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by TeaDude 2246 days ago
Fair enough. I'm just spitballing stuff for potential future client software developers should someone ever go ahead with this idea.
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Same here. I wouldn't be surprised if there are already many projects aiming into that direction.

F.x.: https://prism-break.org/en/all/#mesh-networks, there's IRC, XMPP, ...

But those projects mostly seem to try to establish alternative internets / protocols mostly based on the conventional internet.

The active enforcement of low-bandwidth-use would in my opinion be the core concept. As soon as media can be transferred it's going down hill in many ways. I think usenet died this way. c/p, content sharing, viruses, spam, ... all that crap

I don't know what spitballing is but it sounds disgusting.
A common term used in software development for "throwing crap at the wall"

My instincts tell me it was coined in the 90's amid the disgusting/edgy phase after the long "dad jokes" phase of the years before. (Unix, byte, nybble ...the list continues)

> A common term used in software development for "throwing crap at the wall"

it's quite a common term outside of software development too.

Edit: googling the term, it seems to have been coined in as early as the 1930s: https://grammarist.com/idiom/spitballing/