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Spain? check guifi.net ;)

People had LAN Partys playing video games “offline” in the 90s… Setting up a network is easy, the difficulty comes from scaling up to many nodes, and spreading through the geography (e.g. if you were to use antennas for WLAN, they would need a mostly unobstructed vision) which in urban areas gets tricky.

But those “topology” issues can be flattened, e.g. you can always have a raspberry pi (or any device) acting as server in the corner of a neighborhood. A virtual bulletin board, emails, etc. all could be self-hosted locally there and then people could go grab a coffee and consume the local news just like in the middle ages, but with a screen, digital assets and some healthy amount of trolling :P

That’s re-victimization. People do people stuff, like using social networks. Furthermore, the database probably goes as far as previous to being bought, enshittified and renamed by Musk. So… you’re not being fair.

AFAIK that was a telemetry issue that was fixed (but very poorly addressed.) last year. Then someone posted about it recently…

I am using it BECAUSE of the vertical bar. So, I wouldn’t know.

I have been using Sidebery in Firefox for ages now… and TreeStyleTabs before that. To me it’s natural to use the space in the side of the web, since I almost never scroll horizontally but instead need the vertical space…

Thankfully I have been switching to Zen Browser just earlier this week :) I am very happy with the UI and ‘firefox backend’ (I get addons from here, not the highly censored google chrome webstore.)