@Andrew Anglin I miss Daily Stormer. I was just thinking, the other day, that if it were still around, we'd be reading articles about Ramaswarmy falling apart in the Ohio gubernatorial election, and you'd have a running joke where Amy Acton is "Amy 'Aryan Action' Actung", a White Nationalist running against Ramaswarmy out of sheer hatred for the pajeet race.

There'd probably be a satirical deepfake or two of her reading out a hilariously racist speech, and a couple indian media outlets who didn't know you were on the blacklist would pick it up and run it as if it were a real story, and there'd be a whole Ebola Chan - level shitshow over it. It'd be so kino.

The other approach, nowadays, is to get a fine-tuned or abliterated LLM and just have it do the moderation/curation work associated with a site, although that gets you into an arms race with spammers.

I've been playing with the idea of making imageboards readable again by having Qwen or something scrape threads and tag posts with user-specified filterable categories like "porn", "bait", "shilling", and so on, defined and with examples, on a backend server. A browser extension would then fetch the results and collapse posts that users don't want to see. Planning to try it with one of the archiving sites and put together a prototype some time.

Trying to set up an anonymous Twitter account. Want to buy premium so it doesn't get insta-shadowbanned, so I need an anonymous credit card. Sifted through a bunch of dead crypto card services from 2020 that now demand a picture of you and your government ID. Dug up a Chinese site used by Hong Kongers that might work. Will have to sift through Telegram, if not. Then I'll have to encode any remotely edgy posts as images and figure out a way to adversarially noise them so the images don't parse as edgy to any automated filters. Ten years ago you just put in an email address and you could talk to people on the internet.

I think China might actually be a freer country at this point. There's an explicit list of things you can't say, and you know if you're banned, and you can just give people money if you want them to render you a service. No guns, but also no rapefugees that necessitate them.