I think it's BS that sites like Minds advertise with decentralization.

Just because storage is decentralized does not mean control is.

The most important debate in over a hundred years

yeah

They can still delete whatever they want.

right

I actually lost 2 channels on Minds.

EVERYTHING deleted. Even Twitter gave me more warning and recourse.

And gab started deleting, too

I had automated some fun stuff, like posting memes and GIPHY GIFs with their REST API.

I didn't even hide the fact that it was a bot, because people enjoyed using it.

Which is among the reasons why i didnt get into gab to begin with. They can delete and if they can they eventualy will

Then, some jerk reported it and it got Hillary'd.

And now did.

What was the motivation for deleting? Were they pressured by outside groups? Was it something they didn't like?

They were pressured

No, they just didn't like it's a bot.

Gab that is

No, Minds.

yeah yeah

I wanted to know in both cases

I asked Andrew Torba about bots. He seemed fine with it.

we were both talking i dont know who he asked

Anti-bot discrimination is overwhelming these days.

They haven't released their API client, yet, but I wrote my own by reverse engineering the calls in the debugger.

Especially ethnically-Russian bots.

everyone here is a russian bot

stop discriminating against russians

whereas a blockchain wont be censored. There is childporn in bitcoin transaction memos and it will remain there.

I wrote it all in Python and dumped it onto GitHub.

You can still hide posts, though, even with blockchain.

Sure

But, clients can ignore it, I guess.

Right. On steemit by default posts which got heavily flagged show i think the title and a button to show it regardless

Oh, cool.

I should check it out.

I want to get a colo in Russia just so I can have an actual Russian bot.

Blockchain is a neat data structure.

When you post a kitten picture on Gab and 30 seconds later the discussion is about the JQ

It's basically a read only register.

was the kitten jewish?