I've chewed on this idea ever since someone brought it up on Holla Forums more than a year ago. He called it Secession from the Internet. The idea was to build an entirely new decentralized Internet from scratch, and the discussion turned to meshnets & pirateboxes and some more exotic solutions. Of course all of it was completely out of reach of the average person to take part in so it was really just a four-week long circle-jerk.
But I obsessed over it. I couldn't stop thinking about how to make it happen, and my OCD led me to the exact same conclusion that smarter fuckers than me have already come to:
"We don't have a technology problem; we have a social problem."
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This needs to be something that a broad range of people can participate in which appeals to their own interests. Not some grand scheme of decentralizing the web. It needs to build on itself in such a way that it naturally leads to a decentralized Internet. And since powers that be aren't going to like it, it's also going to mean breaking rules and going back to some old school ways of doing things. That's inevitable. Internet freedom will not be legal.
Boards like >>>/killcen/ and >>>/eternalarchive/ are on the same track as what I'm thinking about, but I have a broader scope in mind than just archiving stuff to prevent censorship. Instead, we copy EVERYTHING. Youtube channels, blogs, podcasts, image galleries, wikis, porn. Whatever YOU like on the Internet, scrape it all to your harddrive. Store it in an organized format that a webmaster could easily import into their own eepsite on i2p or something.
Next, join up with informal networks of people. People on the chans (allchans.org), people on IRC, and share. Or do the same thing as boards like /killcen/ and set up accounts on mediafire, but don't rely exclusively on those. The idea is to create informal networks of people, not to rely on specific technology. The content that you scrape and share is the raw material for building these networks.
If you have web design skills then start setting up onion sites, eepsites, zeronet sites, etc built from content that you've scraped from the Internet. I'm talking about raw, unapologetic piracy. We cannibalize the Internet. We treat it as a resource of free content for building darknet culture.
I've thought further ahead than this, about how this could slowly translate into mesh networks and decentralized infrastructure, about how to quickly start a crypto-economy, but I don't want to turn this into a huge wall of text.
I tried posting this on Holla Forums but it got pruned, so I'll wait to see if it survives moderation first.