I get your concerns man, I really do.
I am well aware of the pitfalls ahead, but I am in a special situation that affords me immunity from the things you have outlined. I won't go into much detail, but I feel that I am one of the few people who can successfully navigate this due to my experience in the legal world, and my unique funding situation.
Time shall tell. Sign up to the forums and post something interesting.
By not needing to be profitable.
No advertisers, no deplatform.
I don't really, but no one else seems to be able to.
Check my replies above and feel free to add your take.
If you want to know the truth, I just don't believe that "Social Media" can be saved long-term.
Using reddit as an example, a new user can fire up their own completely hidden subreddit, invite a bunch of users to it, and start serving up CP, all before anyone can notice it's even happening. These types of services are just prone to festering, plain and simple. Forums and traditional websites are WYSIWYG, no easy way to hide that CP (I specifically use lossy compression of all images after upload to try and stamp out data hidden in image files). I am certainly open to more discussion though. (Come register and lets chat?)
As for the PP side, you would need to stand up your own bank to truely do what you want, which isn't actually hard to do, I know a few folks in the biz and it's honestly just a capitol issue. You'll need around $15mm to start, but after that you just rent a FISERV box and your off to the races. Sadly, this isn't something that is easy enough to fix for me to focus on at the moment.
Send me a PM with your thoughts on an audit. I have very functional knowledge of pen testing concepts, but don't have the knowledge to execute in a meaningful way.
Thanks for all the words.
I'm looking for people with something to say, but don't want to waste days writing and editing their article just to have it removed or delisted from the news site the minute someone complains (if it would even be posted at all).
I'm thinking News, Politics, Technology, Hobbies/Trades, Sporting, and Culture are good catagories to start off with.
Thoughts?
I'll shoot you a message for sure, thanks.
Explain a bit about the payment issue you forsee. I am self funding this and have the means to privately fund it for years to come without needing external income. Outside of that, BTC can be used for lightweight payment processor bypass, but it shouldn't be necessary anyway.
The real issue, like you mentioned, is the bandwidth/colo issue. Let me assure you, that I did not go and rent some colo space online and pop a desktop on a shelf on it's side. I have enterprise hardware buried away somewhere, and while you have shown how fragile the charade can be, I'm confident that with a combination of tunnels, I can truely hide the hardware by the time it becomes necessary.
Outside of that, I hope to be able to build a community that is strong enough to move past the concept of needing a centralized website if all else fails. I'm prepared to move off-internet if need be.
I've banned access to xmlrpc.php from the outside altogether. Can you verify?
You don't have to be a dick to make me hear you.
I own the hardware, I own the software, only I know where the server sits.
Once moved to Epik (like bitchute), it will take a court order to remove content, which I will fight in person till the bitter end.
I hate to admit this, but I'm actually IN Goonswarm...
Not sure why the downvotes (probably because it's a bit hard to decipher your advice), but I do understand your points, and I'll look to them for direction.
Thanks man!
I hope the mods allow this, if not that's fine, just remove.
I wont be using my old username for obvious reasons, but I have laid the foundation for a news site that can withstand the current state of absolute shit that the world finds itself in today. I have dedicated hardware running in a datacenter behind CloudFlare, but will be moving to Epik's CND after chatting a bit with Rob.
I know that I can't write, I'm better at the backend stuff, but there are a few articles I am releasing over the next few weeks (I wont spam them here), which is why I am dropping in on a couple of spots I frequent looking for people with functional spines and something to say.
Have a look around, we have a forum ready to go (same board IGN uses, without the macho man abbey savage porn) if anyone is interested in trying to recreate a 2003 era SomethingAwful, or a pre-null-meltdown Kiwi Farms. Ya know, intelligent long-form discussions.
I've put thousands into this project, and I don't intend to stop, join if you like, we might be able to do some good.
I'll prove you wrong. ;)