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       Addressing this message and why it's important to strive for a better future. (self.text)

  https://files.catbox.moe/cx4nhq.PNG

   

  
  
  Recently I decided to check on the (now mostly inactive) site and was presented with this message in my mailbox.
  
  The user, while hostile in tone, made a few fair points.
  
  

  You can say all you want about how you will protect the user's privacy when in reality every single piece of technology is already tracking you in some way, whether you like it or not.

  Correct, your phone is still tracking you, your ISP is tracking you, but these are not factors I can control. On ieddit, there is no user tracking/analytics/etc and all server logs are deleted after 2 weeks. I very intentionally designed the site to be able to be used in a javascript disabled tor browser, even though it made things more difficult.
  
  The website is behind cloudflare (set to minimum security settings) which is unfortunately required but other than that, use tor and disable JS and you will be able to use ieddit with more privacy than any other platform.
  
  Allowing people to say the word "nigger" wasn't the point of ieddit, voat already exists for that. Ieddit was meant to provide a non-profit, user-focused alternative to reddit which operated with full transparency, without ever being at risk of compromising our users in the name of profit.
  
  It's a combination of government authoritarianism and pursuit for endless profits that have left the internet in the sorry state it is in currently. The internet itself is still healthy in places such as wikipedia for example, which was a model this site was founded off of. The government surveillance we are all victim to is not yet all-encompassing, and can be actively resisted (use signal instead of sms, tor browser/logless vpn such as mullvad, etc).
  
  The fight for the internet is not over yet. I've been extremely busy lately trying to survive as a wagecuck, but once an opportunity presents itself, I'll once again throw myself into the arena and try to revive this place. Or maybe start fresh, with a non-clone name, and an actual non-profit organization behind development properly setup now that I'm not completely broke.

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       We're here once again. The reddit admins have demonstrated once again they are willing to discard the principles which made the site great in the pursuit of a fettered, optimally monetized cesspit. (self.text)

  https://www.redditstatic.com/banned-subreddits-june-2020.txt
  
  Another revolting display of the sheer vapidness of the reddit admins.
  
  There is nothing more to be said, everything I could say in this post has been said before. The end goal of reddit is apparently something akin to facebook 2.0
  
  Absolutely fucking abhorrent

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       МУККА - ДЕВОЧКА С КАРЕ (Official video) (www.youtube.com)

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       This Oversight By Jagex Made A Botter 10 Billion GP ($5000 USD) (www.youtube.com)

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       silver are you out there? (self.text)

  miss you buddy

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       i somehow managed to be hired during the worst economic collapse in history, after interviewing for months with no offers (self.text)

  imagine that. pay is lower than last few jobs but it's 100% remote and is something i'm more than qualified for.
  
  what a meme

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       Thoughts about opening ieddit up to accountless posts/comments? (self.text)

  For this to possibly work, non-account linked activities would obviously have to be highly restricted with subs being able to choose which restrictions apply to them'
  
  I'd like some feedback as to this possibility. The abuse/spam prevention measures will have to be rather draconian, but making an account will always be simply and easy so a few false-positives wouldn't be too big of a concern

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       Sorry about the downtime - I ran out of credit at my hosting provider (self.text)

  The lights have been turned back on thanks to https://ieddit.com/u/wnewlad/

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       My next project (self.text)

  Tonight I'm starting work on a very llightweight captcha library which does not require server side sessions or javascript. I'll be doing things properly from the very start, and will publish it as a pip package.
  
  Once this is compete, my next project is anolag.com. I'm going to write a very lightweight flask-based blogging software (once again doing things correctly from step 1 this time), which will be what is used for this blog.
  
  I mainly plan on writing in-depth on topics relating to prohibition. The chemistry, black market economics, history, neuroscience, etcetcetc. I'm tired of independently typing/verbalizing the same detailed arguments over and over. This site will allow me to publish ideas/arguments which I can link/copy paste whenever I am discussing adjacent topics, and hopefully will make a positive impact on the current state of affairs by serving as a resource others can use as a foundation.
  
  I'll also be able to monetize it as well with adsense, which hopefully will bring in some income.

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       Past, Present, Future (self.text)

  Let me begin by saying I've sunk over 3 months of my life into this project, with the hope of bringing about a non-commercial, transparent, optionally anonymous alternative to reddit.
  
