Hexbear is going to be one of the few places on the internet where you can say "death to Israel"
Death to Israel.
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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They will turn the screws on the hosting providers if (and when) it comes to it.
And even if the hosting provider doesn't, the US government can just seize the domain. .net is administered by US-based Verisign.
So what's our plan B? If the domain is seized, I'm assuming that we'll get updates from the fediverse account. But if there's some sort of problem there (matapacos.dog is seized, or no updates get posted because those with access to the matapacos @hexbear account have been arrested, or other unforeseen problem) how do we re-group?
we need significantly more resilient communications infrastructure. though this applies equally to disaster prep since the internet is extremely fragile. i see this as a problem with a bunch of parts, but some of the main pieces look like this to me:
- organizing computers (spare phones, spare laptops, actual server hardware) into cloud-like infrastructure components
- writing software that actually works well running on trash (fediverse nodes really hate it when hostnames change, so hexbear itself may not adapt well if the domain gets seized. they aren't a good match for disaster services either since you can't guarantee that global DNS will work)
- building overlay networks to connect nodes over the internet (yggdrasil+i2p looks like a winner in the short term)
- building a physical mesh network to link nearby computers together over fast links (BATMAN for no se vende mesh here in LA)
- developing a mobile adhoc mesh routing protocol that can setup a usable internet using only smartphones that interoperates with the fixed mesh noted in 4 (this will likely replace BATMAN, but is also a research problem and would represent a novel capability)
there are a bunch of shitty mesh apps and hardware components out there that may also be applicable, but its hard to get anything useful out of them without more planning and coordination. (meshtastic, briar, secure scuttlebutt, simplex, et al. come to mind)
i've been working on minibase for the micro-cloud component in an experimental capacity for years using alpine linux (just cuz i like it), but I've recently started working on a production version based on nix.
4: building a physical mesh network to link nearby computers together over fast links (BATMAN for no se vende mesh here in LA)
5: developing a mobile adhoc mesh routing protocol that can setup a usable internet using only smartphones that interoperates with the fixed mesh noted in 4 (this will likely replace BATMAN, but is also a research problem and would represent a novel capability)
I think there is a strong tendency to put the cart before the horse when it comes to mesh networking. People imagine how cool it would be to have widespread mesh networks, but setting up a digital radio doohickey accomplishes nothing if there is nobody listening on the other end. We need social organizations first. Then, communications technology can be built to serve the needs of these organizations. It is very much a local organizing problem. The tech does not circumvent this.
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finally, the dream of hexbear.su will come to fruition
lemmy or lemmygrad both have Mali domain names, decent place to regroup if they aren't taken down at the same time. I think the hosting provider is the same though. Hoping the admins in charge of the infra and with access to that account aren't US-based though
I don't know how it works with hosting but we've got both lib.rehab and chapo.chat
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This comment just got reported by @[email protected] for "Hate Speech". Show yourself, nerd.
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Is there a plan for if/when that happens? Something that we should all be aware of just in case the site goes down and never comes back up.
I'm not sure where I would even start to look if it did disappear.
Also I think I'd probably stop using the internet all together if I lost this site.
My plan b: 
Again I recommend we use a website hosted by a "bad country". It would be terrible optics for the US and may get protection from CIA or Israeli bots
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man , i would be so sad if hexbear really goes down. losing the chapotraphouse sub(s) sucked too, but that wouldn't be as bad as hexbear
I got a month-long ban on Fascistbook for telling a Boer IDF soldier that me and his wife "did it like 2 Barbie dolls in a washing machine", with the infraction cited as "bullying".
Infinite DF-51 launches on "israel"
On the other hand I reported a comment that was verbatim ""I want to kill n-words" for racism and got a response that they decided it didn't infringe on their terms of service.
Edit: wait that was twitter
There is no censorship in the U.S. 
Americans don't notice censorship the same way that fish don't notice water.
I never needed the internet to be centralized around a cluster of corporate walled gardens, I've been rolling my eyes since the first time I noticed Facebook pruning my friends' posts in 2008. The medium is the message, the message being 'Fuck you, serf'
My browsing life gets better the less I interact with the tech giants
“Serfs up! Don’t forget you’re bored.”
Dead internet that's all bots and Hasbara and AI boobs and hands.
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a shrimp Jesus stamping on a human face, forever.”
Apartheid Defense League in action
can't ruin what's already SHIT
Hexebear is the only democratic site tbf
To be fair they did hit asmongold for his "Palestinians are subhuman" bullshit rant thankfully. Not sure how permanent or long it was for though as I really don't care for that twat
they also unbanned Sneako, an actual neo-Nazi.
I HATE INFLUENCERS
I HATE INFLUENCERS
Gross :(
Literally death to influencers and streamers.
asomngold got 14 days for that. This group of streams got 30 days for being on a panel at the last twichcon where there was a tierlist where F-tier was "likes sabra hummus".
Twitch also unbanned this guy on the same day. He allegedly harassed people at twitch con and was transphobic.
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This is the kind of shit that anti-semites spew, about the Jews controlling the media, and then the ADL goes and tries to do.
It’s been said, but Israel does more to propagate anti-semetism than just about any other entity in the world.
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“Trying” implies at least the possibility of failure. They’re not trying anything.
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Why do I get the feeling 4chud is going to be left completely untouched, if not be the ones cheerleading this?
Western antisemites always have this weird fetish for Israel, like an older brother that tells the guy bullying his younger brother “Messing with him is MY job!”
Western antisemites always have this weird fetish for Israel
as far as i can tell it comes down to 2 things. one is that they generally hate arabs more than jews so they like the genocide going on there. two is that they like the idea of all the jews leaving whatever country they live in and going to the middle east. sometimes it's a full mask-off fascist "we should all just have ethnostates and then everything would be fine" take
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Id prefer no Twitch personally.
The commercial "public forums" are all moribund, and the only worthwhile future of the internet is in self-funded sites.
Don't look back, comrades. We are not afraid of ruins.
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