Do it [SchemeBBS]

Can we fucking wake up here sheeple? We need a SchemeBBS. We need to restore all of prog.db in it. This regex crap the admin does is no good right now for the job.

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Someone has to own the hardware

The users already have hardware to access the internet and have lots of storage for text.

and be responsible for what's posted on it.

Not with anonymity.

Someone, somewhere, has to have their name on a bill where money was exchanged to keep the network on and the data center employees paid and the domain name registered.

No domain name is needed. A few global ip addresses will be, but not all of them need to be global. There doesn't need to be a data center. Simply locate other users when they are online and share information with them. If you can't make a post because no one else is currently online, wait until you can connect and then send. For a small community like ours, a few people with external ips would need to leave their machine on for a good portion of the day, but for a large community like reddit the network would be huge.

And yes, when someone else is paying for the hardware that runs the service you are using, they are the boss, full stop.

Every user contributes to the up time of the community. They all share the cost and the responsibility. Everyone is equally the boss.

Even with many distributed models this is still the case, because things like trackers are still necessary.

bittorrent is not the best example of a distributed network. In later versions, trackers were done away with and hosted in bittorrent itself.

I'm not brainwashed, I'm realistic. Your hypothetical bohemian distributed BBS network doesn't exist for one, but even if/when it does, it will never see wide adoption (see twister, posted earlier in this thread), because people, normies if you will, don't care about any of this stuff enough to figure out how to run complicated/technical software just to ensure they aren't being ``censored''.

Twister is utter shit. But aside from that, ``normies'' are not using these because...oh wait...normies use bittorrent. And they use bittorrent to violate copyright, because violating copyright is illegal. A server that lets you download movies for free wont last long, but bittorrent is still around. Even after all this time, all they can do is jail the owner of a website that provides trackers (something that is already redundant now) and threaten a couple thousand teenagers with lawsuits. Meanwhile millions continue to violate copyright.

These people don't want to understand what is happening between typing in ``www.reddit.com'' and being blasted with sweet, sweet memes.

If the web that they used became controlled, they would seek something different. In chinese forums and social networks the gov pays people to post and steer conversations in favor of the state. Some people aren't satisfied with this and they take the risk of using a proxy to access facebook (what an improvement...)