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Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by lottin »

cmatthieu wrote: post #2

Welcome to NoFILTER, the unstoppable, uncensorable, undeplatformable freedom of speech app. By design, this app allows you to spread your word without limits. This app and your articles reside on the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a decentralized mesh network consisting of thousands of user nodes. There is no web server, no database, and no cloud; therefore, making this app and your content unstoppable and undepl…

Out of curiosity, if this app really allows unstoppable and uncensorable posting, how does it deal with DoS attacks?

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by dboreham »

lottin wrote: post #11
cmatthieu wrote: post #2

Welcome to NoFILTER, the unstoppable, uncensorable, undeplatformable freedom of speech app. By design, this app allows you to spread your word without limits. This app and your articles reside on the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a decentralized mesh network consisting of thousands of user nodes. There is no web server, no database, and no cloud; therefore, making this app and your content unstoppable and undepl…

Out of curiosity, if this app really allows unstoppable and uncensorable posting, how does it deal with DoS attacks?

There's also the question of reachability on IPFS. Something _existing_ on IPFS is not the same as : everyone can access it .

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by drcongo »

drooby wrote: post #8
drcongo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taking away my right to post photos. The irony.

We have a right to post photos?

No, which is kinda the point. Every platform makes decisions about what content is acceptable, this one has decided your hate speech is perfectly fine, but a photo of your dog is beyond the pale.

Twitter, Facebook etc. all make their own decisions about what is acceptable for you to post on their platform, and so does this "free speech" platform.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by KennyBlanken »

feoren wrote: post #5

Every single time someone tries something like this, it becomes a bastion for hate speech and everyone else is driven away. It turns out most people actually like a moderated forum. If you joined a book club and every meeting had people just screaming the N-word at the top of their lungs the entire time, I suspect you wouldn't stay at that book club long. Yet time and time again we see people learning this same lesso…

Back in April I fired up LBRY when I heard about it. Sounded kinda neat on a technical front.

95% of the page was conspiracy-tards and racists. Noped right off, and haven't been on since.

Just launched it again and the front page shows a video from some asshole talking about how she's discovered that Measles is a sham and SHE has uncovered the fact that NOBODY has proved the existence of virus particles! Also, turns out that PCR is fake, who knew? eyeroll

LBRY is now dominated by "pseudopandemic" vloggers, antivaxxers, 9/11 conspiratards, "population control" conspiratards, "Australia is FALLING!!!"...the list goes on.

There are people who legitimately could use censorship-free platforms, but they're drowned out by all the assholes and morons who think they're being "censored" by (insert boogeyman here) trying to hide THE TRUTH...when really it's that nobody can stand their bigotry/stupidity.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by azinman2 »

drcongo wrote: post #13
drooby wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have a right to post photos?

No, which is kinda the point. Every platform makes decisions about what content is acceptable, this one has decided your hate speech is perfectly fine, but a photo of your dog is beyond the pale. Twitter, Facebook etc. all make their own decisions about what is acceptable for you to post on their platform, and so does this "free speech" platform.

If the entire MO of this is to be “uncensorable,” and “undeplatformable”, I don’t think there will be too many ordinary dog photos. Clearly this will be a place for fringe elements who otherwise are getting kicked off bigger platforms, and somehow don’t want to use the existing alt platforms.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by user-the-name »

feoren wrote: post #5

Every single time someone tries something like this, it becomes a bastion for hate speech and everyone else is driven away. It turns out most people actually like a moderated forum. If you joined a book club and every meeting had people just screaming the N-word at the top of their lungs the entire time, I suspect you wouldn't stay at that book club long. Yet time and time again we see people learning this same lesso…

At some point you really do have to stop giving people the benefit of the doubt and accept that, yes, people keep making these services because they want to be racist.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by sleepybrett »

cmatthieu wrote: post #4
new_guy wrote: post #3

So, what's your plan with dealing with child porn, weapons manuals, doxxing info, password dumps, revenge porn etc etc?

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. - Eleanor Roosevelt That's a great question. Free speech doesn't mean lawlessness. There are many exceptions listed in the US constitution and those can be pursued by authorities to the degree they na…

"make it easy" seems to be doing a lot of work there. What do you mean by this? Do you mean that because it's just a stream of bytes people could post all the child porn they like as base64 encoded strings? Have you just created alt. newsgroups again?

Congrats on your brand new hive soon to be overpopulated with scum and villainy.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by user-the-name »

cmatthieu wrote: post #4
new_guy wrote: post #3

So, what's your plan with dealing with child porn, weapons manuals, doxxing info, password dumps, revenge porn etc etc?

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. - Eleanor Roosevelt That's a great question. Free speech doesn't mean lawlessness. There are many exceptions listed in the US constitution and those can be pursued by authorities to the degree they na…

That's a lot of words to not answer a question in any way whatsoever.

Re: NoFILTER – free speech blogging app and content on IPFS

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Post by zkldi »

cmatthieu wrote: post #2

Welcome to NoFILTER, the unstoppable, uncensorable, undeplatformable freedom of speech app. By design, this app allows you to spread your word without limits. This app and your articles reside on the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a decentralized mesh network consisting of thousands of user nodes. There is no web server, no database, and no cloud; therefore, making this app and your content unstoppable and undepl…

What happens if someone uploads child pornography? Does it just stay there and everyone has to deal with looking at it?
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