Web³ XR
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For discussion of the history of the internet... and especially the present state of the internet, whatever ever-changing state that may be. Link to an archive of curated online content about the internet can be found within, please help add to and back up the archive where it will never be truly lost.
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Sister site to the version on the Lemmy.zip instance.
founded 1 year ago
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RULES
- Mods, including myself, are not allowed to ban ANYONE for a period of over 2 years, except as punishment for breaking this rule. If a mod of c/web3_xr bans someone for more than the listed times below, or bans someone in excess of 730 days (or 731 days if one of those days is the 29th of February on a leap year), the offending mod will be permanently removed from their position and will receive a ban of a length double to that of the ban which they gave to another. If more than one mod was involved in violating this rule, or more than one person was wrongfully banned, the offending mod(s) will be given double the combined ban lengths they maliciously gave.
- Mods are not exempt from the rules; if banned for any length of time, immediate removal from your assigned position will accompany it.
- Deleting content (aside from bot-generated spam) is against community rules. Doing so will result in you being reported to the instance mods and your content will be restored once you have been permanently banned to protect content from removal. The only exception to this (again, aside from bot-generated spam) is the portions of content which are or contain illegal content involving underage minors (see rule 1).
- Legally, we cannot archive or post links to sexual content containing fictional minors, due to the hosting of both sh.itjust.works and lemmy.zip being located in Canada and the United States of America respectively. Please read this for more information. To make this fair when such content IS allowed in nations like Japan and Colombia, while pornographic images of real children are not legal in those same countries, and due to my disgust with the content of fictional explicit content involving minors but also my anger with non-sexual NSFW content involving fictional minors being legal, and my disapproval of the cruel treatment of people seeking psychological treatment - in both my home country and elsewhere - for their condition/kink, I (u/Gadg8eer) will be banning ALL discussion of such content, including discussion of this very rule. This is punishable by up to a two year ban.
- HOWEVER, aside from the illegal links and the images themselves, NO such discussion is allowed to ever be deleted. Breaking this rule, even by mods, and regardless of motive or opinion, will result in a two year ban that can ONLY be rescinded by me (u/Gadg8eer) due to the sheer controversy and bigotry (ageism, racism, popularism and sexism) involved and (for what its worth) my inability to trust anyone else to be neutral on such a subject, which is why all discussion will remain hosted (but hidden by NSFW spoiler tags) as evidence of both moderative and judicial importance. Discussing this rule in any way is also forbidden, I have already banned someone for 2 years for discussing this topic in regards to defederation, so do not test me on this.
- Defederation is a blight on the fediverse in my mind, and while I am not authorative on the matter, or willing to abuse my position, discussion of defederation can only be justified by hostile "combat" by instance A to instance B that is not addressed by the admins of instance A, and must be refederated if instance A ever does address it. Any other attempt to "justify" defederation will be reviewed and, if found to be antithetical to the fair and permanent existence of morally-acceptable ("Don't be a jerk or be evil; nobody likes to be unfairly hurt") online content, will result in a 1 month ban on the first and 6 months on the second strike, and a 2 year ban on the third strike.
- Alt accounts are only allowed insofar as not being created for spam or harassment. Due to a lack of moderation tools as of this writing, stay tuned for updates to this rule.
Appeal Process
Please private message a member of the staff to resolve any issues where you believe you've been wrongfully banned. If the mods themselves are considered corrupt, you may bring up one report per month with u/Gadg8eer by private message to express these issues.
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The internet is slowly dying. I wish we could just say "it was, but then archive.org and other archives showed up", but turns out that now sites like TV Tropes, deviantArt, Twitter and Reddit are losing content for one reason or another. Only some of their content can likely be saved at this point.
Links rot over a period of 20 years, until almost nothing is left. ARPANET is gone, except a handful of records about how the first node was created in the 1960s. BBSes of the 80s are gone. The 90s, the dawn of the World Wide Web, is nearly absent, and so is most of the Turn of the Millennium.
Now we're seeing the disappearance of information from as little as 5 years ago, because sites are being targeted by people who want the information on them gone. Many, many websites have been destroyed because they refused to self-archive, and with the sole exception (thankfully) of Wikipedia, nobody on the internet is completely publicly archiving everything.
From the efforts of egotistical PC gaming modders for games like Transport Tycoon who took and continue to take down their mods out of spite for the actions of a few community members, to governments bringing down tvlinks.cc and then MegaShare, to the hacker who apparently deleted y!gallery, to the dumbing down of Google searches to only provide three pages before no more results are shown, content is being lost every day for reasons that are far from justifiable.
Attacks on the internet as a whole - both successful and unsuccessful - like TWEA, CDA, COPA, DMCA, DOPA, SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, CISA, FOSTA-SESTA or the EARN IT bill; all in the USA alone - are an almost yearly occurence. Hitting closer to home for sh.itjust.works, Bill C-10/C-11 is just one Canadian bill attempting to "kill" the internet within the country.
I do see a light at the end of the tunnel, however. Plugins like Archiveror for Firefox, and systems like Zotero for saving research to a local or cloud storage, make it easy to back up everything you want to find but cannot trust to a bookmark alone. Web Archive Viewer is useful for viewing such archives easily. Perma.cc allows you to keep links indefinitely even if you stop paying your subscription (IIRC), but restricts how many links you can make permanent per month based on subscription level.
So please, if you see this, and think of or find something you see on the internet that you want to preserve, make the effort to do so! If you care, then someone else might as well. Then post a link here to share it with others.
I'll also provide this curated content for anyone wanting to learn more about the history and changing nature of the internet. If you see anything there that you want to stick around, please re-post it here and at least one place elsewhere to prevent it from being lost if Guilded no longer exists.
While we don't condone the archiving of immoral content, I will hold that only content that directly leads to/from an immoral act should be destroyed forever; if the "crime" is victimless, like online piracy of media which is not being circulated or recreational drug use, it should not have to be purged from the federation of lemmy/kbin just because governments say so; governments are partly to blame for this mess in the first place.
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Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using the name Threads
(www.businesswire.com)
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Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers
(www.sciencealert.com)
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Battle Cry of the Fediverse: A Six-Part Manifesto Against Meta's Zuckerberg and His Corporate Ambitions
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Couldn't agree more.
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Awkwardturtle The banned 1000 sub mod Talks about the admins after Ban and got a message "let all burn to the ground"
(lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/541703
So yeah... maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
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