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Aight dude

I definitely saw several comments that strike me as political, which is exactly my point, everyone has a different definition.

When every aspect of your life is affected by politics, everything is political.

100%

Internet by the people, and for the people, truly.

The problem is politics impacts everything and the word “political” means different things to different people.

To some, talking about being gay is political, even though to people who are in that community, it’s literally just talking about their lives.

If you allow wolves and sheep into a space, that is a wolves-only space.

(For context, I agree with you.)

Sure, if you think of it as purely semantic, or a zero sum game with no nuance, but it’s not.

Gotta be intolerant of those being needlessly cruel to those just trying to live their lives, and gotta be tolerant of those just trying to live their lives that don’t affect you, even if you find it cringey.

I’ve noticed most discussions i have here end with a LOT less anger and a LOT more learning and that makes me happy.

I do like the slow down, cowboy think and I’m pretty sure reddit had that extremely early on as well

Canada too, apparently

I think a lot of people that think the UX is different from reddit weren’t on reddit 14 years ago when it did look very similar to this.

I’ve seen it a few times but it’s really easy to avoid tbh

It’s very on-brand

The only difference between that and the US is that China calls itself communist (china is communist in the same way the states is a democracy).

Oh, and the Chinese actually have socialized healthcare.

That’s not the threat you think it is

Thank you so much! I really appreciate you going above and beyond to provide me with some literature! :)

Thanks for clarifying!

My understanding is very basic, but from what I understand (please anyone feel free to correct me if you know more), it uses newsgroups, which is, historically speaking, an extremely old computer network communication system (conceived in '79) that was used for sharing news and files (it used to have forums and stuff on it too), and it works by transferring files in parts, then unpacking/assembling them at their end point.

Because they are in pieces during transfer, it’s very difficult for ISPs to know what you are downloading, therefore no VPN is necessary.

There is also no seeding because it’s a server-client model, not P2P.

I’ll have to talk to my brother because he’s the one that set it up, but i think we use dognzb and it seems to work quite well.

I’m working towards a better understanding of it so if that doesn’t answer your question please let me know and I’ll get you a proper answer :)

Or, hear me out for a sec: Usenet?

The other founder is Moxie Marlinspike who is a security researcher