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?

or ... write once

Maybe it's a Jewish kitten

Still cute though

I think kittens did the Holocaust

meowocaust

It's an obvious choice, because nobody would have suspected them.

right though on steem you can "edit" within 7 days. You dont really edit, you make another post with the same reference which shows up by default, you can in principle check the history of course.

Kittens are cute, kittens in hats are cuter, kittens in yarmulkes = epic?

I thought we are talking about the JQ.

OK, meow this is epic.

If we can't even talk about the JQ here, I am going to go back to Gab.

I mean, the JQ was answered...

the answer wasnt completed but...

It's crazy they locked up that granny in Germany.