VPN IPs are well known and already blocked by many sites.
ISPs are few, heavily centralized and will comply with any regulation.
It's just a matter of time until countries demand blocking connections at the ISP level, on the basis of whatever the "current threat" is.
Are we preparing for that?
Depends really how they will block businesses which can be used as a route for regular users
Good point. There are likely workarounds but blocking IPs from the top 20 VPN providers will leave most of current VPN users vulnerable
Is there any way to prepare for that apart from something like meshtastic?
Everything ultimately connects via a few servers and cables.
Probably something like https://safing.io/spn/
But on nostr and micropayment-incentivized
Ooooo, this is interesting.
Well, we have Tor, which is battle-tested and almost usable. Scalable, at least.
I was going to mention Tor but I wonder how many exit nodes are also known. It's gotten much better after they implemented PoW
tor sucks on nostr because the major relays are using cloudflare
AFAIK Cloudflare is only anti-Tor in the default config. I understand it is trivial to turn off the Tor aversity in the Cloudflare account. But is an opt-out feature and most people don't bother. They will.
All Tor exit nodes are known and the real-time list can be downloaded by anyone at any time. (this is by design and is a great feature to protect exit node operators)
Didnt fully realize this. Thanks for the info.
Things are likely gonna get worse.
yeah man , is just matter of time …. the solution is to create our own decentralised net and get out of .com … we should just leave this shitshow at once
I observed network fragmentation during China-week in 2023, and anticipate it to happen again.
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