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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to comment by xaen in How are YOU accessing the website? (clearnet, I2P site, Tor site, yggdrasil?) by Rambler

I'm glad to see going to the clearnet on the tor browser shows the ".onion available" button.

Glad to hear it. It's a pretty neat feature where you can insert the onion service location in the header.

Nifty little feature for anyone hosting a site that is available on both the clearnet and TOR: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/onion-location/

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Rambler wrote

Reply to Feature Request by GnomeChumpsky

Well what I like about the voting system is it's democratic in theory (though there isn't anything stopping you from creating dozens of accounts, realistically) and because it's a decent gauge of what content belongs and doesn't like someone else pointed out.

I'm more likely to look at a link or read something that has hundreds of upvotes on reddit, for example, than I would if it only had 3. And that's a psychological thing that I'm sure sites like reddit are gaming, because it tricks you into thinking, "Wow, this must be good". I guess on our end, you'll just have to trust that we won't game it.

One of the features I love most about our voting system is it's reminiscent of the earlier days of reddit where you see both the upvote and down vote totals. This feature has been removed from reddit since probably 2010-2012 or so. I know Ruqqus has this feature in place and I think Voat may as well. I always thought it was good for perspective of what the actual community using the website though, and that removing them was a step in the wrong direction.

Anyway, do you know why I've called this place RAMBLE yet?

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xaen wrote

Reply to comment by notaspook in Feature Request by GnomeChumpsky

IMO straight voting systems are great until botnets start doing there thing and giving one person the votes of hundreds of users. Hopefully they have something to counteract those types ....

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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to comment by notaspook in More than a month after the election, YouTube decides to crack down on misinformation on results by Rambler

Are there any decent alternatives to YouTube? I think the only reason most people use it is because that is where the content is.

I've had some luck with BitChute, namely when I wanted to find some old Million Dollar Extreme episodes that had been scrubbed from YouTube.

Nowadays, it's not a bad idea to just save videos from YouTube directly ( https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl ) because people have entire playlists of removed content. I think it's hilarious (I mean, "not really") that YouTube removes so much content but not the link to it from people's subscriptions/playlists so they just have a bunch of gray boxes where thumbnails used to be.

One thing I'd LOVE to see is a quality peer to peer streaming network. Something where you can filter out the junk you DONT want to see and stream with no interuption the stuff you DO want to see. Items can't be removed once uploaded, perhaps tagged for end-user filtering so they don't have to see things they don't want to or can opt out of unknowingly hosting bits of that content.

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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to comment by Styromaniac in What software choices do you recommend for your 'average' computer / internet user to help maintain their privacy? by Rambler

I love ZeroNet.

The passwordless feature is neat but I have more than one device and I've not used ZeroNet enough to know how (or if possible) to sync the data between, say, a laptop and a desktop if I want the same ID. I'm sure it's just a stored key file or something, just haven't looked into it.

I'm not sure how to initiate ZeroNet on anything other than a Linux machine, and I can't see someone like most my relatives or friends doing that. Probably a desktop shortcut or app on Windows, I'd imagine?

I'm thinking of ways that just your normal person can experience the internet in a way that isn't too off putting to them, as an end user, but also in a way that values their privacy.

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