It seems to me that what the darknet needs is John Carmack levels of optimization. Old web standards can't apply. Even things like custom fonts, images, and themes must be dropped. Only the bare essentials. Only what matters. As standard practice people should learn to render the videos and content they share to appropriate bitrates. How important was it to render that video at even 720p? Most content is perfectly serviceable at 360p.
While the speeds are clumsy now, they will improve in the future. It will never be comparable to clearnet, but clearnet is worthless now anyways, so why does it matter?
Most people didn't use the darknet because the only thing it was really good for was drugs and pedos, but things have changed. Now it's literally the only bastion for the truth. It's the only chance for the internet to live on as it was intended to. To empower the individual.
Like any garden it most be fostered and tended to in order for things to grow.
I do not believe that the darknet can not become the legitimate and viable solution to this modern problem. I believe that the tools and web browsers are simple enough for normies to use.
Kiwifarms was already being delisted from search engines, and yet it continued to grow through word of mouth only.
I believe that all of social media is fake. I think the numbers are made up, the followers are bots, the engagements are all lies.
Kiwifarms grew without any of those social media lies. It grew naturally, as god intended, through word of mouth. As things used to grow on the old internet.
The spirit of the old internet can still persist. Word of mouth can still allow this to grow. What is most of Kiwifarms content? Predominantly screenshots and text. At times relatively short and choice video clips.
The entire thing apparently was only roughly 7 terabytes?
You're really telling me that it has to die here, now?
I don't know man.
I don't know and will never know the full scope of what it took to maintain the farms to this point, nor to keep the onion functioning, or any offsite sacrifices Null has made. All I know is that despite the bandwidth limitations I'm still coming here because it's the only place that feels real, and in this bizarre fashion it is still able to exist, and in some fashion it is able to provide continued utility.
And I don't know, to me it feels like a dam shame to lose that utility. Like my knife or only tool just fell in the water.
Maybe I'm insane but to me this feels like the crossroad between either the end or a new beginning.
This is the first time I've actually felt like the darknet is providing me a real legitimate reason to use it, and I have to wonder if a whole lot of other people aren't starting to think that as well.
