/tech/ - Soyence and Technology

>>24497 (OP)
in the future, with the rise of mesh networking

i run my own irc server + bouncer and it's fantastic
i get people to join when i want to speak to them confidentially and it's great knowing for a fact that there are no 3rd parties listening in since i control the server
>how would i convince the close people around to use it? specifically for my school's faculty
you don't
not only because people hate change, but also because people perceive (You) snooping on their messages as a much more real threat than google/facebook/whoever doing the same thing
if i PM my friend something embarrassing on fb messenger, there's no risk of having a facebook employee use it to fuck with me since there are so many messages sent on there a day that the chances of a bored admin reading our messages out of all of them are astronomically low
meanwhile if we're using your service then we have a much higher chance of being spied on as you'd have little enough activity that it'd be feasible for you to read every single message sent by every single user
you also have much more incentive to spy on your users than a fb employee would, as you know your users personally which makes their messages much more interesting to you than they would be to a stranger on the other side of the world

>>24504
so the said decentralisation would work but only on receiving end?
makes me think that in order for all of us to not worry about our privacy, everyone would have to run their own instance of for example IRC. the goycattle won't move though

>>24509
pretty much
unless people are using the service to speak to you, the only thing switching to your service does is swap out bigtech for you as the third party that could potentially be listening in
something federated like XMPP where everyone can host their own instances without requiring others to use their instance too would solve this but that's too much hassle for most people

How will this even work?