I'd like to think my trailer park boys meme convinced you to do this.

briar only works if you have IRL friends that you can meet in person.

In the toolbox, on the sidebar, select "Delete Forum"

i have legitimately never heard of this service, it sounds like a honeypot.

There's also notabug. But I've only found gabara in those places. Maybe they changed user names. Or they're still waiting. Who knows.

Nobody came here yet? Where is the rest of the crew?

I checked voat and nobody is commenting there as well, the site will shut down tomorrow

I also posted on poal.co yet non of them responded

Is there another site they gathered in?

It has improved but there are still few small bugs here and there but I put that down to the fact I upgraded on top of cinnamon install instead of going fresh. Still worth the look.

Yep. And hopefully a revised version that's better for regular people pass.

Fair enough. ReCaptcha is the worst captcha service imo for the pure reason it's Googlefied.

thank fuck, this means no dmca felony bill and no internet porn ban either. trumps saved christmas or something.

If you're looking for an end-to-end encrypted chat app that also handles file transfers and doesn't rely on intermediate servers, you might want to look at I2PChat (formerly I2PMessenger).

It's had an interface overhaul recently and is straightforward to use. No signup required, no metadata to log, a settings folder that's easy to migrate, and cross-platform.

To compile, you'll need to have Qt 5.14 or later installed; the source code is available at: https://vituperative.github.io/i2pchat/

If you're on Windows, a pre-built CI binary is available from: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/wipedlifepotato/i2pchat/build/artifacts

The short answer is "you don't".

However, if you add a clearnet magnet link or infohash to I2PSnark, you may be surprised to find it downloads if enough BiglyBT or Azureus clients are sharing it over I2P and clearnet. The bigger the torrent swarm, the more chance there's an I2P-enabled client or 2 in there to download from.

Best account ever.

Hell yeah brother.

This was WWF at it's absolute peak. No way they would do this nowadays.

This is the classic 1998 Undertaker vs Mankind Hell in a Cell match that was memed into the copypasta:

"don't let this man distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table."

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-undertaker-threw-mankind-off-hell-in-a-cell

Some great additions to the defaults as many of these communities are fun to look at and read, and has a broad spectrum of interests for people who register to the community.

people are starting to realize the therapeutic advantages of psilocybin, thank god

Gotcha. Well, I can't blame him for turning the lights off it it's to protect the users. I know if that was the case he wouldn't be able to come out and say that is why, or at least, I don't think he'd be able to.

I'm not familiar enough with the history to really pass judgement either way. I just know a lot of people are going to miss a place they enjoyed for years. I always try to give the benefit of doubt to people, so hopefully it's for a good reason if it's not financially related. Or maybe it's for a horrible reason. We may never know.

I'm not sure if anything ever came of it, but I remember years back that there was some development effort put in to switch over to free software. Possibly related to https://preview.voat.co/ which is basically a test version.

There was a BTC address posted publicly and some goats over there did some digging providing conflicting information. I don't know much about bitcoin so I never ventured out to research deeper into this.

But it's fair to say money wasn't the issue. What I found most credible is that the admin was in a position of either shutting down or compromising the place and went for the shut down. Of course, since the canary died ages ago, lots of goats think the place was compromised anyway. If you subscribe to that the most credible thing becomes that the site served it's use.

I'm not especially unhappy, since it got kinda stale over the years, anyway. All the goats that thought the place was compromised went away so the remaining folks dispersing around poal, notabug and other similar places will likely stir things up in those places and maybe make things interesting again. At least I hope so.

The great thing about Voat wasn't that people called OP a niggerfaggot, but that bullshit got caught regularly and that sources to data was provided. Basically, people over there weren't sheep, but goats.

I can't do it like I used to do it but I still look forward to that nightly blaze or that good weather day high when I'm running errands and have the sun shining.

I feel like this would all make sense if I ate a ton of peyote and meditated.

Please do it and report back.

BTC isn't exactly anonymous. If he's ever posted a BTC address publicly, you can then just sort of follow the transactions around even though you may never know the true owner of one address to another.

Does he mention what his operating costs were or what sort of server setup he was rocking? Voat is/was a lot larger than I imagined, I've seen numbers stating hundreds of thousands of users. I'd imagine scaling (especially with whatever BS Microsoft licensing requirements would be) would get quite costly, but well within his ability if that rumor was true.

What was the end game with Voat anyhow? I see where they had previously had an angel investor and some tech money coming in, which isn't bad in it's own, but usually outside funding and investments isn't done based on charity because the guy with the money supports your platform. They usually seek a return of some sort...

I feel like this would all make sense if I ate a ton of peyote and meditated.

Ohh, Weird History looks like it'll be a good one!