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The guy behind Shit Rentals has made a free public database for tenants::Named after his influential TikTok series, Shit Rentals, Jordie van den Berg (aka Purple Pingers) announced the database on the website formerly known as Twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 10 months ago (3 children)

the website formerly known as Twitter.

Every time a journalist refuses to acknowledge the idiotic name change is another little hit of dopamine.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Given their choice of logo, I am advocating for everyone to start referring to it as Twitter/X11.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Isn't the logo just a unicode character? The X in X.Org is 2 seperate pieces that bend away from each other at the center.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

X also a terrible search term. Searching for an article with the word Twitter in it should work a lot better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Should read: the formerly successful website known as Twitter

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago

Looks like it's Australia only ATM...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Would love something like this in the UK.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

We need this world wide I guess, here in Germany many landlords suck and i would be happy to let people know.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I could make one for the uk, if you think there would be a userbase for it.

Wouldn’t want to make money from it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would very much talk with a lawyer first.

These kinds of things crop up every few years and either become dens of racism or get sued to oblivion. And the UK has some pretty hefty libel laws

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What if it was hosted in another country and set up through a shell company, like these large companies like to hide behind?

I will seek legal advice first but just thinking out loud I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If you have the know how to implement it and the money to maintain it then probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Read the history of the Pirate Bay. That should give you some ideas how to make a site that is reasonably resistant to laws and governments.

[–] PsychedSy 2 points 10 months ago

I'd offer to help but I'd like to visit the motherland some day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not to be a crypto-bro, but if you bought a domain and hosting from, say njal.la or incognet using Monero and you only connected to your hosts to SSH/FTP behind a good VPN, there's not much anyone could do to discover who you are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I’ll keep that in mind when ready to launch. Currently just putting together a prototype.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

This is a fantastic idea