xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

another old homebrew uncovered, and supposedly theres a new homebrew method in town so i need to remove haxchi

I hate Nintendo.
They have good games, and I seriously want to give them money... Fuck, they even found a way to make DLCs look great...

BUT: Why do they need to be so bitchy about it? I don't want to play these games on switch... I have my Deck and PC.

And No, these games are not 50 worth 50 fucking dollars. And what the fuck is Nintendo Switch Online individual membership? That shit should have died 15 fucking years ago.

bounce

Factcheck: There's no "smoking gun" (haha) that the UN itself is funding the chemtrails (not contrails), so there!

The constant-threats-to-defederate thing is going to kill this place, seriously.

Defederating an instance is an extreme measure and it should only be taken in extreme circumstances.

Finding out I might stop getting posts from people I explicitly follow because they happen to be on an instance being defederated by mine all because a bunch of admins I don't know got in a spat over a user I don't follow is just about the most annoying value proposition imaginable.

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/110317006852580015

It's a repeat of the Sandy Hook shooter where they are stonewalling the release of anything, except this time instead of the journalists suing the corrupt cops it's the firearm law people doing so because the government is trying to use it to push gun control under the guise of mental health (so they're trying to see if it really was such considering the circumstances). There's also no excuse this time aside from vague "it would be damaging" stuff while they stonewalled the release of the Sandy Hook stuff under the guise that there would be copycats (there weren't).
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nashville-shooting-police-group-sues-release-suspect-audrey-hales-manifesto
https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/nashville-officials-flip-flop-covenant-shooting-manifesto-despite-claim-documents-would-come-very-soon/

@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):