So, if you would, help me out with the ‘why’ part

It eliminates a single point of failure, can be used to bypass censorship, and allow for community support/engagement in a way that is harder to track and suppress (in that there’s no ‘central’ hub and you have to go after nodes individually. From an opsec point of view, you’re still broadcasting a signal that someone in range can pick up). Obviously it requires many devices to make a good mesh work, but short of DOSing every channel or just blowing out the signal space, it’s gonna be hard to take that down.

I see it as something like tor or i2p, not something for general use at the moment, but definitely has good uses.

I would make the argument for the air fryer, rice cooker and pressure cooker/insta pot. I use each one at least once a week for so many things. Like, I just came across a vegetarian burrito recipe that I meal prep with the insta and rice cooker, and when I defrost in the microwave and then reheat in the air fryer 👩‍🍳💋

There’s not really too much of a debate, just a lack of deep understanding of how the infrastructure works under the hood.

The other person (rightly) doesn’t want to share their local network (what’s behind your wifi router) with their neighbors. My only point was that, much like current ISPs, you don’t share any networking with your neighbors. The only thing remotely close to ‘shared’ would be the individual uplinks (your ISP connection) from each residence to the (shared) networking gear of the ISP.

A local ISP and a Telco aren’t (shouldn’t) going to be handling the base networking layer any differently. They’ll all have individual connections between them and subscribers, and the only way that I could get into your network is to setup services and configure either side to talk to the service on the other.

To actually ELI5 (which I am exceptionally bad at with actual 5yos), Alice and Bob both get their toys from Charles (Telco ISP) who charges a lot of money, and doesn’t treat them well when they try to use the toys they got. Dan comes a long and works with Ed and Fred to set up a local toy store and try to treat customers better. Bob (irmadlad) is concerned that the new local toy store means he’ll have to share the toys he bought with Alice, not realizing neither store makes you share your toys.

Skill issue. Put yourself out there, go to events for meeting people, and touch grass.

YOUR experience is that people are struggling with conversation, but it could just be you or the people you talk to. ‘Everyone’ does not share the same experiences as you, and plenty of us are able to talk to people without issue.

Social anxiety can be a bitch, but even my introverted, social anxiety ridden ass is able to do it. Find a group for something that interests you and don’t be too big of a terminally online weirdo and you should be good.

First time seeing a shit post on the shitpost community?

I really want to put graphene on my 8, but I can’t risk not having my banking apps…

Hands and arms get tired, so it’s always good to have options.

Then again, at that point you should just be poly and not lie to your partners. Much easier that way.

I know, we’re aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall shocked

why would I want to hook my uplink to someone else’s network

Well, the biggest reason I could think of is that you want to access the Internet.

Your local network is only as good as the services you run, and most people don’t self host. If you choose not to hook your uplink to your ISPs network, you’re not gonna be able to do all that much.

Oh I get how it would all work, I’m not into sharing my network.

See, I’m struggling to think that you do. You’re not sharing your network with anyone. You’re just hooking your uplink into someone else’s network, who will take as much (or more, given how fucky current ISPs are) care to keep you and your neighbors from talking to each other without your own config letting it happen.

There is a user here that mentioned he is in funding talks for a local, independent ISP. I’m not really sure I’m ready to be connected to my neighbors intimately. Good fences make good neighbors.

Why do you think an independent ISP would operate any differently at the networking level on a per-customer basis? This is basic network segmentation, and my home gear can do that pretty easily. Throw each customer on their own vlan that’s a /30 and they can’t do anything more than talk from their node to the central router.

Good firewalls make good digital neighbors, and an independent ISP isn’t going to survive long if Alice can access Bob’s home network over the ISP without having something specifically configured in Bob’s network to allow that.

Missed opportunity to talk about your “shortcuming”

Weird, all I can hear is ‘turdlickins’

Hearing that made me go back and listen to my chosen announcer from those days

https://youtu.be/6dWPPgHj8rM

Good times

Not even, this is just some relatively new corporate abuse masquerading as some common place thing.

Maybe your model was build different, I only have a seam on the underside of my balls, my dick only has a seam going around where I was mutilated as a child, nothing on the underside

“I don’t have shit on my shoes, but down in the sewer…”

I can’t ghost my dad/his family because he beat me to the punch and ghosted me >20 years ago

I know.

The upper chest and beginning of cleavage is my guess. The ‘nose’ looks like the space between breasts.