  I feel like the project is finally close enough to feature complete to take a step back from development. Of course there is still a never-ending list of things to do, or be improved, but I simply cannot justify spending any additional time past what I have already invested (a quarter of a year) at my current position in life on a project which may or may not be used, while forgoing all income aside from inconsistent bug bounty payouts and (lol) runescape botting. Even if this project never sees use, I'll never view the time invested as lost. It certainly re-sharpened my dev skills after over a year of atrophy, and has directly resulted in many invaluable interactions/experiences I would not have had otherwise.
  
  Thank you to EVERYBODY who has contributed in some way to this project.
  
  It's honestly quite impactful emotionally to step back from daily development on a project which has been your primary concern and focus for the past quarter year year of your life, and to admit it hasn't (yet?) sustained the consistent level of use it set out to achieve. The question of 'what do I do now' is daunting, but it HAS to be something which brings in, preferably consistent, income. Realistically, my options are 1. Focus on bug bountys full time, 2. Start (seriously) looking for and applying to fulltime dev/security positions, or 3. Focus on independent, commercial ( but still open-source) work
  
  I obviously will still use the site daily, actively post any life events, traveling, bug bounty writeups, new projects, etc, and comment/moderate. I'll probably will even still commit code fairly often, I just cannot justify the full-time hours I have put into it daily for the past several months.
  
  I'll continue to link this site anywhere that it is relevant, and ask that (you) kindly do the same. If there comes a time in which the internet decides a site like this is needed, it will be here. If the site once again achieves a significant level of use, I'll re-prioritize development accordingly.
  
  I've also decided to hold off on the name change until the community overwhelmingly deems it as something which should happen.
  
  Thank you again to EVERYBODY who has contributed in any way to this project. Whether that be code, moderation, or posts/comments/votes. I love you all, even https://ieddit.com/u/adolf-hitler/ who was the only person I had to ban for the first 2 months of this project. You all have been great <3

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       gonna be the biggest currency hacker since the federal reserve (files.catbox.moe)

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       Hope my driver is okay (files.catbox.moe)

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       Have a power outlet and tethered 4g connect, time to fix a few bugs (files.catbox.moe)

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       Appalachian mountains as I fly from Knoxville to Atlanta (cdn.discordapp.com)

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       So, I was supposed to fly to LA all along. They scheduled me SF, but thankfully the HR girl caught it. In Knoxville airport, boarding in 20, to LA. (files.catbox.moe)

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  Same my man. Same.

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• [a]cc-d 283d parent

  I forgot about your custom CSS and almost had a heart attack when I opened this sub.
  
  Lmk how the e-bike goes. I'm going to start dropping ieddit references around the internet again and hopefully bring some life back to this place.

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  Honestly I think spez is probably disgusted at what the site has become, but is probably able to discard his concerns and distract himself by pursuing whatever distractions are provided by immense wealth.

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  Even the banned subreddit list is censored. Fucking incredible.

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  yep. we're here once again.
  
  I seriously cannot express the amount of contempt I have for those responsible for the direction reddit has taken over the past several years.
  
  They were given a key position of stewardship over the internet, and have betrayed all of us.
  
  And to what purpose? Is hundreds of millions in revenue not enough?
  
  Absolutely fucking disgusting.

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  only word i recognize is mephedrone but this shit has been stuck in my head all day

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  tbow for the low price of only $500

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• [a]cc-d 460d parent

  looks like we no longer have to rely on fucking runescape botting as a sole source of income lmao

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• [a]cc-d 460d parent

  yeah, that ended up not working out. enjoyed the experience though.
  
  as of today I have a job. pay is a bit lower than i was making before but it's 100% remote

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• [a]cc-d 470d parent

  imagine the site being down for like 8 days because i'm a broke boi
  
  i'm unironically making 100% of my income from runescape botting right now since apparently i'm unhirable lol

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• [a]cc-d 539d parent

  I think the best way to go about doing this is to offer an option to sub mods to open their sub to anonymous users (off by default), with the stipulation the mods HAVE to be 100% on-top of things. If the mods are unable to handle the non-account traffick, and it starts disrupting the site, I or another admin coudl always tep in to require accounts once more.

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• [a]cc-d 543d parent

  I'm not abandoning it, I just have to focus on things that pay my rent.

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  That is what killed the site yes, and it wasn't abandoned. It was an extremely difficult bug to identify in somebody else's code, as it wasn't replicateable and would only occur randomly after several hours/days of normal site operation., While at the same time, for the entire week, I was having to travel and literally didn't have the ability to work on the site.
  
  I put literally hundreds of hours of my time into this without any pay whatsoever, trust me I wasn't happy about it either.

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• [a]cc-d 545d parent

  Silver, you are by far one of my favorite people I have met on the internet.
  
  Thank you for volunteering to be an admin, and hanging around.

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