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Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by freehorse »

wat10000 wrote: post #63
nfbdhdfbf wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It definitely won’t. People love pointing out the Streisand effect as though we’re still in the same social media dynamic that we were 30 or 15 years ago. Wake the fuck up. Banning the app is 100% certainly going to reduce it all’s usage. The fact that you somehow think you could have the opposite effect is a sign that your head is buried so deep in the sand and you have no idea what the current state of the world is…

The Streisand effect only works for things people are interested in to begin with. People love embarrassing photos about celebrities so it works great on those. "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app with dual transport architecture." Oops, you've already lost everyone.

Also it works if you can still actually install it. If they ban it from the app store in ios, there is no practical way people can install it on iphones. But if it is just github, it does not really create much of an issue (people found another hosting platform).

Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by vitalyan8184 »

inigyou wrote: post #85
guess_who_is_it wrote: post #27

jack promoted censorship when he was in twitter, now he is playing the saint card.

All social media is censored. If you think yours isnt, you're free to test that hypothesis by posting the N word over and over. I suspect you'll find that you get censored for doing so.

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Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by miohtama »

nfbdhdfbf wrote: post #56
illithid0 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely this won't have the opposite effect that they're looking for.

It definitely won’t. People love pointing out the Streisand effect as though we’re still in the same social media dynamic that we were 30 or 15 years ago. Wake the fuck up. Banning the app is 100% certainly going to reduce it all’s usage. The fact that you somehow think you could have the opposite effect is a sign that your head is buried so deep in the sand and you have no idea what the current state of the world is…

That's exactly why we fight back harder and do not bury our heads in the sand or anywhere else.

This website is called Hacker News. It's not called Authoritarian Cuck News.

Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by qphe95 »

mastax wrote: post #67
qphe95 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well banning it pushed it to Radicle and now people are moving to GitHub alternatives so I think the Streisand effect worked.

Did banning it cause it to get adopted even faster in India than it otherwise would have? That seems like the salient point to me for the Indian government’s calculus. I don’t have a particularly good feel for Indian society but my prior is that this kind of official friction puts a pretty low hard cap on how popular an app can get. If the realistic ambition was only ever to reach a small circle of activists and nerd…

We both know systems are more complex than # of downloads. In this case, the ban was a sign of weakness the establishment of the government and Github and definitely their control was weakened, which is the opposite of their goal of maintaining control, so it did not have the desired effect.

Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by stackghost »

miohtama wrote: post #95
nfbdhdfbf wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It definitely won’t. People love pointing out the Streisand effect as though we’re still in the same social media dynamic that we were 30 or 15 years ago. Wake the fuck up. Banning the app is 100% certainly going to reduce it all’s usage. The fact that you somehow think you could have the opposite effect is a sign that your head is buried so deep in the sand and you have no idea what the current state of the world is…

That's exactly why we fight back harder and do not bury our heads in the sand or anywhere else. This website is called Hacker News. It's not called Authoritarian Cuck News.

It's genuinely hard to tell if this comment is satire or not.

HN is widely known for being the home of the technocrat corporate bootlicker. Very little of the hacker ethos ever gets espoused here.

Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by iamnothere »

ck2 wrote: post #14

btw what's the current state of mesh wifi? seems like after November or January 2029 might need it since administration now has a kill-switch so why wouldn't they use it

“Always connected” meshes don’t scale, but fragmented meshes that use store-and-forward for some data are workable. I’d like to see someone do this with Nostr. The main issue is that you’d have to limit the size of data in transit, so rich media is probably not realistic.

Think FIDO protocol rather than the always-on internet we’re accustomed to.

A mesh of meshes may also be possible in theory.

Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by iamnothere »

culi wrote: post #77
thisisnotauser wrote: post #39

I love these posts, every week it's "Gloop is now on Ploof!"

it's just two recent examples (Gleam on Tangled and now Bitchat on Radicle) and they're both the same format. [Some well-liked but niche tech] switched their code forge to [a decentralized code forge]. Tbh I'm surprised how many on HN seem unfamiliar with Tangled and Radicle (and Bitchat and Gleam).

Radicle and Bitchat have been covered here quite a few times. These drive-by commenters (all making the same joke) come every time, and they think they’re being clever by discouraging people from looking into the product.

Note that you’ll never hear people saying “what’s a Google” (an equally ridiculous name) or jumping on some random YC startup with a silly name. It’s always the open source tech. It’s not random!

Joke’s on them anyway, I believe many users have embraced the alternate interpretation of the name. There’s a @BitchatMe_ Twitter account that covers BitChat news, for example. They’re just being annoying without any real effect.

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