Btw, I just found the part of the docs that explains how their cancel culture type views have influenced the protocol. You can publicly block someone, and that is announced to your peers. So for example, if a popular leftist scuttlebutt user publicly blocks someone saying it is because "he is a racist/sexist/homophobe/whatever", there would probably be peer pressure for others to publicly block the same person.

If someone is bothering you or saying things you don’t want to hear, you can block or ignore them from their profile page (in the Options button). This will hide their messages and comments from you. You can loudly block someone, or quietly ignore them. A block is public and everyone can see it. Blocking is a way to demonstrate community norms and alert your friends to someone they may also want to block. Sometimes it starts useful conversations. Ignoring quietly is a secret action that only you will know about. It hides the person from your view.

https://scuttlebutt.nz/docs/introduction/detailed-start/#stay-happy-and-safe

It could be pretty useful feature for the right as well though. If some user was posting child porn and a peer publicly blocked them for that reason, I would appreciate getting a heads up so I could block them as well. Same if leftists attempted a raid on right wing "pubs" and users. They could be blocked.

True, I was aware of the leftist leanings of the developers and much of the community.

Still, it appears that if conservatives and free speech supporters decided to connect to each other, there isn't much that the rest of the network could do. They could make sure they're not connected to us, so we would have less visibility from their part of the network, but they wouldn't be able to break up the existing connections between right wing users. One of the worst things about de-platforming for the right has been that people end up losing connections to each other when a platform gets taken down.

They are partially just relying on deterrence right now, as that PDF mentioned.

SSB has never advertised itself as a free-speech platform though it does have many of those qualities at a technical level. Additionally designers have Rebellious Data LLC & Emmi Bevensee ​| 15 purported that they pursue a range of aesthetic choices aimed at attracting or repelling certaintypes of users. For instance, clients and the official webpage often use pastel colors, on the homepage​ there is a cartoon about an inter-racial queer love story that explains how scuttlebutt works, and many clients have implemented content warnings. Interviews stated this was all intentional to turn-away hateful users.

All that said, privacy is generally more important for the right than the left because the left is allowed to get away with more. So a different project that is not so leftist and more focused on privacy may be a better choice for conservatives to migrate to.

From the pdf:

Those guided more by right-wing ideologies in the P2P space tend to focus more on things like crypto-currencies and extremely privacy focused free-speech tools, which are more ​likely​ to be abused by hate-groups whether that is the intention of the developers or not. There are powerful positive implications in both P2P privacy tools and crypto-currencies, however it is important to acknowledge this potential alongside their built-in affordances.Those focused more on social-justice influenced liberatory tech tend to focus more on P2P tech geared towards connecting people and try to build in more protections to protect abuse.

They uptalk: https://stealthisshow.com/s04e04/

They are plagued by nightmares of being adjacent to nazis: https://rebelliousdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/P2P-Hate-Report.pdf

They want a "community" instead of technology. And they don't want us.

Looks cool, I'll check it out.

I may be one of the few who isn't super giddy about decentralized P2P networks though. They certainly have their benefits, but I also like the idea that things I say/post can also be deleted and not around for as long as other people/servers/nodes/whatever have it.

Maybe I'm just unfamiliar how networks like these work and centralized networks certainly have many flaws as well, but at least I could, if I wanted, axe this server and my data and everyone else's would die with it minus any sort of 3rd party archiving done by individuals (Ex: archive.is / waybackmachine, etc)

EDIT: Ah, requires you to run an app or program to access it. Not a normal website, similar to Aether. I'll hold off for now, but welcome newcomers to the market and anything that weens people off of traditional social media like Facebook/Twitter.

This is the website for the project

https://scuttlebutt.nz/

Good policy!

That's the spirit! :) FYI the MuWire policy on ads is described in detail here https://muwire.com/ads.txt

I block ads.

Ramble won't have ads. It's not really setup to serve them anyhow.

Hey Rambler, what is your position on ads in general? Are we going to see ads on this site some day?

I meant the direct link, not just the logo of Surfshark itself.

It's in the image, but good point.

You forgot to mention the source is https://surfshark.com/global-ad-blocking

I thought Poland hated online advertising the most, but no, they're a fucking average compared to France. Oh well.

All this graph tells me is that that the French are too stupid to install it successfully in one go.

10 years ago or more a mac engineer ported MAME to a kodak digital camera and the games were playable. (pacman, etc)

Probably, but maybe it will just limit it to a few minutes per web site.

Also too many new "free web games" that mine Monero while you play the free game. Monero sent to the Russian hackers of course, not to the app game players.

Apple probably will avoid making Safari on iPhone have access to a very powerful webgpu though, else people start delivering great apps via browser rather than app store.

If it was a Nikon he could have gotten GTAV to play on it. /s

That's pretty neat though!

Well, there's [RAMBLE], which, as far as I know, doesn't ban you for using these words, but also 8chan.moe (.se clear net mirror, .cc clear net mirror, Tor v3 mirror, Tor2web mirror - warning: clear net mirrors use Clownflare, which is a privacy issue (clear net only)), Nanochan (Tor v3 only), anon.cafe (.org clear net mirror, .co clear net mirror, Tor v3 mirror), zzzchan (Tor v3 mirror - warning: clear net mirror uses Clownflare), and maybe some others.

Note that some boards might add rules preventing you from using "racist" words, but I checked 8chan.moe/v/, Nanochan/g/, anon.cafe/comfy/, zzzchan/x/, and it looks like there are no additional rules that ban those types of words.

And what othe platform is there where you can say "nigger" and not get banned?

I love how people always flock to centralized platforms, even though sooner or later it always ends the same.

And when you try to get them to use Matrix/XMPP/literally anything with federation, they back out for no sane reason.

Same. No email. They have an obligation to report breaches.

That link there gives a LOT of context! Gab is free in the sense of allowing people to post things but not private in the sense of having their acts together technically.

... I thought we had laws over US companies on being pawned like this.

They are supposed to notify people.

Hate to tell my liberal idealistic friends conducting such hate campaigns, but this ceaseless pursuit of politically in opposite to you doesn't end well. Two party system is an illusion. Theater. Two wings of the same lying bird.

You just are going to cause utter dis-abandonment of sites, web, etc. All of them.

I couldn't care any less because I view liberal pursuits as what already wrecked the technology almost 20 years ago. Not a silly-con valley firm at mass scale who isn't wonky liberal. Go abroad it they are headed up by control freaks with clearer stripes.

Only going to defund yourselves and send everyone into hidden and much more fortified private spaces. Your endless data collection and intelligence will die swiftly.

all you typed is 100% true.