Jason is right, Saidit will never grow. At least in its current state. by bucetao6969 in SaidIt

[–]magnora7 36 insightful - 12 fun36 insightful - 11 fun37 insightful - 12 fun -  (0 children)

It seems your main complaint is that we don't advertise enough.

Then help us spread the word! You don't have to be an admin to do that.

Changing management isn't going to suddenly create more advertising buzz... if anything the opposite, because I've been promoting this site endlessly, for free, for years now. You won't get a better deal than that. This site operates on $102/mo, all of which goes to server costs, so any growth has to come from word of mouth, from users like you.

Also saidit grew a lot today, we had 1280 comments in the last 24 hours, which is a higher number than I've seen in a long while.

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 37 insightful - 5 fun37 insightful - 4 fun38 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Just FYI this setting is automated by cloudflare and means we're under attack big time. I also noticed another big forum I frequent is also in lock-down mode today as well, so it's probably internet-wide. I wonder if it's election bots/shills getting started for this upcoming election.

It is frustrating, but the alternative is that we get DDOS'd so hard the site goes down. So I know it sucks, but just be happy the site is up at all, because most websites in our position wouldn't be online anymore.

New British government data showing mRNA vaccinated dying 52% more than unvaccinated - aka 1.5x accelerated death rate - global public health disaster by magnora7 in news

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This data doesn't even include deaths that died within 14 days of getting the shot, as they weren't counted as "vaccinated" so the numbers are likely much worse!

And furthermore, the spike protein and mRNA was supposed to go away in a matter of weeks. Instead they're finding the mRNA is put in to DNA through an enzyme called reverse-transcriptase.

They said it would stay in the muscle cells near the injection area. But (especially without aspiration) it will get in to the blood. And because of the nanolipids it's coated in to get it inside of cells, it can also cross the blood-brain barrier.

So people are having mRNA go in to their heart cells, and brain cells, and begin making spike proteins.

And studies now show that in some percentage of people, the production of spike proteins NEVER ENDS.

So any health condition, such as amyloidosis, that can be caused by too many spike proteins coagulating in one area, will just get worse and worse. (Although I have read NAC, Nattokinase, and bromalin (aka pineapples) all help break these spike proteins down, so that might help if you are having weird heart or circulatory issues after getting the mRNA shots, but I am no doctor, I am just repeating what I have read so do you own research.

Furthermore it seems in some people the body adapts to the spike proteins, and begins to see them as part of the body so the immune system ignores them. Then upon infection of a new strain of covid, they get it REALLY BAD. This has to do with the igg4, and the disease is basically ADE (antibody-dependent enhancement) which people warned about from day 1. That's what the ferrets in the mRNA injection studies died from. ADE upon reinfection.

Almost as many people have died of the shots as have died of covid. That's what this video is saying. 150k died of the shots in the UK, and about 200k died of covid in the first year and a half of it in the UK. So the medicine has almost killed as many as the disease, and the death count overall is nearly doubled.

Yet even despite all this data, governments and corporations are STILL recommending this? It's truly unreal. The data is out. This is no longer a matter of question. This is a public health disaster, perhaps the worst in history. It's time to speak out.

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Saidit gets about a third of a million page load requests a month, and probably half of those are fraudulent (originating from malicious DDOS attacks). During a heavy attack day we might have 10x the page load requests of normal, during which probably 98% of the page requests are fraudulent. Cloudflare ensures (most of) those fraudulent connection attempts stop at cloudflare and don't hit our main server, which is how we're able to stay online.

We've been DDOS attacked multiple times daily for 5 years now. As a result we can never turn our DDOS protection off. So someone out there is setting aside resources on the regular to do this. For years.

I remember the day saidit opened to the public, before we had a registration captcha set up, someone used a script to register all the active usernames from the subreddits where I showed people saidit, and then they auto-registered thousands of usernames, and stole everyone's usernames who might've migrated. Just to frustrate migration and growth of this site. They did this literally hours after we opened the website, they had an automated script ready to go.

This place has been under nonstop attack since day 1, via every method possible from hardware attacks to social engineering, it has honestly surprised me how bad it's been over the last 5 years, I would've never guessed it was this bad. Whoever these groups are, they really don't want forums like saidit to exist.

Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down - The company blamed the protest for causing issues across its website and mobile apps. by neolib in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]magnora7 16 insightful - 3 fun16 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I think it's important but I also kind of agree. To me, it was obvious reddit was wrecked 5+ years ago, which is why I made saidit. It's kind of been blowing my mind how slowly reddit has collapsed, especially compared to digg which basically imploded overnight. Reddit did a good job containing the damage of public revolts compared to digg, despite all their other failures

Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down - The company blamed the protest for causing issues across its website and mobile apps. by neolib in MeanwhileOnReddit

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Minus the bots and shills, I really wonder how many human beings are active on that website every month. I bet it's 1/10th of their stated number, they're trying to drive up valuations and metrics with bot activity, and reddit has done this from day 1 when they made tons of fake accounts to make reddit look popular, until it actually was. Saidit never did that. So reddit has a long long history of fluffing itself up to make it look like more than it is.

But overall I agree with the strike. I just think that a strike shouldn't have a fixed ending date, or they'll just wait it out and go back to normal. Also this should've happened years ago, there was just never enough of a unifying event until this API fiasco.

A Huge Thank You! To whoever adjusted the Cloudflare settings. by [deleted] in SaidIt

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You're welcome. Thanks for being patient.

Why was sneako banned? he was the best poster on this gay website by andrewtate1 in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 13 insightful - 7 fun13 insightful - 6 fun14 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

Got caught doing blatant vote manipulation on multiple posts to try and take over the front page. Not allowed on saidit.

Reddit Blackout Welcome Thread by [deleted] in whatever

[–]magnora7 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No, sorry but I can't make that change. Unfortunately, what happens is people make subs with very questionable names and then upvote themselves and those subs to the front page daily for weeks, and begin posting actual legitimate news in those fringe subs like it's the main sub for the whole saidit website, and then over weeks and months new users see awful sub names on half the posts everyday and it absolutely drives people away.

It's a way to subvert the website, by making one fringe extremist sub take over the front page. And it's very hard to get rid of once it takes root. This has happened twice. So we have it this way for a reason. I wish we could have it defaulted to /all without this problem occurring. However I totally understand the desire for easier access to information.

That's why we added functionality so users can change their frontpage to 'all' by default in the 'preferences' button by your username. Guests without a username who want to view it can go to https://saidit.net/s/all as well. Thanks.

Curious about owners of Saidit how do they make any money from this website? by thomastheglassexpert in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

User donations pay for about half these days. A couple years ago user donations were covering 100%, maybe someday we could get back to that. Total costs are only $110/mo, thankfully we priced it low as possible with longevity in mind.

I just got this PM from reddit about their IPO, offering me shares early because I have been a reddit moderator by magnora7 in MeanwhileOnReddit

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So they're really doing the IPO thing finally... part of why we built saidit was in anticipation of reddit going IPO and banning/blocking tons of subreddits and users as a result, who may then migrate to saidit to enjoy actual free speech.

Looks like it's finally happening.

When you're at your lowest point, what (if anything) gives you hope? by [deleted] in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 12 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The fact everything is transitory and nothing lasts forever, including sadness and low points.

Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down - The company blamed the protest for causing issues across its website and mobile apps. by neolib in MeanwhileOnReddit

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As someone who does know what this looks like server-side, I can't understand why they would have an outage due to low traffic either. Unless they have some system that depends on bot activity that they're suddenly not getting or something like that, but it seems highly unlikely. My guess is they're probably panicking trying to compartmentalize and contain the damage from the strike, and making technical mistakes in the process, and blaming it on users

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah basically every forum is under attack, by lots of different groups, all the time. Especially now with AI commenting bots that can flood forums with nonsense. It's just how the internet is now, and I'm frustrated by it tbh. A far cry from the internet in 2003.

/u/cunninglingus shared this, this is basically the graph you wanted showing the number of attacks: https://radar.cloudflare.com/security-and-attacks

What if the whole "2 day blackout" was engineered to allow admins to test some new features with a protest being a convenient excuse? by neovulcan in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]magnora7 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also free advertising, literally every news media outlet is talking about reddit right now.

