"It's as if the CEO is purposefully being as belligerent as possible to rile people up."
That *is* kind of a Reddit thing. We should be surprised that the CEO does it too?
@Obdurodon Why I just want the whole hellsite to burn.
@dalias @Obdurodon It's not as if that's not repeatable behavior literally anywhere else.
@lispi314 @Obdurodon What I mean is that there's an obvious need (from how many people use it) for something functionally like Reddit, but that Reddit fills the functional need precludes displacement and lets an utterly toxic culture thrive. Yes that's repeatable, but I think much less likely in a federated scheme.
@dalias @Obdurodon I honestly don't get how #Reddit caught on when it's just a crummier ripoff of #Usenet.
Then like any big tech site that wasn't like the other guys, they became like the other guys and kicked the ladder down. Reddit's powermod problem made the site worse than the competition as well.
@PurpCat @dalias @Obdurodon @jeff I'm inclined to say that's a good thing, not requiring emails.
Not necessarily because it is per se... but because acquiring an email without having to dox yourself has gotten stupidly annoying these days.
At least Protonmail lets you make an email without doxing yourself.
@PurpCat @dalias @Obdurodon @jeff It did until very recently, but now trying to make one from #Tor has gotten inordinately difficult and presents a bootstrapping problem due to them trying asking for an existing email and blocking everything temporary mail service they know of.
@lispi314 @PurpCat @dalias @Obdurodon @jeff ProtonMail sounds too much like a honeypot at this point. It's also the most popular email service that at least claims to respect your privacy, so of course glowies are going to get their hands on it one way or the other.
I would recommend either Posteo (they accept cash via mail) or cock.li (if you can get an invite). You can also host one yourself if you have the knowledge and the major email companies haven't blacklisted your IP range.
@jeff @xianc78 @dalias @Obdurodon @PurpCat Fully peer-to-peer/self-hosted approach on something like I2P can be, as there are no unencrypted hops at any point in-between the source & destination.
@xianc78 @PurpCat @dalias @Obdurodon @jeff Main issue with self-hosting is that it also has very high risks of self-doxing.
As for honeypots, it doesn't really matter, I don't trust email to remain confidential overall (much of it I use solely for registrations or posting to public mailing lists anyway), I just want different identities to remain compartmentalized.