PST and NCD are glowie operations; looking at the dox of the head of the former, he was revealed as a former software engineer for the Canadian government along with his brother. I would imagine a similar situation as applies to the admins of NCD.
This is concerning. "It's all so tiresome."
We really need a more robust alternative to Fedi. I have enough financial resources to spin up instances on the scale of poast or FSE but I don't think I can do this anonymously very easily. Once I got doxxed then things would go south fast, of course.
The proper solution is "one node per account, every node decides who and what to block, the only person you can ban is yourself" but we aren't there yet.
In life, nothing is free. If something is free, then you are the product.
Websites are expensive and time consuming to build and maintain. The only anonymous form of website building is through crypto.
If a website takes cash, it means that the site admins have made a deal with the feds.
IMO if PST and NCD were run by non-faggots without griefer mobs and public blocks, these sites would be fine—sadly, good software is expensive...
>In life, nothing is free. If something is free, then you are the product.
Yes.
This is why we ultimately need much stronger cryptocurrency and secure anonymous payment rails. I'm afraid BTC and Monero aren't going to cut it long term from a technical perspective, but we have to make do with what we have for now.
The difficulty is that I think we need the decentralized social media infrastructure *first* before we can upgrade the cryptocurrency. Tricky.
@Charles_in_Charge @StarProphet @neofugue These are real concerns -- but the enemies are *not* gods, there are real holes in their ability to coordinate and launch technical attacks. They can outlaw things and stick in back doors, but my techbro friends Have Ways.
It's not as one-sided a battlefield as either the crypto fanatics or Feds think it is.
@neofugue @Charles_in_Charge @StarProphet
The danger with Monero is that the devs are known to not be careful enough. "Fluffypony" got arrested in the US because he had active warrants in SA. Being a public cryptocurrency developer (already unwise) in a country which will extradite you to a country who wants you in jail is *dumb*.
It makes me wonder what other mistakes are being made.
If you can communicate to them:
@Thusnelda @Kickingbadger7 @LostSpirit @lks @Charles_in_Charge @KekistaniWanderer @James_Dixon @petra @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @ACL9000 @JoshuaSlocum @Appalachian_Crusader @EvilSandmich
Can you tell my Poast frens here to start an alt, so they can follow me here on NAS?
@Countermeasures @Charles_in_Charge @StarProphet Monero is the only secure cryptocurrency in existence today. While I have not tried it yet, I would purchase KYC Bitcoin, convert it into Monero, and then reconvert it back into Bitcoin.