What are you going to do when the internet starts asking for ID for everything?

Probably spend a lot more time doing things that are better uses of my time anyway.

fake ids probably

Pornography would be a pretty good reason to get/have a fake Id.
If everyone is going to collect and unsafely store IDs it just becomes a rational precaution to get a burner one.

Stop using the parts that ask for ID except for ones that have a passing justification like government sites, banking, and utilities. I'm sure there will still be plenty of sites like the Fediverse that don't request ID.

I'll probably avoid unimportant sites if I'm not able to find alternatives. There's no way I'm providing that kind of info to any site asking.

Hopefully we can move to some kind of underground “dark net” type thing and make a 90s / 2000s style internet with forums and stuff. Actual information and not AI Slop.

Or just stop using the internet as much and be more productive.

We'll make our own Web. With blackjack and hookers.
- Yes, exactly! And anyone that doesn’t like it bite my shinny metal…
- I mean, we're all posting and conversing about this on Lemmy. Isn't that exactly what happened already?
Mesh networks bypassing the internet become a sort of pirate radio of the future?
- I read the other day that meshtastic doesn’t have the bandwidth to send much data. And all other data has to wait until it finishes sending the first thing.
  I think the better option is having a wifi with a server or NAS to serve content and other neighbors mesh with the WiFi and keep boosting it.
- This is actually a really interesting idea.
- And the government will be able to easily squash that by tracing the sources. It's gonna have to be more of an underground darknet that piggybacks off other signals like copper or electrical.

I'll make my own internet

With blackjack and hookers?

IDK. Honestly, I really don't know. I don't bend or break, I just put one foot in front of the other, so maybe I keep chasing the remaining communities deeper and deeper?

But at some point, I think I just become a monk. If I can no longer learn through technology, I'll be forced to only look inwards. I think I leave everything behind and just start walking... I've had the urge all my life, but the comfort always called me back eventually

I've been thinking along the same lines.
I've even been collecting books, just in case I have to sit out the next decade of Internet bullshit.
This could make me sound cultured, except in the current meta context I guess I'm realizing I ought to add some Playboy magazines to the shelf...

The Internet is a bunch of Autonomous Systems running open protocols like BGP. Packets have no passports.

I'm not sure, but I certainly don't want to have my id linked to everything.

We spent years being told don't use your real name on the internet etc

Now the government's want us to tie formal id to it

--Edit guns to the--

wait, guns?
- Yep that was a weird typo was meant to be a "the", no idea how i did that

tor and onion sites I suppose like a right wing lunatic drug addict pedophile

i agree with the first half, but what happened on the second half?
- Right now who do you think uses tor, primarily? 8chan pol, daily stormer, qanon, drug markets, and pedophile forums

I was fine before the internet, I'll be fine after

Even if this id thing doesn't become omnipresent, 90% of content is bots and the few humans left don't ever bother upvoting meaningfully anyway

It's best to just leave it