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Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by namanyayg »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #139
namanyayg wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralised way? But that'd be susceptible to 51%-esque attacks too, and no one wants to provide resources for the site. I think we're gonna be stuck with shitty walled censored communities for a while. At least there's hn?

"I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralized way" - Everyone has that same thought until it's put into practice and you find yourself hosting stuff "from the community" that can get you dragged into court or prison. BTW... if you think "the community" is going to come together and help you through the financial and legal hardships you will be sorely mistaken. They will just pack up and move on to the nex…

Decentralised by providing computing power, not hosting content. Would that still constitute as illegal if the bits aren't on your computer, and hence are unviewable by you, but you have somehow donated computing resources to run the network?

Just thinking out loud

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by pklem »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #134

Good luck with moderating this thing. Everyone bitches and moans about Reddit, but the fact of the matter is that sites like Reddit cost a ton to keep up and running and without some sort of revenue, they go down. Without some sort of regulation, sites QUICKLY divulge into a collection of scrupulous and illegal activities, and become blacklisted from advertisers. I get how everyone wants a community that they can pos…

I was skeptical of your cynicism at first, but then I I loaded up explore, and in the first 20 results was r/incels, r/loli, and r/beastiality. I do appreciate how this project seeks to improve on reddit at a policy level, and if enough (sane) people migrated from reddit, I would consider switching over. However, currently as it stands, I only see this website becoming reddit's 8chan, where reddit users who are banned or otherwise censored go.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by davefp »

djsumdog wrote: post #49
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #33

How will you avoid- > John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory was proposed in the Penny Arcade (web comic) on March 19, 2004 by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. It says that when a normal person is allowed anonymity and an audience, they lose social inhibitions and act inappropriately. If anything, the last decade has taught us the immutability of this law. Usernames and comment history seem to help somewhat w…

Be careful if you're at work. There's already porn on this thing in some of the Imgur links. I miss the late 90s when you had a lot of small, independent websites. Sure there was always a war against spammers and scripts, but I feel like you could find more independent content from individuals instead of these big link aggregation platforms (remember web-rings?) There is more to think about today when making somethin…

Lobsters uses an invitation tree, you can read a bit more about it here: https://lobste.rs/about

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by floatingatoll »

whenchamenia wrote: post #154
floatingatoll wrote: post #46

Patreon’s URL for reporting community guidelines violations is here: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/requests/new Those guidelines are here for anyone who is curious: https://www.patreon.com/policy/guidelines

How is this relevant? The project does not seem to be violating any guidelines. Are you suggesting an illegal and unethical reporting of a sites donated income because you don't agree with it on a publicly indexed forum? If so, thats really messed up.

"Illegal"?

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by johnisgood »

calcifer wrote: post #132
vharuck wrote: post #110

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>Total anonymity seems to always lead to a cesspool like 4chan. 4chan is a collection of boards, and not all of them are cesspools. The ones focused on niche hobbies tend to fare better. Of course, abrasive discussion is still common. But one man's cesspool is another man's hot spring.

> But one man's cesspool is another man's hot spring. A cesspit is still a cesspit even if some people choose to call it a hot spring.

X is a cesspit to you, and X is a hot spring to someone else. Why would your perspective be the superior or the ultimate one?

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

Smithalicious wrote: post #129
cc-d wrote: post #66

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>EDIT: I do have some problems with this rule: "Nothing that violates US law, or anything that would be considered 'gray area'." What is a 'gray area' is, itself, a gray area. I don't think the rule itself needs changing, but it would be good if it was supported by some examples of things that people might want to do but you won't allow. Loli/shota porn mainly. Other forms of borderline cp. The problem is, specifical…

>Loli/shota porn mainly Consider my interest in the site nullified and your morals ridiculed.

Porn is 3d pretty sure?

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

bArray wrote: post #124
cc-d wrote: post #116

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>For a site focused on transparency and privacy, it's parked behind CloudFlare. I can't view the site past the about page without JS enabled and allowing CloudFlare to probe and track me. Unfortunately I have no choice in this regard. I do no have the means to resist any sort of ddos. I remember at one point you could set the 'cloudflare security level' to low, but when I looked in the UI today I could not find such…

> If there exists a solution to either not using cloudflare, > or some option hidden away that allows me to tell clouflare > o fuck off with how it treats traffic, I'd love to know. The method I use to avoid CloudFlare altogether (probably wrong as it's bespoke) is to do the following before "handling" the request: * Store all connecting IPs, last request time and the rate at which requests are being made in a servic…

Do you even need to store ips? Just count accepted connections and every, say, 1000th connection check current time, if less than a second elapsed since previous check, close the listening socket. Isn't ddos caused by packet congestion rather than server processing?

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by toper-centage »

ericsoderstrom wrote: post #101
est wrote: post #92

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> split the concept of "subreddit" into "tags" and "communities". Tags are brilliant idea until you have tens of thousands of them. Plural forms, hyphens or without hyphens, synonyms, i18n tags of the same thing, mis-spellings, etc.

These problems aren't unique to tags, they're already present in subreddits names. For the most part it doesn't seem to be a big deal. As long as you can see the number of subscribers to a certain tag when creating your post, stackexchange style, then you'll probably end up with the tags you intended most of the time.

Exactly. You just need to take a look at www.reddit.com/r/subredditsashastags

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by thrownaway954 »

namanyayg wrote: post #161
thrownaway954 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralized way" - Everyone has that same thought until it's put into practice and you find yourself hosting stuff "from the community" that can get you dragged into court or prison. BTW... if you think "the community" is going to come together and help you through the financial and legal hardships you will be sorely mistaken. They will just pack up and move on to the nex…

Decentralised by providing computing power, not hosting content. Would that still constitute as illegal if the bits aren't on your computer, and hence are unviewable by you, but you have somehow donated computing resources to run the network? Just thinking out loud

I wouldn't risk my freedom finding out. Maybe talk to a lawyer and report back to us.

Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

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Post by cc-d »

GoblinSlayer wrote: post #167
bArray wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If there exists a solution to either not using cloudflare, > or some option hidden away that allows me to tell clouflare > o fuck off with how it treats traffic, I'd love to know. The method I use to avoid CloudFlare altogether (probably wrong as it's bespoke) is to do the following before "handling" the request: * Store all connecting IPs, last request time and the rate at which requests are being made in a servic…

Do you even need to store ips? Just count accepted connections and every, say, 1000th connection check current time, if less than a second elapsed since previous check, close the listening socket. Isn't ddos caused by packet congestion rather than server processing?

This is exactly it.

Some forms of ddos are focused on layer 7, but these are not the problem.

The ddos attacks that are actually difficult to deal with are the layer 3, multi-hundred gigabit attacks. Which in our new IoT reality, are not uncommon.

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