Forgive me, I meant not to say there shouldn't be mods at all. There's absolutely legal liability to be considered. But enlightening conversation does not always appear beautiful at first glance; I'd rather see encouragement to culture rather than enforcement of culture.

Thank you! Salman Rushdie has many amazing things to say on the subject of free speech. And he would know well; an entire nation called for him to be murdered merely for his words.

Thank you! I wrote this because I've seen the First Amendment argument several times now, wrt Peepeth's moderation.

I think there are ways to accomplish Peepeth's greater goals without resorting to mods, etc., which may alienate people who can benefit from those goals.

Regardless, I implore you to consider the diversity of thought you risk alienating. I understand the desire for considered, thoughtful conversation, but there are means to accomplish this without strict moderation, or centralized authority.

Will you be replacing the text on the dApp library? This seems misleading based on what you've said in this video.

And I could not be prouder of them for it.

Thank you so much~ The reason I chose to end on "figure this out" was in reference to the President's tweet; daily writing my essays and chronicling the news I do, this is how I fight.

@bevan @callmegwei @abcoathup @Fulcrum @Brando @ROMANSTENNINE @talkingtree

I've written an essay regarding free speech. I plead with you all to read it and consider what it says, even if you disagree.

https://sevvie.ltd/essays/stop-conflating-free-speech-first-amendment/

Ideas are like seeds. Burying them does not get rid of them; it only makes them grow hardier and spread roots.

Personally, I would like to see it as opt-in; an option under settings to roll up political, work-unsafe, or both kinds of posts.

But aye, currently, the implementation is very limited, requires a lot of clicking, and does not consider previously-unrolled messages.

Exactly. I completely understand why people are upset; deplatforming and other forms of suppression have been a growing problem. Hell, I've been QFD'd on Twitter, and shadowbanned on occasions.

They have every right to be upset. But calm discourse will create solutions.

As I said in the previous post; if @bevan wants help on this project, I and many others would be more than glad to help him. I understand the closed-source nature of the project as it is now, but open-sourcing the frontend and democratizing development could do wonders.

Respectfully, many people found their way here because the platform presented itself as "unstoppable and uncensorable." Judging their response to a design/development decision they disagree with as "overreacting" is very dismissive.

If Bevan wants help, I want to help him.

I agree with this quite a bit. I've been saying it for a while; we should be able to opt-in or opt-out of having nsfw or political posts hidden.

My big pupper is super sleepy, as an aside. We took a long walk this morning, and I think it was just as hard on her as it was on me.

Certainly. I'm arguing the point because I want to see Peepeth succeed both as a chain and a frontend to that chain, rather than succumbing to fragmentation and bubbles of ideology.

This post does not contain the n-s-f-w tag, nor does it reply to an n-s-f-w post. But it is marked as both pol-itics and n-s-f-w. https://peepeth.com/Fulcrum/peeps/QmRjekBsAT8ha3AE6YbjRibE7qz1qStescjNsDx9pgXayP

Oh aye. But this is why I am arguing the larger point; if Peepeth wishes to be THE social network on the Ethereum network, it might wish to consider remaining agnostic, and open-sourcing the frontend.

They did it to @Fulcrum's post. They've done it to @ChiliMac's posts.

This presumes that interactions made in public forums are "private interactions." But from the precedent of Marsh v Alabama, the more a corporation opens its private property to public use, the more individual rights circumscribe the corporation's rights.

@balresch You're mistaken about one thing; there are people who are able to mark posts as n-s-f-w or pol-itics.

Forgive me for not replying directly to your post, but the infectious nature of that tag is a feature I wish to avoid entirely.

I didn't use the word shadowbanning, because I don't see it as shadowbanning.

It is, however, sweeping matters under the rug, and only those matters from one side of the aisle. There have been many peeps of a po-litical nature which are not forceably hidden: Anti-Trump.

I have seen many peeps with poli-tics of one vain have the cover added to their posts afterward by a third party. But peeps with poli-tics of the opposite vain are not hidden from users.

If the rule is not applied equally, it should not be applied. Besides, we have a mute button

You misrepresent my words. This frontend is currently the primary and only frontend, but if this frontend uses similar tactics to Twitter and Facebook, it is no alternative at all to those driven away from those platforms.

