Did you miss the part that said “I’ll need a research team and 5 years?” The XKCD character did it! SUCCESS!

Yeah, I agree. I wouldn’t say it’s impossible, but it would be a very steep uphill battle. What we have now works great and we shockingly got the rest of the world to agree on it. The current OSI model provides a lovely blank canvas for all sorts of communication. Can it be improved? What system can’t? But from the days of ARPAnet to now was a long journey and this new Internet would have to start at the beginning and come into being like the Internet we all use today. I’m not interested in using dial-up again or waiting years to get “new” broadband. Too much investment is needed for such little reward.

Also, I feel like the author of this idea needs to brush up in their Internet history because it can’t be called Internet v2 for the reason you said.

Man this warms my heart ;‿;

Neanderthals originally came from Africa too, they didn’t spontaneously generate in Europe. There’s no pure blooded people, we are products of the places our ancestors lived based upon evolutionary and social pressures.

I wouldn’t say someone from India is Asian… their tectonic plate came out of nowhere and crashed into the Eurasian plate!

Maybe they mean “red zit?” Sometimes I get those.

Wait… FB/Meta is going to create instances? Somehow I missed this news and I’ll be trying to look this up after by post.

Anyway, yes they should not be allowed. They have a vested interest to destroy the Fediverse. How would they do this? Well, Microsoft has pioneered this strategy known as Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish. It’s much harder to apply these things to opensource, but we’ve all seen how much Microsoft has been Embracing Linux in the past 6-7 years.

Could have been worse: “I’m turning 18 this year. My mom is gen-Z.”

We have a few years before we see that post.

I wish you the best in your future endeavors.