I think it's spelled Juan Turd.
Posted on 08/11/2018 11:34:02 AM PDT by jimjohn
I’m too busy to even write these days, and I’m hoping there are other tech savvy people talking privately about now. It’s time for an alternative social/information medium to rival the others.
No need to go into details about what’s been happening out here. You’re all seeing. And I don’t care what you think of who, or the latest double-standard out there. What I can say that is action is not taken, the powers-that-be will seek to silence all opposition. And if that does not bother you, read your history about what comes next…
Full disclosure: My current title is that of Lead Software Engineer. I run a team of 3 to 4 contracting teams at one time. I also have an extensive background in the media industry, although many who have followed my writings already knew this.
With that said, I hardly have time to do any other side-work, but I think I know what it would take on a technical level to replace the big social media giants, or at least build an alternative platform(s). There are others of course, but I suspect the number of folks in the industries mentioned above nationwide could probably fit in one grade school auditorium (I would love to be wrong about that).
If someone is working on this now, Godspeed to them. They clearly have more time than I. If not, then we’ll need to get to work. No platform should be allowed to be single point of failure. The new wrinkle in this ongoing warfare is that software and [old-school] marketing won’t be enough. There is also the issue of hardware and middle-ware that to a large degree, has been monopolized.
Financial Incentives? To put it bluntly, someone(s) on our side has the potential to be the next billionaire. How? When Real Americans start leaving these monopolies in droves for the new alternative media. Fussing about it or pointing fingers doesn’t resolve the issue. Also this effort will take more than just a bunch of geeks/nerds like us banging our software code. Marketers, business experts, red-tape handlers, and folks with media background could all have a place in this. Retired? Something you’ve done in the past?
I have initiated conversations with like-minded people within my network. Others should do the same. My first few calls drew immediate interest. We all start with the same belief: The first step to resolving a problem is to admin that said problem exists in the first place. And doing nothing is NOT a winning strategy.
Perhaps this opinion can start a public/private discussion on this.
Just my $0.02 jimjohn – OUT.
https://mewe.com is a fine facebook replacement and the CEO is a patriot who is sickened by the likes of zuckerburg.
https://gab.ai is an ok replacement for twitter but it’s a bit of an echo chamber of alt-right and actual white supremacists. It’s also kind of high maintenance in that when someone follows you, you see their posts until you mute them. Anyone can follow anyone and newbies or people trying to push their youtube channel follow everyone. They spend a lot of time just looking for new people to follow so they get exposure.
bitchute.com and real.video are decent youtube replacements.
Wont be hard to make a viable platform.
Just model it after BitTorrent.
Eliminate the central server, and you eliminate the control.
Everyone becomes the server. Everyone is the client. There will be some people that will devote their own home servers and always-connected PCs to “seeding” profiles so that they are always available.
Make it an open-source protocol that anyone can make a client app or program to connect into on any platform they want. It can be as elaborate or spartan as the individual creator wants.
That’s the biggest problem with new alternatives is that the alt-right losers spend all damn day fouling them with just pure trash, leaving any normal person that shows up clicking out of that ASAP.
I think the only way around that is that something is going to have to come along and start out as “invite only” like what happened when Gmail first debuted.
I think replacing Youtube would be the best first step.
Youtube is the Ultimate host.
Facebook and Tweeter are more often the “Front end”, advertising platforms for information.
I’ve seen a few Conservative Websites try to embed video from Bitchute with less than optimal results. It doesn’t work.
Um ... You're posting on it.
"Alt-Tech" is already being worked on by many people. The biggest problems they are running into are that 1) these are natural monopolies and 2) the upstarts that become credible threats to the establishment have trouble getting deplatformed at a higher level (cut off from banking, website hosting, etc.) It's one thing to try to take on a big social media site. Building your own alternatives for the internet and international banking would be an even bigger job.
I generally have one browser tab open on Twitter (following a tailored set of people) that functions as my main news feed, a second browser tab open on Gab (where I follow the people who have been kicked off of Twitter), and then I check FR a few times a day. I have a second browser (slimjet) just for videos—from YouTube by default and using uncensored YouTube alternatives for news sources and commentators who have been kicked off of YouTube.
In my alternative media database I keep track of which tech sites these people are using. Every day or so, I'm making additional entries as these people migrate to alt-tech sites to host their content. Some migrate as they get banned; but many are doing so pre-emptively so they'll have an alternate presence set up for when they do get banned.
There’s hundreds of social media sites. Pick one. Invite your friends. It’s not the software, it’s the people.
Before there was social media for the Millennial retards, the tech savvy had newsgroups and IRC.
Just so you are aware Much is oft is threatening to shut down Gab
I like MeWe a lot. I don’t get there as often as I should.
Also, broadjam.com is another youtube alternative.
Yup, well aware. Seems we Real Americans are hit with information at such a capacity where older things tend to drop off the radar.
The concept of censoring or shutting down by mob rule goes back years. Fox News experienced this decades ago. Or just ask that old local alternative newspaper you don’t see around any more. I personally know of one big newspaper that would purposely write hit jobs pieces on companies that would advertise with their competitor. It was so underhanded most folks didn’t even see it for what it was.
They just thought it was news.
How many talk show hosts or TV shows with good ratings got forces off the air? You can go back years.
This latest news is just the latest chapter.
bookmarked for later...
I think it's spelled Juan Turd.
I posted it on facebook but haven’t seen any “friends” on mewe yet. I and they are from Massachusetts but I got away when I was 19 and moved South and I’m probably more into politics than they are.
Doing so takes lots of money - FR is very small scale compared to what you’re talking about and to keep it actually FRee, requires constant fund-raising. Anything that takes in a lot of outside money eventually becomes tainted.
Holy moly. I’m from Mass and moved to FL when I was 19.
I just did the same thing and also haven’t seen any ‘friends’ show up at mewe.
I hope some people step forward to create competition. Now is the time. The Big Tech is on it’s knees.
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