Yet so few are actually talking about reddit alternatives, and how to actually leave the reddit plantation.

ok i get it now, the cloudflaremageddon was intended to stave off the spampocalypse by iamonlyoneman in whatever

[–]magnora7 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

If this place didn't matter, you wouldn't spend so much time attacking it. You just keep proving the value of this place with your actions.

ok i get it now, the cloudflaremageddon was intended to stave off the spampocalypse by iamonlyoneman in whatever

[–]magnora7 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Bless you, may you grow out of this awful mindstate in to something peaceful. I believe in you.

ok i get it now, the cloudflaremageddon was intended to stave off the spampocalypse by iamonlyoneman in whatever

[–]magnora7 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Find some real meaning in life and use it well, instead of squandering your time on this Earth. You know deep down this is not how you really want to be acting.

Graph of total US credit card debt, notice the spike over the last few months? by magnora7 in finance

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People are borrowing against the most expensive form of debt they have, not a good sign. People are running out of money and getting desperate, it seems. Looks very similar to the lead up to the 2008-09 financial crisis

ok i get it now, the cloudflaremageddon was intended to stave off the spampocalypse by iamonlyoneman in whatever

[–]magnora7 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Imagine if you used your time to do something productive instead of what you're doing.

Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down - The company blamed the protest for causing issues across its website and mobile apps. by neolib in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]magnora7 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting point, makes a lot of sense, especially if they all keep attempting to access repeatedly after the first failed attempt

Why was sneako banned? he was the best poster on this gay website by andrewtate1 in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Vote manipulation is a bannable offense and he got caught doing it repeatedly

Magnora7, please add more content admins. by LarrySwinger2 in SaidIt

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Okay, I will do that, but it's going to be a couple weeks at least.

Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down - The company blamed the protest for causing issues across its website and mobile apps. by neolib in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Monthly is a good idea too. Also a strike should have a goal and if the goal is accomplished the strike should end. I assume the goal is "end the API request fees" but several 3rd party services have already been killed off, so I'm not sure what a win looks like at this point.

I think the only real win is migrating off of reddit, because reddit is obviously culturally broken at the root, and it's not like the CEO is magically going to start behaving properly because of this strike. We know where reddit stands, and it has been this way for a long time, so we should be acting on it by migrating to other platforms.

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. I mean literally every big government has an online hired presence, at this point. As do most big corporations.

For example, Monsanto (now Bayer) is known to have a hired shill pool that is running forums 24/7. They look for negative mentions of their company and products, and then their shill network works those threads to make Monsanto and their products look better. Including forum-sliding negative comments and posts.

Now multiply that across hundreds of companies and governments, with thousands of incentives. And basically you get a ton of noise, that is trying to drown out real discussion. And now with AI bots, this process is automated.

ok i get it now, the cloudflaremageddon was intended to stave off the spampocalypse by iamonlyoneman in whatever

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The ultimate root problem is that this is a terrible endless job that no one wants to do, I'm not sure there is a way to do this without burning out everyone who volunteers, and I find that upsetting.

Similar to how I put mccheetah as a mod of askreddit to remove spam, maybe I'll do a bunch of anti-spam appointments on a sub-by-sub basis. Maybe that'd be more stable long-term and divide up the work more evenly, and prevent burnout.

Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down - The company blamed the protest for causing issues across its website and mobile apps. by neolib in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed, although I'm not even sure what a decent compromise would honestly look like in practice. Just a complete walkback of everything they stated in the last few months? Even then, the problem still persists that made them try it in the first place, the motivations and people that caused it are not changed at all. Leaving reddit and planting roots on other forums is the only true way forward, imo. The huge power reddit has over the information flow of the current internet is insane, and that is the actual root problem underneath all the other problems. It's too centralized, and the power is being abused. Instead there needs to be many more forums that are all frequently used. Putting all our eggs in one basket was never a good idea.

I have to say the current strike method has succeeded in generating quite a bit of conversation though, which is good.

