🚀 Well, this should be interesting.

Thanks for the update Chives. None of this surprises me while I sit and watch reddit continue to circle the same drain as other platforms that deserve to be paid no attention or given any trust or benefit of the doubt.

Chalk reddit up to another centralized platform that once showed sparks of promise and now is just another fully coopted and controlled cesspit.

I personally don’t plan to go near the IPO as a profit play in either direction, and wouldn’t invest capital in the business itself on principle alone. But to each their own.

I hope more continue to move to decentralized alternatives.

Thanks very much for maintaining this.

Great post title and passage. We would all be stronger for heeding the advice to simply not bow.

I see far too many around me waiting to bow for the next celebrity or strongman that comes around dripping the honey they want to hear into their ears. Practice strength of will individually and collectively we won’t need them.

Self hosting is best if you have the knowhow, inclination and time to maintain it, but there are alias services that will encrypt any mail they forward using a key you provided so this would eliminate the ability of your chosen non-self-hosted email provider/server to easily read your received mail limiting their ability to profile or target to any metadata and header info that is passed along unencrypted.

Of course, then you are placing trust in the alias service’s privacy and logging policies. But some are open source and you could host an alias forwarding service yourself if you wished as well.

eatthecake, they clearly need you on the marketing team, stat.

To follow up again, it sounds like Mr. Webb is interested in discussing this and spreading the info. I know he’s done a few other interviews to promote this message.

Are there any people in the GME communities who might be able to catch his interest to do an interview or press him on some of your specific concerns and issues, or those of people who are involved or sympathetic to our cause?

If anyone here or elsewhere is that person, or aware of someone who may have the interest or pull, I’d think that could be illuminating.

Really good input and perspectives as always, Chives. I refrained from giving many of my own thoughts when posting as I wanted those who hadn’t seen or read it to go in cold and form their own opinions and generate discussion here. But I will share now that many of my thoughts are similar to some of yours. I selfishly wish he’d delved deeper into certain areas and highlighted different issues. But his experience in the industry certainly eclipses mine, and I suspect that based on this abbreviated condensation of the issues he’s concerned with that he is attempting to reach a broader audience and not speaking as directly to communities like this who have done deep dives around market structure and ownership over the past few years.

I thought at the very least it was worth considering what he presents and would almost certainly lead anyone who’s curiosity was piqued by the discussion to pull on threads that may lead them down some of the trails communities like this have also tugged and followed down the rabbit holes they lead into.

Great post jersan.

No matter how much disdain any of us may hold for the legacy corporate press propagandists, it’s likely still not nearly enough.

Touché

Point taken and I largely agree with the sentiment, but the clerk isn’t forced to do anything in this situation.

Let’s all individually help suffering children when and how we can in the most effective manners we can without the intervention of all the middle men and grift.

Even if someone, for whatever season, tries to manipulate you, resist that manipulation, point it out to others if you wish, and live by the example of your own moral code. That’s my $0.02 at least.

“ONLY criminals would have built such a system.”

gestures broadly at the political structures and institutions around us

Great post jersan. Thanks for compiling all those tweets for us.

I especially love that he quoted Mises!

Opt out where you can and let the evil empire crumble under the weight of its own mistakes. Cornered beasts will lash out hard, so don’t go for the killing blow, just let the empire die somewhere in the woods frok its self inflicted wounds and then peace-loving people can step into the void and build a better world.

In the meantime, do what you can to love those around you who you care for, promote liberty, support the innocents working for better change through peace, privacy, rights, speech, technology and so forth.

For those in the thread who say it is hard not to go back for specific content, if you want to go back to browse but limit the ad revenue and clicks, you can still reach it with some front ends like teddit.

Here is a good link: http://farside.link/teddit.com

Or, for example, you can directly access subreddits by appending /r/yoursubreddit to the end http://farside.link/teddit.com/r/memes

Sometimes an instance will be down. If so, try it again in a few minutes or in a new browser or tab or clear the cache so another loads.

Sorry to anyone who sees my multiple duplicates on this thread, but most only get notification of direct replies.

I’ll copy/paste a comment I made above again here in case it helps

If you find you want to go back to browse but limit the ad revenue, you can still reach it with some front ends like teddit.

Here is a good link: http://farside.link/teddit.com

Or, for example, you can directly access subreddits by appending /r/yoursubreddit to the end http://farside.link/teddit.com/r/memes

Sometimes an instance will be down. If so, try it again in a few minutes or in a new browser or tab so another loads.

https://farside.link/teddit.com

http://farside.link/teddit.com