Well IMHO it is more about if the infrastructure is centralized or decentralized. In a centralized infrastructure we are all at the whim of someone like Musk/Gates fill in the ______

A mesh network and federated services will not rely on one actor or server. And if you are in middle of no where and only a random guy from Texas is hosting, then maybe start your own node if he is unreliable.

yeah it is kinda like starting your own internet infrastructure.

For protest there are already bluetooth messenger for that:

https://briarproject.org

but yeah it is only for Android.

There has being quite bit research about how cells NOT only communicate biochemically, also via sounds and bio-photons. EMF is not that far of stretch either.

Any links / pointers on further reading? Would love to read more on this.

well for server is nix, but not sure about desktop.

I'd say using Nix is bordering on using scripting. Someone still has to write the method that extracts your Nix configuration into a file.

Many db has done that, 4d.com is one that comes to mind. It is kinda like socket.io + PostgreSQL + node/ruby/php (middleware layer) all in one. In db there is also concept of cursor, etc.

Seems like it is never about merit of technological design. As some CS professor put it, tech is more about fashion than tech now days. IMHO that is true, and often also comes down to the technological context surrounding the industry at the time, and now days if the code is open sourced/FOSS.

Wasn't there a crypto that use GPU to solve LLM computation as PoW. Wouldn't that be better approach?