• Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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        Of course he can… But then it’s as simple as a DDoS attack to shut it down. He wouldn’t want to host it on his own equipment, because there is a huge possibility for attack. He can pay for a server, but I assume he’d just setup the one. Unless he pays for a distributed server setup, there would be a single point of failure, and a single server to overwhelm. He can use CloudFlare, but then CloudFlare can decide they don’t like his content either, and just block access altogether.

        All of those things are much harder with an existing website with a larger infrastructure, and content other than his own posts.

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          Well said… It would be difficult to match the load balancers larger sites have. Cost, resources, etc. Side note: fuck cloudflare.

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          He could host a Tor Hidden Service or an I2P eepsite. Still possible to DDoS, but a bit harder. But then you’re missing out on 99% of spreading possibilities.

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            Tor is a good idea. There are plenty of people that would happily seed the repository to spite Microslop

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      I2P would be fine. They can ddos the service to an extent, but they’d just have to leave it there forever.

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      Plebbit, they don’t moderate anything AFAIK (with predictable results)

    • 🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      *they

      the researcher’s pronouns and such are unknown at this time as they have remained anonymous

      assuming male as default for everyone leads to trans people getting misgendered and is just generally a shitty out-of-touch thing to do

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        I don’t mind being corrected, but calling an honest mistake a shitty thing to do makes me just want to get defensive and not be receptive to what you’re actually saying.

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        Have you considered the possibility that aggressively interjecting pronoun arguments into unrelated conversations and implying people are shitty and out of touch is eroding public support for trans rights?