So parler is now offline.

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[–][deleted] 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

Amazon finally showed their cards. Half of the internet can go dark if someone decides.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Have you got plans and strategies for a new decentralization movement?

[–]RatherSmallPotato[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's not enough. There's gonna be a war. And the sad thing is that it needs to happen. Millions die now or millions die later by starvation from bad policies.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

It's all in place unless ISPs start censoring and banning VPNs. Search is a huge weakness though that bothers me and doesn't seem to get enough of the right attention.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Do you know much about creating VPNs?

IMO we should create our own. It need not be SaidIt exclusive.

IMO we need to start doing all the things for ourselves.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

yeah, running a VPN with linux is no sweat. you just need a $5/mo server somewhere. there's a strong argument that this defeats the purpose of a VPN, if you are the only ip using it. But it has its uses. A free for friends VPN would be cool and cheap.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

VPNs are all centralized?!?! What if servers could share VPN running? We get everyone and their friends to co-host, and obviously have a way to detect and eject problems. My idle laptop could help.

I have a bunch of other ideas too but I'd need to sober up. I can't type for shit.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

VPNs are all centralized?!?!

Yeah basically. If you're not mixing your traffic with others' traffic, then you're not really hiding your traffic. I'm kinda meh on the whole thing, I have a right to say Fuck the Feds, they can note me down now those motherfuckers.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I have yet to use a VPN, other than TOR years ago. I couldn't afford it if I wanted to. I also didn't want to slow down my limited connection. The more I found out the less it seems like a good idea. And the more I find out the more many seem like a scam/hustle/tracker. Still, every once in a while I reconsider it.

Almost seems like the VPN wheel needs to be reinvented, decentralized, and with distinctions (ie. size/type of files, so limited-bandwidth folks may participate too, within their limits).

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I have an old idea. Old school BBS/FIDONet updated for mobile devices. Why reinvent the wheel. The standards are here.

[–]RatherSmallPotato[S] 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

This is an insane precedent. See you in the gulag.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (13 children)

How long until they start targeting Saidit? The Communists are taking over.

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    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

    Communism is simply Capitalism in decay. Regardless, they all answer to Beijing, and hold secret aspirations for a far-left take-over.

    [–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

    Communism is extremist socialism and totalitarian governments over corporations over everyone.

    Fascism is extremist capitalism and totalitarian corporations over governments over everyone.

    They have been merging them for a long time.

    Russia and China are more capitalist than ever while the USA is more commie than ever.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    Socialism is between Capitalism and Communism, but is still a decaying form of Capitalism, regardless.

    Fascism isn't an economic ideology, and has been known to adopt various economic theories on both the left and right, most notably: National Socialism.

    [–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    All nations are a mix of socialism and capitalism, leaning different ways depending on the issue. Socialism is a process, like science, and can be used for good and/or evil. We are living in wicked days.

    Fascism is the merger of government and corporations, according to Mussolini. There are fasces on the money, on Lincoln's throne, and in the Capital. It's fundamentally American.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Yeah, Socialism and Capitalism exist on an the axis of Materialism, where the left is more socialist, and the right is more capitalist.

    Mussolini's vision of Fascism was a strictly corporatist one, however, it's unfair to assume that all Fascists would embrace such a system, or especially that all who embrace such a system are Fascist.

    The fasces in American symbolism have nothing to do with Fascism; fasces where used back in Ancient Rome — and even earlier than that — to symbolize law and order. This is why it was adopted by Fascists, but it's also why it was adopted by America, the difference is how the two view law and order.

    [–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    It's all about the collective tyranny over the minority. Whether that's a "justice" system, politics, tyranny, status quo, a mob, or a family with a black sheep.

    [–]EvilNick 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    They are communists, don't be fooled. They're using their capital to finance it to maintain peak positions.

    [–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Correction: They are Zionist globalist totalitarians, merging communism and capitalism - all over the world.

    [–]mathiasprime 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Nobody cares about Saidit

    [–]madcow-5 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    We'll probably be good for a while. Parler got hit because high level political figures were moving to it and telling people about it. So long as this community stays mixed politically as it grows, it should be okay.

    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Yeah

    [–]madcow-5 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

    Anyone who wanted a dystopian cyberpunk future, you've got it.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

    but without the cool aesthetic :(

    [–]madcow-5 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    The aesthetic is there, you just have to be in a city to see all the neon lights and stuff. My last city had a two block strip that looked straight out of Blade Runner.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Doh! Be careful what you wish for.

    [–]EvilNick 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Cancel your prime memberships! Parler will be back