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Maybe just get over caring about the "main" internet, and leave it to be the ad ridden, surveillance clusterf*, old and rusty one?

Or you can use ham radio.

Encryption is outlawed on public radio bands.

He says, posting on a website he visits daily on the "main" internet...

I had a lot more insightful discussion on now-defunct .onion forums and IRC channels than I ever had on hacker news.

Much more interesting links, as well.

> now-defunct

To be fair, that's kind of his point. The relative advantage of the Internet in this case is already having critical mass.

Arguably, achieving critical mass is one of the failure modes for forums. :)