I don't think Hexbear has a tremendous amount of revolutionary potential
It is important to make this point loudly and often. This is a site on a federated network run by administration who are still finding their feet rather than experienced operators of secure websites. (No offense intended at all FWIW, but we don't even have a warrant canary afaik, let alone the recently stark lack of transparency in almost all things. I stand corrected see CARCOSA's reply.)
There have already been security scares with other federated sites intended for frequently targeted minorities having servers seized during unrelated raids. The legal precedent in the US and many other places is that evidence not pertinent to the being investigated crime during a raid can still be used as a jump-off point to open new investigations into other crimes exposed.
And it's not one server you have to worry about the security of once you start federating with other sites, it's a whole network of amateurs running servers with dubious security and unknown allegiances. Hexbear and the fediverse as it stands today should not be considered anything more than a social hub for people with similar sensibilities to share news and shitpost.
DO NOT POST ABOUT REAL LIFE OR COOL ACTIVITIES.
This is a shitposting website and the more we forget that the faster we run towards disaster.
Internet is srs bzns, hexbear is not.
But also it IS fed shit to organise a meetup. Don't do that. Join an org. Make real friends. Play board games. Form affinity groups. Use your imagination from there.
Maybe this is well known but I'm curious, how do the users know that something like that is legit? As far as I can tell it's just text on a website that can say anything regardless of what's happened behind the scenes.
Thank you for your work. Do you think I should delete my whole post, edit out the misinformation or just leave it as is so people can see me being a cringe dumbass?
edit: fuck I feel silly now, I was literally re-reading the CoC the other day and must have just not reached the bottom of the page or something.
It is important to make this point loudly and often. This is a site on a federated network run by administration who are still finding their feet rather than experienced operators of secure websites. (No offense intended at all FWIW,
but we don't even have a warrant canary afaik, let alone the recently stark lack of transparency in almost all things. I stand corrected see CARCOSA's reply.)There have already been security scares with other federated sites intended for frequently targeted minorities having servers seized during unrelated raids. The legal precedent in the US and many other places is that evidence not pertinent to the being investigated crime during a raid can still be used as a jump-off point to open new investigations into other crimes exposed.
And it's not one server you have to worry about the security of once you start federating with other sites, it's a whole network of amateurs running servers with dubious security and unknown allegiances. Hexbear and the fediverse as it stands today should not be considered anything more than a social hub for people with similar sensibilities to share news and shitpost.
DO NOT POST ABOUT REAL LIFE OR COOL ACTIVITIES.
This is a shitposting website and the more we forget that the faster we run towards disaster.
Internet is srs bzns, hexbear is not.
But also it IS fed shit to organise a meetup. Don't do that. Join an org. Make real friends. Play board games. Form affinity groups. Use your imagination from there.
We have had a warrant canary for years: https://hexbear.net/code_of_conduct
Hexbear anonymizes IPs in the database and scrubs metadata from images uploaded to it.
Maybe this is well known but I'm curious, how do the users know that something like that is legit? As far as I can tell it's just text on a website that can say anything regardless of what's happened behind the scenes.
Oh shit. My bad.
Thank you for your work. Do you think I should delete my whole post, edit out the misinformation or just leave it as is so people can see me being a cringe dumbass?
edit: fuck I feel silly now, I was literally re-reading the CoC the other day and must have just not reached the bottom of the page or something.
up to you, it's not cringe it shows how we could do better at transparency. thank you for the comment
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