🍱 Sean Todd ☕ @GigaByte4711@whitespashe.uk

@Cryoclaire
It might be worth using epoxy, as it may hold a bit better.

@abby reaction!

@lain @cjd
Yup!

@archadia
Trying to achieve something like this:

http://www.martley.org.uk/?page_id=2825

Today the wife and I went to the zoo. It was warm as hell, but the animals were out!

@vease well, not so much singledom, more financially single.

@cenobite_party_bus

Probably a co-op or nonprofit. The idea of an LLC was purely to add the business legitimacy for what would be classified as a regional ISP.

In a dream world, I'd volunteer and run it myself as a small business, but what I think is right may not be in the people's best interest, etc.

@mrjunge

As soon as you start peering directly with exchanges, you can bypass any snooping that local ISPs can carry out.

A community ISP can also come up with its own monitoring rules, choose how to anonymise their logs, and show transparency with their DNS/filtering policies. They can also publish how they protect the privacy of the customers using their services.

@ghost_bird

Fair. If it was a not-for-profit company set up for this reason, backed by community funding, do you think that would alleviate that sort of bureaucracy?

@brandon
Exactly. Running it as a not-for-profit means that the goal of the service is to provide the best internet service possible, not to make as much money as possible.

When you know that your provider's key metric is satisfaction, not sales, that's when you're doing it right.

You also get transparency in the financials and costs of the company.

@replikvlt something similar to this:

http://www.martley.org.uk/?page_id=2825

@elomatreb

@lroop

We have BT, and I'm sick of paying so much just for 57M down and 17M up.

Gigabit is quite expensive, but there are government initiatives that can pay up to £2500 toward the coat of getting fibre to a business, or a community (minimum 10 people served)

I was considering the cost of approaching my local council to put forward the idea of a village-based WISP that could provide up to 100Mb to each home.

@apLundell

I was considering the cost of approaching my local council to put forward the idea of a village-based WISP that could provide up to 100Mb to each home.

The idea of setting up a nonprofit for it might keep it out of the hands of people that like meetings, etc.

@moormaan
Another responder already uses one!

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@twylo/102792846082431294

@bcshort
Yes, if not better. Local techs and tech support for example.

@mepa06
Welcome to this mastodon node! Please feel free to write an introduction post and start talking to the fediverse!

@genderlessmenace666
My wife hates that version of Garfield.

I browse the sub every now and again, and occasionally see a non-garfield post. She likes dark artwork etc.

I then hit back and show her what subreddit it can be found on.

Her expression is glorious: