Donald Trump’s media group released its TRUTH Social iOS app today in the U.S., but a scan of the app’s API using publicly available tools revealed that it already closed itself to registrations (also, the scan showed that its “proprietary account registration microservice” …
  • OsrsNeedsF2P
    66·
    3 years ago

    the scan showed that its “proprietary account registration microservice” is named “Pepe,” which is also the name of a meme with racist connotations).

    How to kill the credibility of your article in the opening paragraph

    • OnishiMyers
      201·
      3 years ago

      While I agree with the general concept, symbols change meaning, and the alt rights absorbtion of pepe, is kind of a thing. No obviously the comic had no offensive meaning when it was made, or when it was popularized.

      However now, when moderating discord channels etc. I see someone come in with a pepe picture… I know there’s a 99% chance I’m going to have to boot him as he’s inevitably going to start spouting racist nonsense (I don’t use the pepe to justify the boot, I wait for the person to start breaking the rules, which almost always happens).

      So yeah, I have to say on the whole, Pepe is like the Swastika. It was made with a peaceful meaning, it was used peacefully for some time, and now racists have co-opted it to the point where even used in it’s peaceful original means… everyone’s mind can’t go away from the bad actors that used that symbol.