The current darling of internet social media is upscrolled. Over a million new users in less than a month, bills itself as a free speech site.
They used Godaddy to register the domain name.
I wanna scream....
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This always happens. Some well-meaning, tech savvy doofus thinkgs he's gonna step up and be a hero with no legitimate idea of the shitstorm he's in for. I'm 100% sure that if you tried to warn them ahead of time they'd scoff, because in their minds all those other people deserved it, but not him. He was gonna do it right!
This shit's why our 8chan survived. We might not be heroes but at least we knew and honestly admitted what we were in for, and planned for it (and worse) from the start.
Can also learn some lessons from Gab on cancel proof hosting
the farms too
But these can be counted on one hand.
voat and 8chan pushed through, but that was with a lot of grit, and both are no longer what they started out as since 8chan was sold and voat was relaunched by a new team with backups of the original site's files, similar to Encyclopedia Dramatica after the original site was changed into Oh Internet!.
Weren't prepared for August 2019 though.
It also appears to be app-only, no computer access. Why do this if you are trying to include everyone? Can't share links to others unless they have the app I guess.
And many cell providers censor SMS/MMS communication
Upscrolled has already committed to censorship and setting up a safety and trust department.
Not sure how long they will survive until the ADL ethnically cleanses out all the palestinians
Go ahead, do a whois lookup on icann.com. See for yourself.
Someone care to ELI5 to a Luddite the significance of a new social media platform registering their domain on Godaddy?
Risk of getting deplatformed at the flick of a switch?
Signs of IT naivete & incompetence?
How could they not know?
Once I was doing backend dev for a local advertising company and the ad exec's nephew half my age was given the head of IT. He was fucking terrible. We didn't have a self hosted production environment. We developed on a subdomain (not even a different virtual server instance) of our live site (which was only accessed in office, so it had no need to be hosted online anyway!)
This was in 2014 when GoDaddy went down and took half the small business websites in the USA with it.