In light of the Kiwi Farms situation this is a discussion that we really need to have, and I think the demographic of this community in particular makes it a really good place to talk about this. I'm hoping that this thread can be of use to the admins of this site, and maybe even Kiwi Farms or anyone looking to keep a website up in the face of the kind of concerted troon attacks that Kiwi Farms is experiencing. I wanted to ask our more technically inclined users:
a) Is troon proofing a website possible?
b) If so how do you do it?
My understanding is that you need your own servers, a domain name, DDoS protection, and a way to protect against hackers. But this isn't my area of expertise and I may be missing something. In any case it would be necessary to troon proof every link in the chain. I'm interesting to hear what the community thinks about this.
Some of us are making an attempt at it. The big problem is a combination of governments tacitly allowing illegal attacks on lawful websites that they just don't like (nobody is gonna investigate the DDoS attacks against KF and no one will ever be prosecuted for it) and there being a near monopoly on open market DDoS prevention. Seriously Cloudflare is 99.999% of that market and the remaining .0001% is like 3 other companies, and ALL of them are cucks. So you have no means to protect yourself or be protected and the government won't protect you. Its Anarcho Tyranny Online, which should be the name of a cyberpunk MMO and not hard legal reality.
On our site we came up with our own traffic distribution ideas that provide a pseudo-DDoS mitigation effort - basically mini cloudflare, but its relatively expensive to operate. A few hundred dollars a month just for one site, not including costs of the site itself. And if we REALLY get slamma-jamma'd it would get even pricier as we scale it up. Josh apparently has a similar idea, but he's going to run into predictable problems that his model doesn't account for. Namely what do you do when your subnet gets blackhole'd by cucked upstream network providers and backbone peers. We're working on a peer-to-peer alternative that may help, and allow us to help other sites too, but people are going to have to get used o the idea of paying more money if you want free speech. This whole thing is a backdoor Shitlord Tax and the troons are the tax collectors.