xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@xianc78 @PhenomX6 @beardalaxy @nekofag @crunklord420 there's a few others around here I think.

If we talked more regularly about our progress and problems, we'd probably have a decent gamedev community even if we all have wildly different focuses

IMO, the trick would be to be "leaner". What I mean by that is, smaller websites run by different people focusing on different parts of the web, and also not being as high profile as KF was.

For example lolcow.farm and this now dead site called PrettyUglyLittleLiar have a different focus: namely they're for women and by women talking about people online that piss them off (namely troons, Onision, fatasses/mukbang channels, etc.). They don't have nearly as much trouble being hosted because they focus on mocking a few groups online and are much lower profile.

It's the same problem IA is facing now IMO, they tried to be too much in one site and it's backfiring. I remember another archivist who ran his own archival site said it best, IA's method of archival was shoot first ask questions last (like when someone DMCAs) and that's what led to the publisher lawsuit. It's too big to easily self host as well.

ED has also lived on for years because it's much easier to rehost or mirror a wiki than it is a forum.

@marlin @alex @parker

So KF/Josh released a statement (the attachment) after their latest outage and it's very telling and I'll go into why.

The public statement essentially says that "Alt-Tech" needs to create an alliance against censorship and intimidation, and for a good reason. KF is now essentially in an 8chan situation, but with a few differences.

The whole reason KF has had issues staying up when everyone else online has moved the fuck on is because of a certain ex-Google employee with a "consent accident" named Liz that everyone has nicknamed "dong gone", who now works at a tech startup. Said employee has been trying really hard to scrub his antics off the internet, including harassing KF with a @google.com email address on behalf of someone else, the "consent accident", and a HackerNews comment alleging he was close to open pedos.

In a way, it's very similar to 8chan and Fred's crusade to eradicate imageboards from the internet (complete with sanitizing aspects the past) but there's a few key differences; but the important one is Fred was ex-8chan and did it out of petty revenge (and cozying up with generic woke furries), Liz kept on poking the bear. Many of the same tactics are at play, from media hit pieces to harassing the right people.

Anyhow, anywhere KF goes Liz will harass the shit out of the people behind the site, from "girl talk" early in the morning to going after family members. When that fails, he'll use the Sleeping Giants/similar activist trick of making companies move hosts to pressure them into dropping KF.

So what Josh calls for is an alliance of Alt-Tech companies to find a datacenter that supports them and lets them host. Aside from the fact that this can very well be a single point of failure or asking to get hacked by some skid wanting to make a name for himself in the left (this is exactly why Epik was targeted and why some have said we shouldn't centralize on using only BuyVM), there's one other problem: KF literally doesn't have many allies.

When your site goes around pissing off everyone in groups on the internet that might give a shit about your issues or support you, they're not going to care. They're going to want your site to go down too and they won't care because they'll think you deserved it. A lot of the reasons why tech libertarians were willing to host fringe Neo Nazi websites back in the day is because they weren't personally going after them.

Which is the #1 takeaway from the KF thing. You want to have allies online, not enemies, and you want to be as drama free as possible. Drama is what hurt attempts at bunker imageboards (let alone the CP spam/fedposting that plagues some altboards), and it will hurt attempts at getting friends because they will remember what you did to them last year.

@mae reminder (per @glitch):

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Update:
Sorry I haven't been very active here lately, I've been mostly working on irl stuff. There's some things I want to post for catchup, like the robot girl art. I'm currently working on revising my Vtuber horror comic into a better one-shot comic instead of a series, as well as starting a potential writing project.
(Some other contributors are the instance relocation, baest going down a bunch of times, and me deliberating over stuff related to the future).

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