Clown flare is back by Jiminy in whatever

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The spam posts went from 100 an hour to 2 an hour after I turned on cloudflare, it very clearly had a positive effect.

No other sites do this because we don't have any money or employees or anything. Reddit has hundreds of full time paid staff. Most other forum websites of our size or larger also have paid staff. We run on $120/mo total so it's not going to run like a million dollar operation.

Magnora7, please add more content admins. by LarrySwinger2 in SaidIt

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Mods who abuse saidit mod rules will definitely still be removed. A well-known user was removed from his mod positions just a few months ago because he refused to reduce the number of subs he moderated to below 40 after dozens of polite requests.

WayOfTheBern using reddit shadow banning on saidit by Dragonerne in censorship

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ok thanks to everyone for bringing this to my attention, I will talk to the mods and try to understand exactly what their automoderator is doing before making any changes. If it's breaking saidit rules they can leave /all, or adjust it to be within saidit rules. I will have to evaluate the situation and talk with the mods which will take a few days.

Jacob Rothschild dies at 87 by magnora7 in news

[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

And don't forget this tidbit about the Epstein ring: "[former Epstein trafficking victim] Maria Farmer told Whitney Webb that Ghislaine Maxwell told her that the Rothschilds were the greatest protector of her family."

And Lynn Rothschild is Hillary Clinton's best friend and it's known they email each other regularly... And Bill rode Epstein's plane "Lolita Express" 11 times according to the flight logs.

And remember how Jacob's company, Genie Energy and Genel Energy, were the only 2 companies allowed to drill for oil in Syria via the Golan heights and the other via Iraq, as the Syrian war was happening?

Reading the wiki article about Nat, it seems he is a big property developer in Ukraine. He's going to make a ton of money rebuilding Ukraine, that's probably half the reason the war is happening.

Remember the quote from mother of the original 5 sons of Rothschild, Jacob's Great-great-grandmother: "If my sons didn't want there to be war, there would be none."

Saidit appreciation thread. by Zapped in whatever

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Cheers, love you guys and have enjoyed reading this thread. Thanks for being here. I appreciate you all.

My favorite thing about saidit is the free speech too. In a time of censorship, I'm glad we have info that can be hard or impossible to find on MSM.

Who took away chat?! by Gravi in whatever

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks, I'm looking in to it.

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

A few years ago we were hosted in Switzerland and our server company there actually forcefully dropped us as a client because the nonstop DDOSes were so bad it was impacting their entire server farm and eating up all their bandwidth. Like we were breaking their whole company.

Running a forum is surprisingly heavy-duty. Saidit is a fortress. And forums that aren't, get destroyed. It's a real problem for free speech

Jason is right, Saidit will never grow. At least in its current state. by bucetao6969 in SaidIt

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I understand your concern, but this is the reason why: https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/ay50/reddit_blackout_welcome_thread/12iw0

They instead often see something worse. We have it this way to help put our best foot forward.

I spent a total of 3 hours clicking CloudFlair check-boxes trying to be allowed to login to SaidIt today....like usual by SoCo in whatever

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No we can't change it, because turning down tor limitations results in tons of spam accounts and spam posts that make this site even more unusable.

Try having a fixed IP, or just turning off VPNs. VPNs are largely just honeypots anyway...

Santa must be real by zyxzevn in NoNewNormal

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's a great and hilarious example.

Another more serious example is the 125,000 people who worked on building the atomic bombs in a hidden town in Oak Ridge Tennessee, 99% of them without knowing what they were even building.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/manhattan-project-cities-exhibition/index.html

Compartmentalization is very powerful. Compartmentalization is also the basis of all intelligence agencies and secret societies.

ok i get it now, the cloudflaremageddon was intended to stave off the spampocalypse by iamonlyoneman in whatever

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I plan to appoint some new content admins. And yeah, this is why I was dragging my feet about changing the cloudflare because I knew it'd be spam city again. It really did keep the automated bots away

Jeffery Epsteins little black book redacted by WoodyWoodPecker in politics

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Someone reported this as spam to try and get it removed

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In the future, this means that if cloudflare were to suddenly disappear or go out of business one day, then basically every forum site including saidit would be exposed to endless DDOS and go down forever until a new cloudflare alternative arose and people switched over and got everything set up again. And there just isn't a good cloudflare alternative. They basically have a monopoly. It's a pretty weird and precarious situation. Not great for the future of free speech, or the internet in general. But no one has really made a viable cloudflare alternative, because it requires owning tons of bandwidth which costs a lot of money.

