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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

Reply to comment by awdrifter in Ruqqus Shutting Down by awdrifter

It's simply Ruqqus censorship. Maybe I should've archived the site when they started doing it, but now I'm going to wait until they make Ruqqus read-only, so I can hopefully grab everything as JSON+WARC, maybe images too.

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Rambler wrote

Encourage them to come here.

The .win community obviously has a more sleek design, but they don't do much in terms of privacy from what I recall. Call me when they allow access through alternative networks and work properly without javascript or 3rd party elements embedded into their site.

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Rambler wrote (edited )

While reading about this earlier I was shocked to learn just how common Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp is for everyday communication between friends, family and relatives. In some parts of the world, the vast majority of communication is now done on these platforms, all under the same umbrella.

So while I hate Facebook, it's just bizzare to me how in some areas of the world it's used predominately for their chat apps / messenger for important communication.

Like, maybe get your grandma's phone number and call her or send your girlfriend a text message.

EDIT: And from a sysadmin perspective, it always makes you feel a bit better when things like this happen. If companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Playstation, etc can have widescale outages that impact millions of users/customers then it makes you feel a bit better when you goof up something relatively small that only impacts a handful of people.

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