neutrality stem from users not having control over the underlying systems.

I2P

beautiful! Can you help me understand this better? does this run atop the regular internet infrastructure?

What is I2P?

The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work.

stop wasting our time on these silly utopian fantasies

Well bad actors from all walks of life’s do nothing else all day but waste their time on scary dystopian nightmares.

How could such a mesh work in large city?