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You already know why you're reading this. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You already know why you're reading this.

I'll have to say that I'm a bit confused, and I really don't know what or why I'm reading this. Is this some Anonymous recruiting ad?

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  • [+] [S] -10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Fair. Plain version: yes, it's a recruiting call. We build free, open-source privacy tools and give them away, and we need people to run the infrastructure. The cryptic intro was the vibe check — you asking "what is this" instead of scrolling past means it worked.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    We build free, open-source privacy tools

    Didn't down vote, but what kind of privacy tools have you built? Being anonymous isn't really a 'club' per se, or people who 'join' and congregate in a central locale. It's more of a mind set where people globally anonymously contribute to whatever cause interests them, no?

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    • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I get what you're trying to do, and it's commendable.

    however...

    1000004093

    and for that reason, I'm out.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    Yeah, same. I mean, anonymous people, on a global basis have done some good things, and we can't over look some of the bad that have been perpetuated as well. However, I never really got the whole shtick. The whole 'expect us' specter is thick with Hollywood drama. The whole persona of a hooded 'anonymous agent' in a dimly lit room, setting at a bank of monitors, announcing 'I'm in! Enhance!' is just a little too much.

    Yes, we should conduct our lives online and offline in a private, secure, and as anonymous manner as possible, Yes we should protest governance that steps out of line or becomes over reaching and oppressive. But I think that can be accomplished without donning Guy Fawkes masks and invoking the whole persona that has been dramatized around anonymous.

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    • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Is this slop or spergposting? One answer gets a block; the other gets a block, but it's not personal, I just don't understand.

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    • [–] 6 points 5 months ago*

    So you fork open source projects, slap your logo onto them and claim they’re more private?

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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    This is some mr robot level bullshit spewed here

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    [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Why gratis and not libre?

    or does anon not know the difference between free and free?

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  • [–] [S] -4 points 5 months ago

    We named ourselves "Gratis" on purpose — free as in beer. The "free as in freedom" part is the source code, the reproducible builds, and the right to fork it. We do both. Pick a lane to be wrong in.

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    • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Good lord. If you're trying to recreate cicada 3301, it's not going well.

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    [–] 0 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Whats with the downvotes? As far as i can see this is legit.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I think this is a Rule 5 violation for this community, and maybe even Rules 3, 4, and 7.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    afaik its questionably centered on self-hosting, although anonymous might be called an advocate of digital rights. The title is a bit mysterious, but it is kind of fitting to the text and not "cherry picking". It just is not very informative, either.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    The latter part of Rule 3 is the issue:

    If it’s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

    There is exactly one sentence in the post which relates to self hosting, buried in the middle of a paragraph, and one which could be plausibly understood in two ways: 1) we (Anonymous) are recruiting the working-class people who maintain the infrastructure that keeps the world running, or 2) we (Anonymous) are seeking people that know how to build self-sufficient infrastructure. Only the latter might be vaguely self-hosting. And in no circumstance would I say the sentence is "obvious".

    I won't rules-lawyer the other points, but I repeat the old adage: when you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras. If a post is skirting multiple community rules, and the community is downvoting it into oblivion, then all signs point to a post that shouldn't be here.

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