Main site has following rules:

• No abusive language

• No bigotry

• No advertising

• No pornography

Obviously last 2 aren’t relevant here. First two, strictly as written, I wouldn’t have issues with but I have seen sooo many leftists sites use the same language to basically virtue signal that they don’t like conservatives, conservative ideas, or speaking out in any way against minorities.

Like I can understand not wanting slurs or personal attacks. But not being able to voice the opinion that affirmative-action hurts minorities or that gender-affirming care harms the patient as well as society without being called a bigot seems practically impossible on reddit or 99.999% of Lemmy instances.

Could be these guys interpret those rules literally like I do or could be they interpret things through a Critical Race Theory / leftist lens. I have no clue but I usually put it in reverse when I see this cuz it’s so often the leftist interpretation.

were there any other instances that do free speech? i see your quotes so not getting my hopes up lol

What site?

yeah, exploding-heads. per announcement EH is going permanently offline after 8/31 since Kapow and others have expressed no confidence in future of lemmy (too easy for admins to censor content that users might be interested in, defed wars, issues with updates that cause lot of headaches for admins, etc).

Some folks are moving to nostr (e.g. https://satellite.earth/n/explodingheads) but others have stated they have no interest in moving there and will probably drift to other sites. I did see you had a narwhal.city account but wasn’t sure if you posted the same kind of things over there or not. Hadn’t been aware of that kbin instance, so thanks - will bookmark

Fair enough. Obviously, once good people are back in power, it would be easy enough to sort out loopholes and make it harder for this kind of thing to happen going forward.

But how would you propose to correct the problem in the short-term without stooping to their level or caving to their demands? Having JP move to the US / out of Canada seems to me to just be running away from the problem rather than meeting it head on.

* we would never such a thing unless provoked 😉

The complaints against him were not made by people who had direct, or even secondary contact with him or his clients.

…

Peterson said that the complainants were comprised of “about a dozen people from all over the world” who “submitted complaints” about his public statements, including those made on social media and during appearances on such podcasts such as The Joe Rogan Experience.

One of the things that I have noticed pretty consistently is that the woke tards always fail to consider how resorting to underhanded tactics could backfire and be used against them.

For example, the way I’m reading this, doesn’t this that mean people can basically lodge complaints without being patients of the psychologists or even residents of Canada? And if so, then couldn’t people make similar complaints against the people who have been assigned as educators (and presumably are woke tards), e.g. “Dr. Erika Abner, LLM, LLB, Ph.D, or Gail Siskind, RN, MA” and more importantly against the board members pushing this idiocy, e.g. the Ontario College of Psychologists?

Would be kind of funny to suddenly see hundreds or even thousands of complaints lodged against people who are trying to bring him to task over a mere dozen or so.

any plans if/where you will post when the site goes down? I’ve enjoyed the stuff you share so just curious

Praying this will backfire tremendously on the woke left and even more people both in the states and abroad will start seeing how corrupt the democrats are

For people who don’t have time to skim it:

Sounds like GA passed a law that “bans certain medical procedures and therapies for minors who experience gender dysphoria” (e.g. trying to prevent trans grooming) and some woke trans retards are trying to sue to get it revoked.

I really hate that this is a thing. feels like years ago when i read about a court case where a burglar was suing homeowners cuz he was injured while breaking in. some stuff ought to just be common sense shit that you don’t do.

Thanks. I’m basically in the same boat and have been using Linux+vpn+Firefox. Will check out some of the clients you linked to

Mostly I was asking in case I pissed off the owners with my usual shitstorm of memes.

I haven’t figured out how to get amethyst app + netguard+ vpn working so I am pretty much only accessing it via desktop (Linux+vpn+ firefox) and the site currently doesn’t let you edit the relays in user settings.

If you have any suggestions for a Linux client, will take a look. But just figured that this currently means I’m probably at least somewhat at risk if I piss off the site owners, unless I either get a better setup working pr make another account.

Edit: nvm, just saw another comment with the link to https://nostr.com/clients, including the 3 desktop ones. Will take a look

I like all kinds of interests but I don’t tend to spend lots of time on them at most lemmy instances.

Everything from books/fiction, Linux/tech, reading about piracy on dbzer0, exercise, survival/offgrid stuff. And an insane amount of time on memes but usually I don’t get those from lemmy.

What kind of books you like? I’m a fiction junkie, especially fantasy. lately I’ve been exploring some xianxia and litrpgs. A lot of it’s trash but I like some more than others.

Forgot to ask earlier if I understood correctly, but is it safe to assume that you and MOB are not the ones running the satellite.earth server and the EH room there is basically backed up via relays?

E.g. the community on that server is essentially a guest but if they ever decided to censor, we’d just grab our posts/etc from the relay and move the entire thing, history and all, somewhere else?

Thanks.

I think this is where I had gotten the impression it didn’t support it

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/issues/150

But after re-reading, I see that it was some statement by a random asking questions with no stated source and nobody actually addressed that… So I think it’s safe to say I misinterpreted. Sorry

I assume that’s what he’s talking about.

EH block list is super short since Kapow also didn’t like to defed. I think he only did spambot sites and sites with illegal stuff (IIRC, burggit.moe for instance has what most countries outlaw as child porn but was legal in some very specific locale that they set up shop in; have heard others say that loli/shota stuff, while gross, is not illegal do there might be some variance based on country?; discussion of them from another instance, the first comment in turn links to another discussion of them on lemmy.world).

Current EH blocked instances:

Blocked Instances Name Software Version

lemmy.juggler.jp lemmy 0.18.3

burggit.moe lemmy 0.18.4

threads.net

pornlemmy.com lemmy 0.18.4-nsfw

What’s the best way to get on Nostr on TOR?

Far from an expert but I think I was reading something earlier on one of the github tickets about that not being possible, at least not at present.

If MOB or somebody more knowledgeable wants to chime in great… TBH, I would love to be wrong about this as I too am very interested in accessing over TOR.

As for the rest of it, my understanding was this was mostly a case of switching for a tech that made us more censorship resistant. If there’s a story or more to it than that, then I guess I’m out of the loop too.

AFAIK, the problems with EH going down sounded like a problem with federation (read: a bug in the underlying lemmy code, possibly only showing up in certain configurations since not all instances appear to be affected). I am not involved in server admin and this is based on what I remember from some of MOB’s comments I saw on the nostrchat.io site before.

Haven’t run into problems with hcaptcha yet myself but I’ll take your word on it

Most of my complaints with Google’s recaptcha fall into:

• them being more aggressive to users of Firefox/vpn/privacy addon and requiring a lot more screens of verification than normal
• On the multi image tiles, adding long 5+ second delays when you click an image and they replace it
• on the single image divided into a grid, they are never clear on border scenarios (eg edge of whatever in another tile) and in many cases choose pictures where the thing being selected occupies a large number of tiles. Combined with the first bullet point, this creates a massive number of clicks to pass verification

But yeah, if there’s something else that bypasses picture selection altogether, I’m totally down for that. I’ve seen some that have you rotate an image and never had issues with those either.

Are you talking about from the home page? Clicking “All” there shows posts from EH + all lemmy instances that EH federates from. Plus 50 bagillion crossposts.

Well, Chris, I’m sorry but You Will Never Be A Woman so best I can do is enjoy a meal with you while we shit talk the left.