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Re: Memory.lol

#12
post #3

This project beautifully highlights the problem with "web3"/"dweb"/decentralized social media projects. What people want is not permanence or anti-censorship. They want to feel safe in an increasingly scary world. I don't want psychos tracking me down and trying to ruin my life because I have a different opinion than them. I just want to have fun with my friends and be left alone.

> What people want is not permanence or anti-censorship.

I agree about uncontrollable permanance, however i think in general people want anti-censorship.

Re: Memory.lol

#14
post #3

This project beautifully highlights the problem with "web3"/"dweb"/decentralized social media projects. What people want is not permanence or anti-censorship. They want to feel safe in an increasingly scary world. I don't want psychos tracking me down and trying to ruin my life because I have a different opinion than them. I just want to have fun with my friends and be left alone.

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Re: Memory.lol

#16
You know this is what Stalin, and North Korea's Kim-Jong Un today would have dreamed of using? Probably will aid in collective punishment or 3 generations of punishment.

A tool like this is a noble totalitarians dream which anyone they didn't like can be brought into the light with absolute zero privacy, no path to redemption of past sins, mistakes or accidents and the internet will preserve and shame them forever.

The same developers like this one screaming and have hijacked 'open-source' are just helping the surveillance capitalists and dystopian new world order.

Re: Memory.lol

#17
post #5

The perfect cancel culture tool.

Written by someone who got fired from Twitter for spending way too much time making a political mess of the Scala community. Some people just can’t separate politics from literally everything else so they spend their best years and free time writing tools to cancel and harass people they don’t like and insist other communities act they way they want. Pretty sad, really.

Re: Memory.lol

#18

Ah good. We can retroactively destroy people's lives as the overton window shifts. What a splendid project.

The Overton Window is a little tired, but it also doesn't apply in the way you're implying: the reactionary accounts linked appear to have become uniformly more reactionary over time. Meanwhile, the course of action (recording everything they say) hasn't changed much.

Re: Memory.lol

#20

I reported[1] this repository, which seems to be encouraging doxxing or harassment of social media accounts the repository owner (a leftist, from the look of things) doesn't like, to GitHub. [1] https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?category=rep... EDIT: implicitly encouraging

I hope you reported the Cancel-culture repo too.
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