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620 sats \ 1 comment \ @Scoresby 23 Jul mostly_harmless
Saw this link to the Promised Man (#1051747), and in reading it came across their manifesto (linked above).
the absolute hard minimum for joining the LAN requires 10 years of friendship with at least one member of the Bureau, with another 10 years of friendship planned.
Further,
We do not wish to, nor will we, rebuild the internet. We do not wish to, nor will we, scale this. We will never be friends with enough people, as hard as we may try. Participation hinges on us all having fun. As a result, membership will never be open, and we will never have enough connected LANs to deal with the technical and social problems that start to happen with scale. This is a feature, not a bug.
I wasn't ever a member of any special clubs. Didn't really belong to a tight friend group at any point in my life. So I'm not particularly sympathetic to the ideas in this manifesto.
Yet, I do really like the idea of using for our own the many tools of communication we have. The internet is incredible, yet the technology we've developed doesn't have to be used only that particular way. In short: you can set up a lan.
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 24 Jul
In December of 2021, three of us got together and connected our houses together in what we now call The Promised LAN. The idea is simple—fill the hole we feel is gone from our lives. Build our own always-on 24/7 nonstop LAN party. Build a space that is intrinsically social, even though we’re doing technical things. We can freely host insecure game servers or one-off side projects without worrying about what someone will do with it.
I've had a similar experience to this guy in some ways. I remember the weird intersection of hyper-social and hyper-tech. I never really thought about bringing it back; the default thing to drop into is to assume that all that stuff we did was in service of what we now have, in vastly improved form, instead of being for its own sake.
Sometimes, metaphorically, the barn-raising is for the act of shared work, and the fellowship and interdependence, not because you want a barn so bad. It was easy to miss that. It's still easy to miss.
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