Post #1229775
2026-04-10 20:23 UTC
@Andres4NY @KathyReid Incremental cellular deployment of something else is fine and is/has arguably already happened with stuff like WireGuard based VPN providers being popular. But they all depend on overlays. You still need to have a substrate to build on, even if you layer decentralized addressing/routing mechanisms on top.
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@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 2026-04-10 20:35
@bms48 @KathyReid This is getting way into the weeds for something that was initially an idle thought, but yes, you need the substrate. There's different types of substrate, though. Just because you're replacing something at the network layer doesn't mean you can't have a janky gateway connecting to the rest of the internet, for instances where you really need to get to Amazon or whatever. It also provides the option of dropping old cruft from protocols (at the risk of 2nd system effect).