The Enshittified Internet and How We Can All Rewild the Internet!
The Internet was once a place where people could talk, share ideas and knowledge, express themselves with personal websites, build communities, and more. In recent years, however, we have seen that magic fade away, as the Internet of today is now a toxic cesspool of social media controlled by Big Tech, ads thrown everywhere, walled gardens, AI-generated slop, and content that locks us in by making us angry and depressed. This is not the Internet we need or should leave to the next generation of hackers! There are ways to take back and rewild the web! This talk is part informative, part educational, part historical, and pure hacker punk energy as the presenter explores how to do things like self-host your own servers; use tools to build new networks; operate decentralized services for communication, media sharing, and more; find old protocols and services old timers used to use that still exist (and helping the kids to use them, too!); and locate places and sites we can go to for the education and information we want! In all, this talk is about hacking the planet and taking our Internet… the people’s Internet… back from corporate corruption and control!
Saturday 1500 Gramercy Park Suite
