Ramble is an effort to also promote the use of alternative internets ie. not just https regular web.
The great thing about their setup is that it allows users from various anonymity networks to actually interact with one another in a seamless, transparent fashion. Someone browsing their Onion Service may be responding to a post made from the clearnet, and have their response upvoted from someone who agrees with their comment from the I2P eepsite while a Yggdrasil user is creating a forum. Regardless of the method you choose to access the Ramble website, you’d be interacting with people from outside of your network in a relatively unique fashion. You can login to your account through any network that you wish. Post on your phone using the clearnet website, come home, and hop on the I2P eepsite and you’ll have everything right there.
Another interesting feature is a fully transparent moderation log, showing any banned users or other deletions made (a bit like Aether does) with a reason. You only need to choose any username and password to get going, no e-mail or phone number requested to register.
See https://ramble.pw/f/ramble/3/welcome-to-ramble
#technology #alternativeto #reddit #ramble #privacy
It’s not just any reddit-like website. Although it has a focus on privacy (like lemmy.ml and raddle.me), what distinguishes ramble.pw from others is it’s run and operated by fascist sympathizers on principles of so-called “free speech”. In the first days/weeks of ramble.pw i took a look on there to see how that would turn out. The admin made it very clear they were 100% open to nazis, fascists and other hate groups, as long as they were not forced by law to remove it.
Free speech is something we may wish to defend (or not) but does not exist in practice. When your speech disturbs the people in power/privilege, then it is removed, and you face the consequences. Free speech has rarely protected anarchists, communists, feminists, queer and anti-colonization activists. In the United States, antimilitarist propaganda was illegal during WWI; here in France, there were entire laws (les lois scélérates) dedicated to making it illegal to promote anarchism. More recently, Jean-Marc Rouillan was condemned to a prison sentence for refusing to serve State propaganda about Daech on the radio, while artists and militants who denounce police crimes are often taken to courts for insulting police and country. So the Nation-States who promote free speech are in fact profoundly opposed to free speech in their foundations. “Free speech” is then used as a magic formula when dominant speech is under attack, but can never be invoked when minority speech is repressed.
Personally, i’m in favor of “free speech” in the sense that institutions of power should not have a say in what is legal to think/say, because that will always be used against minority struggles to shut them down. However as an individual claiming to offer nazis a space to organize and advertise their views in the name of free speech is at the very least delusional, if not outright manipulative. To be honest, i’d even be tempted to flag this article so we can get it removed from the lemmy.ml homepage. Not gonna do it though because we have a conversation here. But how do you all folks feel to have a link to a nazi website on our homepage?
Mandatory XKCD:
Just note I posted this link purely as a newly discovered (to me) social network (like I’ve done for as few other networks too). I’m not recommending one over the other at all. I’m still digging a bit deeper into it, and have now noticed Raddle as well. It is interesting to note the differences, and I’m sure anyone interested will get a feel for a good fit for themselves. Yes unfortunately networks will tend to be perceived as left, right or centre I suppose relative to one’s one’s beliefs.
Certainly in my own country (South Africa) we also have quite a few laws restricting any discrimination as well any threats of violence or insurrection. Personally I prefer to keep to good tech news myself ;-)