Network Neutrality and Digital Inclusion

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This community is broadly about network neutrality. It’s important to note a major component of #netneutrality is access equality and thus #digitalInclusion.

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Tactic needed to counter all communities living on lemmy.world and get more of the threadiverse into the free world (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago by diyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/netneutrality@sopuli.xyz
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6251633

LemmyWorld is a terrible place for communities to exist. Rationale:

  • Lemmy World is centralized by disproportionately high user count
  • Lemmy World is centralized by #Cloudflare
  • Lemmy World is exclusive because Cloudflare is exclusive

It’s antithetical to the #decentralized #fediverse for one node to be positioned so centrally and revolting that it all happens on the network of a privacy-offender (CF). If #Lemmy World were to go down, a huge number of communities would go with it.

So what’s the solution?

Individual action protocol:

  1. Never post an original thread to #LemmyWorld. Find a free world non-Cloudflare decentralized instance to start new threads. Create a new community if needed.
  2. Wait for some engagement, ideally responses.
  3. Cross-post to the relevant Lemmy World community (if user poaching is needed).

This gets some exposure to the content while also tipping off readers of the LW community of alternative venues. LW readers are lazy pragmatists so they will naturally reply in the LW thread rather than the original thread. Hence step 2. If an LW user wants to interact with another responder they must do so on the more free venue. Step 3 can be omitted in situations where the free-world community is populated well enough. If /everything/ gets cross-posted to LW then there is no incentive for people to leave LW.

Better ideas? Would this work as a collective movement?

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Resource needed to evaluate inclusivity of websites (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/netneutrality@sopuli.xyz
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Before sharing a link I would like to determine whether the website excludes people from access, and who is excluded. I can test for myself whether the Tor community is excluded but what about:

  • VPNs
  • i2p
  • public libraries
  • #cgNAT-issued IP addresses (often from impoverished regions)
  • various geographical regions
  • particular browsers (e.g. lynx, w3m, non-chrome-based…)

for example? I cannot check all those means of access. If a website is implementing some form of digital exclusion, I would like to ensure that I am not helping the exclusive website gain visitors.

#askFedi #netneutrality