Reminds me of the 2600 back covers. There is something of the phreaking / phracking culture to this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210312063737/https://www.2600....

There's a similar project in Philadelphia: https://philtel.org/

I think this is a nice idea, a way to serve the underserved. However, from the front page:

> We do not judge the motivations of our users

In an age of doxing, swatting, and cold-calling telemarketers, I hope that some tracability (at least by the network operators themselves) is in there.

What is really needed everywhere is personal responsibility and accountability, but, seeing as how that's in short supply on Earth, we need dogs to guard our chicken coops.

Good luck with your good intentions; I hope it is a help to society, and not another brick in the wall of technological misery.

Nothing is free. In this case, the Support page seems to imply that this runs free thanks to donations and volunteering, and some time-bounded (and finished) contributions from public actors.

I would kindly ask anyone stating that they provide a service for free, to explain exactly how they are planning on financing it, and for which amount of time, so that users can decide how much trust to place on its survival, and how risky it is to build a dependence on it.