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Not Neglecting the Techrights Web Site

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Summary: Even though we have spread further and wider in terms of protocols, Techrights remains mostly a Web (as in WWW) site and we are making gradual changes to the looks of the site in order to enhance clarity and make it look more modern (while maintaining full support for browsers older than this site)

THE growth of Gemini (over 10k page requests so far today; as of the timing of writing), the promotion of the bulletins and IPFS have in general made Techrights a lot more than a Web site. Instead of using blog posts' commenting section (or Web forums) we use IRC and some time in the future we plan to explore GNUnet again (depending on its state of readiness; the project stresses it "is still only suitable for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance"). As its official Web site states: "The conventional Internet is currently like a system of roads with deep potholes and highwaymen all over the place. Even if you still can use the roads (e.g. send emails, or browse websites) your vehicle might get hijacked, damaged, or long arms might reach into its back and steal your items (data) to use it against you and sell it to others - while you can't even notice the thievery nor accuse and hold the scroungers accountable. The Internet was not designed with security in mind: protecting against address forgery, routers learning metadata, or choosing trustworthy third parties is nontrivial and sometimes impossible."



Generally speaking, the Web goes in the wrong direction and the Internet as a whole has a number of issues. While the Internet is probably the best we have for the time being (unless we go back to radio or telegraph), we need to rethink its topology. We'll be exploring decentralised IRC, not just IPFS, possibly with the introduction of more distributed dissemination of large files (like PeerTube or LBRY). That's just part of our journey as we approach our 15th anniversary (about 80 days away).

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