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I have an update...

The gist:

• A group of volunteers from several of the largest forums on the platform has formed.
  
• They are investigating what it would take to pursue a legal route of compliance, the technical measures that this involves (new moderation tools, etc)
  
• They are also investigating what continuity looks like for the platform, i.e. a CIC to own the platform, and technical people to run the platform
  
• As part of all of this, there will still need to be sustainable funding... a new fundraiser will likely open in a few weeks, once a few necessary pre-requisites are taken care (registering the CIC, opening accounts, etc)
  
• I ( @Velocio ) will still step down, and will hand over all authority to this group, including domain names, all account access, etc, etc... the plan currently is to continue on the existing implementation of the infrastructure so there is no anticipated downtime
  
• Whilst the details are forming and will be announced soon, the 20-30 people involved are all core members of LFGSS, PignoleFixe and Islington CC, and have an abundance of the right skills, they are long-standing members whom nearly all of you know, and I fully trust them in this and would not lightly give all that has been created if I did not believe in the people involved in this to do the right thing and continue to move forward in the same direction that all of these forums and the platform has been moving in
  
  

This is GOOD NEWS :)

If the next two weeks goes well for this group in terms of starting to put things in motion then:

• They will need to do a fundraiser from mid-February onwards, to ensure that they have enough money to pay the bills after March 16th. Ideally they raise at least 3-6 months worth.
  
• To support this any monies left in the PayPal when that fundraise opens, will be donated to the fundraise... I still plan to cancel all existing PayPal donations so that the new collective has full control and can offer full transparency around the funds.
  
  

I'll lock this thread, please follow it for updates and I will reply when there are some updates to share.

We have an update... and I will start a new closed thread for it.

Gist:

• A group of volunteers from several of the largest forums on the platform has formed.
  
• They are investigating what it would take to pursue a legal route of compliance, the technical measures that this involves (new moderation tools, etc)
  
• They are also investigating what continuity looks like for the platform, i.e. a CIC to own the platform, and technical people to run the platform
  
• As part of all of this, there will still need to be sustainable funding... a new fundraiser will likely open in a few weeks, once a few necessary pre-requisites are taken care (registering the CIC, opening accounts, etc)
  
• I ( @Velocio ) will still step down, and will hand over all authority to this group, including domain names, all account access, etc, etc... the plan currently is to continue on the existing implementation of the infrastructure so there is no anticipated downtime
  
• Whilst the details are forming and will be announced soon, the 20-30 people involved are all core members of LFGSS, PignoleFixe and Islington CC, and have an abundance of the right skills, they are long-standing members whom nearly all of you know, and I fully trust them in this and would not lightly give all that has been created if I did not believe in the people involved in this to do the right thing and continue to move forward in the same direction that all of these forums and the platform has been moving in
  
  

This is GOOD NEWS :)

I did fleetingly think about such a thing. But for it to work I suspect you'd actually need to know the owners, i.e. real identity, name, address, etc... and running the database of 20k+ owners becomes a full time job, as well as the obvious data privacy issues.

Bitwarden is universally the best (as in, least reviled and most widely supported).

1Password seems to be better in the Apple World.
ProtonPass is comparable to Bitwarden.

Honestly though... Bitwarden wins.

Anyhow... there are 3 (three) groups who seem to want to help Microcosm continue.

1. A group of about 15-20 people from the core of LFGSS has formed from @skydancer 's ask in the End is Nigh forum... and are considering options.
   
2. Islington CC have technical capability and are considering running their own instance of Microcosm.
   
3. PignoleFixe have a few people who are technically capable of running the platform... and of course they are not at all concerned by the OSA because they are Europeans, with European users, and would host in Europe.
   
   

There is no "export site and spin up new infra" capability... I can delete sites, and object storage is hard to handle (it's all or nothing)... so I'd still recommend keeping the core instance, but I'm already deleting the long-tail of seldom used or low-traffic sites that could trivially move to WhatsApp groups... I hope to get this platform to a core of perhaps 3-5 sites that want to survive and may possess the technical capability and people to make it work out.

Well it's all going to get worse before anything gets better as the Govt announce their plan to let AI in public services.

AI is built on historical data, and the gist is that it takes that and constructs a model of probability and then takes current context and says "this is probably the answer" with a dice roll thrown in to make this seem more human... that's in essence how ChatGPT and other LLMs (which are currently accepted as "AI") function.

It should be obvious to all that they can only say "this is probably the answer based on what has been historically the answer"... meaning that institutional racism, ableism, sexism... this is all baked in and will be reinforced.

Unfortunately Ofcom's hand-wavey guidance, WRT the OSA, about the tools that will be used to detect illegal material is based on a direction of thought that concedes that today there isn't a solution and that it "will be solved by new AI tools".

I have 180 unread messages 🤷‍♀️

I can process your deletion request now... please do not sign in again as that will create a new account.

Oh, thank you.

It would not have occurred to me to do that... I just edited the first post to clarify for future ones.

Hmm... /me goes back and edits the first post to make it clear to journalists to not use masculine pronouns throughout.

Unless you're saving it, then it's your problem :)

They were blocked until I lifted the blocks to allow archivers in.

But clearly some of other bots are doing the snitching.

The person is aware, and has already seen it themselves via the place it's being listed, and will come into the DM soon (I guess they're at work, and... doing work?).

NOTICE: if you're the person I just text messaged, this conversation ^ is about you. Check your DMs.

DM me the details of who it is, and if I have a way to figure out who it is I shall let them know.

A couple here but lots of these shut down come the main event
https://www.streameast.gd/main-event/boxing/910602/2

https://www.streameast.gd/main-event/boxing/910602/1

This has caused a thing to happen... see attached.

I don't believe a link is illegal, and I don't care about the consequences of being de-listed by Google.

This does show what happens when bots are allowed to read a forum though... which is a thing for me to bear in mind in future.