In the wake of the news of Fredrick Brennan's (8chan creator) passing, I was reminded that I too had some dream of creating an imageboard, but I never got around to it and I'm glad I did.
Basically, much like how 8chan was basically a fusion of Reddit and 4chan, my idea was a fusion of Twitter and 4chan, as in instead of boards, threads would be grouped via tags that anyone can create on the fly. The only rules would be to keep everything legal and all spam threads would be deleted. I never got around to it because of my limited knowledge of programming and servers at the time and I felt like my more progressive family members would disown me for creating such a site.
I'm glad I never created that site because I feel like most people who run community sites for niche and dissident audiences tend to regret it later in life and go down dark paths. Though, I'm not against such sites in principle, I just hope that if you create such a community that you are prepared for what you are getting into. At least Hot Wheels seemed to have enjoyed the final years of his life.
@caekislove Hashing seems like a terrible way to detect CP because all one needs to do in order to bypass it is to change one pixel value in a way that it isn't noticeable and then the resulting image would have a completely different hash.
But they don't publish how they do this, because as soon as it's published, it can be trivially worked around.
The whole thing is so dumb, I imagine the owner of the company that does it is probably in the Epstein files. So basically he's making hashes of the files that he himself is creating.
@cjd @caekislove I still think it's a bad idea because regardless of how it is hashed or subhashed, collisions are inevitable and at least one person has been falsely accused of possessing CP because he had a file that was in collision with one of the hashes.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/googles-scans-private-photos-led-false-accusations-child-abuse
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@monkyyy @caekislove @xianc78 @cjd Ukraine mostly iirc but idk about these days with the war there. Still Jews regardless.
@xianc78 @cjd @caekislove it wasn't about hashes, it was a result of them taking photos to send to a doctor and it automatically syncing to their google cloud. google's automatic system flagged it and it was decided that the photos were CP, even after the police said nothing was wrong.
cf. the shills posting their own hate speech to report it and the shill industrial complex amplifying the story even though the original post may have been zotted by management after 40 minutes.
it's not about doing your best its about power games, like all of life.
they don't really care about coomers and victims they just don't want people proving the state protects them.
someday you people will stop thinking the symptoms are the systems.
@icedquinn @caekislove @sun Yeah, literally every altchan that is still around either has no /pol/ equivalent or it's /pol/ is dead enough not to be on anyone's radar.
Boom, you've banned the #1 problem on the site while also not letting porn artists get fucked.
but that's another battle entirely
mastercard is on a quest to chastity belt the world. much of what they force patreon to ban isn't actually illegal.
symptoms != system
And I mean NSFW because you're not only going to need to deal with some edgelord with illegal images, but also unfunny kids posting Nikocado's Coinslot or Ambatukum or gore.
https://huggingface.co/Marqo/nsfw-image-detection-384 (22MB)
Probably these or a finetune of it or something similar. They run pretty light and can do classification pretty rapidly on CPU only and would fly through images on a GPU.
@PurpCat @caekislove At this point, I think it would be better for these anonymous communities to just be textboards. It dodges the CP problem (minus the links) and (at least for now) also dodges the age-verification problem.
@PurpCat @caekislove What is this? A BBS meetup?
@PurpCat @caekislove I envy those who grew up during that time. Must be nice to be able to do this without fear of being doxed or having your life ruined later.
I see it as, to the court of public opinion the dumbest thing you've ever done is going to be broadcast on repeat forever and some random guys from the peanut gallery will just bring it up over and over again.
@caekislove @PurpCat You could have a club that bans recording or even all electronic devices with cameras, but I don't know how well that would go.
@PurpCat @caekislove Yeah that too, especially given that the BBSes were limited to local area codes so such information wasn't easily searched and copied around.
By that I mean someone like Derek Smart probably isn't even shocking to the web anymore because there are thousands of people like him at least using Google Alerts on their own name to find people talking shit online.
