JustSo

In principle yes

What does "lemonizing" mean btw?

edit: I missed the discourse when luigi's politics were uncovered, heard about it elsewhere.

No, we're still as open as any pseudonymous clearnet forum with anonymous read access. ANY malicious actor could do more damage to the site (a banned user for example, or a right wing troll crew) at any time without even exposing themselves to us.

This is not a forum for serious organising of the sort of activity that would draw state/federal/national/transnational cop attention.

But the volcel police are always watching.

i swear on my dead homies Marx, Mao and Uncle Ho. If ANYONE takes this seriously and does this I will be extremely fucking disappointed.

Deleting the post at this point would not be in anyone's interest. This happened.

It should be locked and archived in c/badposting and linked to as a reminder during future education efforts of the sorts of things a careless person might think is totally harmless because they don't face the same threats that other users on the federated network of sites do.

Please take a moment to recognise that FOIA requests are issued by journalists, weirdos and random youtubers who think they're breaking a story, all the time, pursuing random bullshit that leads nowhere.

Further reflect on the Snowden leaks and the much higher probability that the most vulnerable users here are probably outside of the imperial core. I'm thinking mainly people living under parallel surveillance due to local action in places where the cops don't fuck around and use nation-state scale contracting agencies do their data work for them.

Also consider smaller five-eyes nations known to trade and share in mass surveillance efforts, many of whom have domestic political toy issues and more investment in surveillance than their material threats would warrant. Many users from these nations have to consider whether their local federal intelligence agency is feeding hexbear through a heuristic search system looking for someone to make an example out of to win an election.

And consider that none of this is a real threat if you are not actually doing anything. Which none of us are. We are all shitposting about the news and learning (mostly through osmosis, tbh) about economic theory.

Finally consider that you declared yourself "not an opsec guy" so if you mean you don't know about or practice good opsec hygiene and threat modelling etc, then let me reassure you that this is really like, not actually a major fuckup that puts hexbear at great risk, without some incredibly coincidental bad luck in the mix.

If you mean "I am not the one to harp on about opsec like a bore" then I respect your restraint, but you could do an effortpost to help educate people to be wiser about how they use the site, the risks using a site like this poses, how to accurately assess the risk and whether defensive steps need to be taken and if so how far down the rabbit hole they'd need to go to continue posting here.

Otherwise you ARE being that opsec guy and in my estimate, are overreacting to a funny blunder.

I am comfortable telling you, truthfully, that I shitpost about assassinating CEOs, live in one of what I consider, the riskier parts of the world to make "terroristic threat" jokes on the internet as far as getting to be left alone by our feds and that I do it all from my home IP address. I'm engaging in classic social media fed-baiting when I do this. I have nothing to hide, I'm squeaky clean and just curious to see if I ever get a knock on the door and a boring interview.

Maybe you see it differently, but please ease up. I really don't think this is grounds for moderator intervention except to move the whole fuckin thread to c/badposting. Casting aspersions on the mod team's reaction or rhetorically forcing them to make a decision in line with your ban request, is over the top.

So, I think, is going in on the poster who has pretty much humiliated themself at this point without guile or smug defense of their actions, unmasked their HB account and has otherwise acted in accordance with the actions of someone who made a reasonably harmless (or actually kind of hilarious) "misstep" according to any reasonable opsec analysis of the situation.

I could write an expose on HB tomorrow and send it to a news site and draw more attention than this did. We're federated for fuck sake.

Sorry. I hate that I'm sounding heated at this point because we had a great exchange in another thread yesterday and I enjoy your posts which is the most honest and least weird way to express the sentiment of "I like this person in the community" I can think of in this sort of community.

I'm just trying to mediate with my perspective as a "reality check" (that vibes ableist and/or condescending but I don't know a better turn of phrase, not intended, I apologise if this is offensive) here and hopefully turn the heat down a little.

I will not take the bait.
Bait is the mind-killer.
Bait is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my bait.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the bait has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

not that anybody's asked

31/12/2018:
Dear diary,
once again, the earth completes the 365.4 rotations from a point in time chosen randomly by the foolish ancestors of the fools I am stuck on this planet with. And once again I posted my cool bit about how having fun is ignorant.
Once again, my cuttingly witty and acerbic observation has gone under appreciated on social media and the incurious masses go about their night of celebration like clowns.
I shall be going to bed early this year, instead of refreshing my feed all night (fool me thrice! ha!) and accidentally hearing the fireworks as the clock strikes twelve o'clock.
Good night, fair record of my thoughts, my only true companion.

Yeah I saw a graph like yesterday, it's at least 3 times larger than China's expenditure by my estimate. Then China's is like 10 times larger than the next largest (go china, go!)

Is it China's fault if their economic model is more efficient and effective than silly old "democratic" capitalism? It's embarrassing for the US that they spend so much to fill so few pockets and get so little in return.

Based. New world police please, American cops keep shooting bystanders n shit.

It's dry snitching at worst. Do we have an explicit policy or rule about unilateral off-site action that leads or implicates hexbear?

We probably should, ideally, but this is basically an open forum on the clearnet so it would just be an exercise in good discipline and education for the future heroes of the revolution that spring from our ashes. This user simply goof'd and we should have a chuckle about it and never do it again unless we have a damn good reason to like if the warrant canary sings. Even then I would leave those decisions in the hands of other comrades and dip out. (hopefully reunite elsewhere from a distant proxy and a properly compartmentalised profile and identity)

This draws attention to the need for better education and reminders to be mindful that our users are global, some of them live within very real live threat matrices, and some of them are feds. Ie. don't make a decision after weighing it against your own threat model but imagine the most vulnerable and furtive user and act in accordance with protecting their safety.

lol I'm sorry if I baited you into any bullshit over my post, but I am grateful you revealed yourself and took the heat off my post's potential to start inter-site suspicion and conflict.