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for being patient.

I went looking for more information and was able to find this: https://www.securityweek.com/cloudflare-users-exposed-to-attacks-launched-from-within-cloudflare-researchers/

Looks like maybe the problem is this recent popularization of a new attack method of generating the DDOS attacks from within cloudflare's trusted network. So cloudflare is having to clamp down to counter this new type of attack, hence all the weird new little authentication stages and whatnot.

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It seems to be hitting all forums, and the only ones that can keep their heads above water without cloudflare these days are the forums that have their own massive server farms and nearly unlimited bandwidth like reddit

LOL! WotB is totally dominating Saidit! by [deleted] in WayOfTheBern

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Yeah I could add it to the front page, we'll see how things are going in a week or two.

There has been a few nice donations lately to support the site, and I'm very thankful to those who support saidit in this way!

I spent a total of 3 hours clicking CloudFlair check-boxes trying to be allowed to login to SaidIt today....like usual by SoCo in whatever

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting technical analysis, I will think about that some more, thank you. They are obviously somehow able to get replies despite the IP changing with literally every request and jumping beyond any normal IP bounds of any service like tor. I don't know exactly how it works. Honestly it's beyond anything I've ever seen, it may be some gov't tech, who knows. It's quite obviously not some dumb script kiddies, there's no question about that. They know what they are doing and have lots of software specifically for this. I have also seen they have software that does automated account registration, and automated comment and post deletion after a saidit account is banned. They're quite obviously well-prepared, and a lot of this was unleashed on day 1 of saidit's launch, wherein a group on reddit literally scanned /r/conspiracy for regularly-commenting usernames and then registered all those usernames on saidit in order to frustrate the migration and scare off new users. They registered something like 5,000 accounts in under a half-day, on saidit's opening day, before we turned on a more advanced captcha system.

Saidit basically had to become a cyber-fortress just to exist, I probably personally spent over 1000 hours just on saidit cybersecurity alone. I learned how to write Cloudflare API bash scripts that send self-autogenerated IP ban lists (which I also wrote a script for) from our server to the cloudflare server, without having to use the paid service, just to save money. D3rr and I used every trick we know to get saidit as secure as it is, and he's even better with this stuff than I am.

Basically my point is, this is a very high hurdle to jump over, and it's little wonder a lot of reddit alternatives implode quickly. You have to absolutely have your stuff together from day 1, or the site will be taken down from malicious attacks that are just free-floating around the internet. Most people can't do this, and most forums fail. Especially if the forum is related to anything controversial.

This itself is a way to stifle the free speech of the masses. You literally have to be a cybersecurity expert just to run a dang forum in 2023. And that's not even mentioning the actual code of just getting the thing running in the first place. And then the critical mass problem of attracting enough users. The hurdles are too high, so it's little wonder there are so few viable reddit alternatives. It's not a good state of affairs for the internet and culture in general. And with with the improving quality of automated AI posting and commenting on top of that, I worry about the future of anonymous text-based forums.

Clown flare is back by Jiminy in whatever

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Having 60% of posts and comments be nonsense AI spam ruins it way worse than having to check a box sometimes

Completely normal tribunal in the UK by jet199 in TumblrInAction

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Soon judges won't know what the meaning of "is" is, and everyone will be blinded by perpetual confusion, unable to think a single clear thought. Or that's what some social engineers seem to want to happen.

Lots of people see what what is going on, and aren't putting up with it.

Saidit appreciation thread. by Zapped in whatever

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Yes, always.

ok i get it now, the cloudflaremageddon was intended to stave off the spampocalypse by iamonlyoneman in whatever

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and it goes bad it's whatever.

I'm not so willing to just let the thing implode as you are, sorry.

Just signed up. I hope to settle in. by [deleted] in Introductions

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Can confirm the google store censored the saidit android app after a few years and about 5000 downloads, they just removed it one day without saying anything.

