I am still maintainer for a Mind API package for Python.

But I had two of my bots/utility accounts axed by Minds staff now, so I kind of gave up on it. :(

It's pretty stupid, because they are infected with bots, but me writing a useful bot (you could @ it and it could generate memes, etc.) was somehow "abusive".

I can already see them turning into another Facebook when they get popular, but I guess that's the lifecycle of tech on the Internet.

we could have prevented this

BTW, even Twitter lets you build bots and gives you a developer API, so, in a way, they are more draconian than Twitter even.

How could we have prevented it?

use the internet like the founding fathers meant it to be used

Ah ...

green text w3m

Yeah, I guess if we had built some mechanism for that right away, the entire Internet could look differently now.

Maybe TOR and onion hosting could be a solution to all of this.

I had a blog on the dark, dark, dark web.

it still leaves one person in control of everything :v

Yes, but can that person be pressured?

nobody will delete loli from the blockchain 👌🏿

I'm not sure what the feds would do with something illegal in the blockchain.

i'm pretty sure there's cp in bitcoin blockchain by now :^)

They might just go crazy and arrest anyone who hosts that blockchain.

They might require the entire business to shut down and revert the blockchain to the state before that offending entry.

Or, anyone who accesses that part of the blockchain and is caught storing those images on their computer will be arrested, a little bit the way it is now. You can find those images, after all, but only when you access and/or redistribute them are you liable.

But yeah, in a busy network, once there are transactions on top of that, you basically can't really revert the blockchain to cleanse it anymore.

🤔

BTW, looks like I am veteran tier now.

I don't know. It's crazy to think about it.

Trying to out-polite some Asian guy while getting on the bus. I did not succeed.

should've said you were canadian

you'd win by memefault

lellerskates

If you lost a war against Canada, you would still be sad, but you wouldn't feel so bad about it.

They would probably apologize for winning.

unless it's about hockey

or maple syrup

and then let you migrate and leech welfare

😦

it's true

but, i would die before i get service

lel

https://i.imgur.com/IzbqFtE.mp4

Majestic creature

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