I know what has been said before. "If you don't like it, you can make your own frontend." But this is getting it backwards. If you wish for a frontend that hides from you what you do not like, this should be the alternative and not the primary.

The firehose should be unimpeded.

There is a choice that can be made, here. Peepeth can be a chain for social media, or it can be THE chain for social media.

The difference comes by choosing to be agnostic about the content, and trusting people to curate for themselves. If you curate for us, we have no freedom.

"Unstoppable and uncensorable," is a dishonest means to market this platform in blurbs on dApp lists.

Defending the decision to hide material because it's not "liked", even n-s-f-w material, when the mute functionality exists, is dangerous precedent.

Think bigger. Be real.

If Peepeth isn't careful, it will become another echo-chamber, limited by its idea of what social media "should" be. Denying the unfortunate realities of human interaction, or sweeping them under a rug, will not make things better. // @Fulcrum @Brando

This line never ceases to put a smile on my face.

You are nothing short of amazing sir. I'll be forking today, to play around. I'd like to add some test coverage in the very least.

I actually wrote an essay about Cherán earlier this month! It's an amazing place. https://sevvie.ltd/essays/cheran-the-town-that-ousted-the-political-parties/

The Michael Cohen Plea: Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing

https://sevvie.ltd/politics/michael-cohen-plea-sound-fury-signifying-nothing/

Forgive my quiet today; I've not been feeling that well.

One thing about being ill and remaining still, though; you get the time you need to think at a slow and patient pace. And I have been thinking, thinking quite a bit indeed...

It'll have to be in a few hours; I have yet to sleep. But gladly! If we talk, we make a thread I can use for testing purposes ^.^

Not so much a front-end as an interface for displaying and archiving threads. I want to be able to capture and display long conversations for posterity's sake.

Welcome to Peepeth, Tia! Great gif, btw <3

Thank you for this! I've been putting off a peepeth project because I haven't had the time to attempt to reverse-engineer the frontend myself.

As it's the anniversary of Vicki Weaver's death, during the siege of Ruby Ridge, I wrote a twitter thread in remembrance of the story.

https://twitter.com/sevvierose/status/1032135928352043008

I should have been more clear; this is closer to my intent than what I said. As someone with a few rare health concerns, being sure my doctor knows more than "they checked 'history of cancer'" is very important.

I absolutely agree. Thank you for sharing; I'm sure a lot of people share your frustration with the repetitious forms.

Welcome to Peepeth! And yeah, it was very awesome of @ShooterJennings to shout out Peepeth on Joe Rogan.

Thank you for this! I was mostly thinking aloud, as I'm tackling a number of these problems currently, without the support of investors or external sources.

I have a passion, you might say. ^.^

E-voting. Decentralized medical records. Authorship/ownership. Security. Data integrity. Authentication. Individual-contribution economies. These are the blockchain systems I'm working toward.

Cryptocurrency is great. Trustless personal crypto-sovereignty systems are the future.

Everyone in the country's phones act as validators to the chain, and everyone has a copy of the entire voting record that they could audit for themselves. Votes are signed with the vital records block which acts as the genesis of your medical record blockchain, restricting fraud.

Now imagine it's time to vote. Instead of the voting machine being the single record, you connect your phone or tablet to an ad-hoc network at a voting location and your phone "mines" your vote onto a chain shared and validated across the country.

When you leave the hospital, your medical record blockchain is held by you, and a segment of that chain is held by the hospital for their own audit records. But the data is never visible on the public internet; it's entirely controlled by you.

Imagine walking into a hospital. You connect your phone to an ad-hoc network and with a button-press, sign a request for your records. The vitals monitor acts as a miner, filling in a side-chain with your heart rate & O2 levels. Doctor's computers "mine" their data to your chain.

We talk about wallets, but I think blockchains will give way to many other "real world" concepts to be easier transferred out of the hands of a central authority and into the ownership of the individual.

Wallets. Vital and medical records. Receipts. Decentralize it all.

A blockchain is not just a data structure; it's a data structure and automated validation network combined. This is what gives it strength, and this is why I have so much interest in developing non-financial blockchains, such as decentralized medical data blockchains.