YouTube Paused My Comments by UncleWillard56 in censorship

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I'm shadowbanned from commenting on all of youtube also. It's probably extremely common yet no one talks about it. You think you're participating but no one ever sees it or votes, it disappears from view when you log out

Found saidit on reddit's WayoftheBern by PeasantGround in Introductions

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Welcome!

LOL! WotB is totally dominating Saidit! by [deleted] in WayOfTheBern

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It's just not one of the default subs because it historically hasn't been active enough to warrant being a main sub

Reddit Blackout Welcome Thread by [deleted] in whatever

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I agree, but it's also good to get those niche hobby subs started with some seed posts, so when a switchover happens it's not a cold-start

Graph of total US credit card debt, notice the spike over the last few months? by magnora7 in finance

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Yup, it's bad. They need to do it though to stop inflation. If they don't raise rates, inflation could get crazy and the price of food could double every month.... but they also created this inflation themselves through all the covid stimulus and so on. And the petrodollar dying is creating a lot of unwanted USD which is making each one worth less, aka inflation. So they're having to raise rates to compensate for the death of the petrodollar

Jacob Rothschild dies at 87 by magnora7 in news

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Turns out he has a twitter, interesting to read through: https://twitter.com/natrothschild1?lang=en

Imagine, if you will, being this fragile. Back to reddit you sensitive little one. by SMCAB in whatever

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That sub needs to be taken off of s/all if they ban anyone who disagrees with them. As per saidit rules.

done

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

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Either that or the ISPs trace the malicious packets back to their sources, which they basically won't do

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

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Nice find

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

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Given that the Internet infrastructure is being more and more bought by the usual monopolies (MS/Google/Amazon), Internet is becoming less distributed at its root, so less weak points but way more impactful.

Yes I agree in theory. But in practice, the internet backbones are already owned by a small handful of "Tier 1" Internet Network Service Providers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network#List_of_Tier_1_networks

L3 Technologies being the biggest, and has been for a long time. Every backbone cable is owned by these big companies, and they all have government connections and so on.

And it's known companies like AT&T basically have "black rooms" set up at the internet backbone connection points, where the three letter agencies have their own equipment set up to sniff and intercept traffic, and AT&T isn't allowed inside. Read about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Anyway, things are bad, but it's not futile. I wouldn't be running saidit if it was futile.

But in the short term, things will probably continue to consolidate (or remain consolidated) and it makes me honestly question the usefulness of the internet over the next few decades. It may eventually just turn in to TV, where you can't really interact with it in a serious way, it just pushes ideas at you all day. That seems to be the direction it's heading. And the AI bots now flooding every forum with garbage content isn't helping, so even websites that don't want to move in that direction are being forced to by malicious traffic.

But on the main point, I'm sure the current cloudflare thing will be fine over the next few weeks and months. Cloudflare seems competent and motivated. The long-term direction of the internet as a whole is concerning though, to say the least. Thanks for the chat. Have a good one!

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

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Yes, in the long term either cloudflare will improve, or an alternative to cloudflare will arise. But in the short-term there is a cat-and-mouse game going on which is impacting the whole internet.

The DDOSers are too powerful, and nothing is reigning them in. I think attacking public communication lines repeatedly should be a jailable offense. I mean if someone went and cut the internet fiber lines, they'd rightfully go to jail. So why is jamming them with made-up data packets 24/7 so no one else can use them any different?

Anyway, things will probably be back to normal in a day or two, I'd guess. Have a great Sunday!

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

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Between the DDOS and the cloudflare, we are between a rock and a hard place. Like most forums these days. And as the election approaches it will only get worse, as more botnets and shillgroups are paid to do their thing.

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

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That's a great question, and I wish I had a great answer. Unfortunately as a user I don't think there's much you can do other than to be patient with the cloudflare stuff, and keep an eye out for bad actors. And help others with these things.

The problem is with the fraudulent traffic, and I don't know how an average user could help that. Push for legislation to prosecute DDOSers? Run a new forum website using the saidit open source code? That's all I can think of. If anyone has other ideas, I'm all ears

Jason is right, Saidit will never grow. At least in its current state. by bucetao6969 in SaidIt

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Thanks for the inquiry, I discussed why we can't do that here: https://saidit.net/s/whatever/comments/ay50/reddit_blackout_welcome_thread/12iw0

What if the whole "2 day blackout" was engineered to allow admins to test some new features with a protest being a convenient excuse? by neovulcan in MeanwhileOnReddit

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I think some people who a 3rd party app is their only access point, might leave for good, especially if they're already on the edge of leaving.

I'm rebooting Rabbit Hole. Who wants to be involved? by LarrySwinger2 in Cassy

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The more forums the better! I hope it works out, best of luck

'You're going to get lit up': Shocking moment Colorado sheriff's deputy Tasers man in the FACE while in handcuffs - as he waits for his son who was pulled over during a traffic stop by [deleted] in PoliceMisconduct

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It's amazing how blatant it is that there are all these different "classes" of citizens that have completely different tiers of "justice" applied to them. It's so corrupt. Justice was supposed to be blind, to apply to all people equally. But instead now it's the exact opposite.

It's like the middle-ages caste system brought back to life.

Spammers are out of control (and I only block those with 2+ posts) by neolib in SaidIt

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Getting rid of everything under 10 votes just means they'll vote 11 times. There's no way to fix this, that's kind of the whole problem.

Binance delists Monero by Drewski in cryptocurrency

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Sad, the crypto space is really falling apart slowly compared to a few years ago. I think online retailers not accepting payment in crypto is one of the major failure points.

Request: Update Saidit.net Canary by Drewski in SaidIt

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The canary expired so even if I posted it, I'm not sure it means anything anymore, because as originally intended the one-time switch has been permanently flipped, so to speak.

But the site hasn't been compromised any more than what you can see in the comments and posts here every day. The compromising is occurring at the user post and comment level, not at the admin level, which saidit has been careful to avoid.

Wise words from Reddit. While it is kind of obvious it needs to be repeated because a lot of people don't get it. by Canbot in MeanwhileOnReddit

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Don't advocate violence on saidit

Curious about owners of Saidit how do they make any money from this website? by thomastheglassexpert in AskSaidIt

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At the bottom of every page, on the right side. Crypto is preferred, but patreon is also an option. Thanks!

Graph of total US credit card debt, notice the spike over the last few months? by magnora7 in finance

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Yes I saw something about a $1.5 trillion debt wave coming due on commercial real estate.

I heard McDonalds just sold their headquarters buildings and lowered their minimum wage. There's a lot of businesses having to downsize now with money being so hard to get thanks to federal reserve rate raises (which they need to do to curb the inflation they created during covid and due to the ongoing petrodollar collapse)

If you think I’m going to read a three page bot post, you’ve got your head up your ass. by GuyWhite in whatever

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They registered over 100 new accounts today and then used them one by one to post spam over the last 5 hours... I just right now deleted about 40 accounts and 200 posts and comments that were clearly all by this same person. They definitely have some automated tools. Some of the accounts are aged 6+ months. I turned the cloudflare up

Merry Christmas Saidit 🎄🧑‍🎄 by [deleted] in videos

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You too! Merry Christmas saidit!

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

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I'm saying it's potentially knowable, but any way to actually do that is extremely unlikely unfortunately

Saidit entry on InfoGalactic by LarrySwinger2 in SaidIt

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Shouldn't saidit have a little wikipedia article by now? I think one of the qualifications to have a wiki article was having a mention in a mainstream press article, and we've been mentioned in a few

CloudFlare check sucks by binaryblob in AskSaidIt

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Yeah I had the same issue with posting comments returning a 403. Refreshing the page and commenting quickly seems to fix it. They must've added some sort of timeout. They must be having a particularly bad attack, I've not seen some of these limitations before

Magnora7, please add more content admins. by LarrySwinger2 in SaidIt

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Noted! Any help is appreciated, doesn't have to be daily.

Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down - The company blamed the protest for causing issues across its website and mobile apps. by neolib in MeanwhileOnReddit

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That's a good point. I thought reddit screwed this up when they moved to the redesign, but their smart move was keeping old.reddit.com. If they got rid of that during the redesign several years ago, we probably would've seen a digg situation. Smart move on reddit's part to keep the legacy design accessible.

I spent a total of 3 hours clicking CloudFlair check-boxes trying to be allowed to login to SaidIt today....like usual by SoCo in whatever

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I mean fighting in the sense of arguing and posting tons of comments and posts that hijack entire threads and forums. Like for example, a thread might have 90 comments, 40 are russian shills arguing the pro-russian side, 40 are US shills arguing the US side, and then 10 are actual real people. Because the different shill groups try to shut each other down they get caught in arguments with each other, and those arguments end up making up the bulk of some threads. Especially if it's a contentious MSM hot button current issue for both sides, then it goes wild and normal folk can barely get a word in edgewise.

An actually pretty sad explanation for why Ellen Page has turned out this way by hfxB0oyA in whatever

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Banned for advocating violence and making alt accounts to bypass a previous ban.

I spent a total of 3 hours clicking CloudFlair check-boxes trying to be allowed to login to SaidIt today....like usual by SoCo in whatever

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That's probably a function of how many tor attacks we have received in the previous couple hours, it tightens the security if there is a DDOS attempt through tor or other VPNs (which we get about 10 daily for years now, and they must be automated because they keep trying yet never succeed)

I spent a total of 3 hours clicking CloudFlair check-boxes trying to be allowed to login to SaidIt today....like usual by SoCo in whatever

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The checkbox is actually an advanced form of captcha that detects mouse movements and timing to see that they look human, it's not just a random box (even though cloudflare disguised it that way)

Black man charged with murdering two White strangers in Oklahoma because of their race by Musky in news

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Advocating violence is not allowed on saidit, and will result in an account ban.

Graph of total US credit card debt, notice the spike over the last few months? by magnora7 in finance

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Good observation. To that effect, look at the delinqunicy rate from the article where I got the OP graph: https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/credit-card-debt-statistics/

It shows that the delinquency rates are very low right now, but the debt is very high. So everyone has taken out massive credit card debt, but it hasn't come due yet.

So 60-120 days from now we could be seeing large amounts of delinquency, and then it might get bad like you say. They already cut EBT a few months ago pretty drastically, ending all the covid bonuses.

Clown flare is back by Jiminy in whatever

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Block button doesn't work when the use a different username for each post, which they were doing. The cloudflare thing is annoying but it's better than the AI and spam posts, trust me.

Saving culture by rubberbiscuit in whatever

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The disappearance of the "third place" is a minor travesty. People don't hang out at public places nearly as often as 40 years ago.

Graph of total US credit card debt, notice the spike over the last few months? by magnora7 in finance

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You were insulated by having a decent job. I was just starting out and got slaughtered career-wise and never recovered. And most of my peers in my graduating class have a similar story.

‘More killing won’t bring back lost lives’: Tal Mitnick, 18, on going to prison instead of joining IDF by Drewski in Antiwar

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Agreed. I hope in a decade or two we're on a better track, and I hope in 200 years people look at this era and see it as uncivilized as how we look at the 1800s compared to the present day. With the broad availability of so much information, I have to hope it's just a matter of time until wise behavior becomes organized in to lasting global cultural movements.

‘More killing won’t bring back lost lives’: Tal Mitnick, 18, on going to prison instead of joining IDF by Drewski in Antiwar

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If everyone thought like this guy, there would be no more war. Maybe someday there will be a global mainstream anti-war culture. The people have to learn to reject pro-war mindsets event though the media trains us to embrace it.

If you think I’m going to read a three page bot post, you’ve got your head up your ass. by GuyWhite in whatever

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Great minds think alike, ha. Completely agree with your analogy.

Could be a hobby by one deranged individual, but it also might be a group that is paid to attack many forums. Either way our response is the same, so it doesn't really matter I guess. I would just think a lone nutter would eventually get bored or move on to something else after years of failure...

AITA Husband doesn't want me to go on girls trip by K_teacher in AskSaidIt

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Probably part of the spam attack ongoing today, I would guess this is a bot account