I signed up there, and have the same misgivings about the choice of WordPress, but then I have a bad history with WordPress, and so may not be as objective as one would hope.
BIAD and I were once both participants in a WordPress blog, along with ATS member DCMB1490, that came under attack not by any government entity, but by a lunatic fringe group that was organized and led from South Africa, with the participation of a South African expat then living in Germany. They first tried to spam us out of existence, and when that dismally, utterly, and completely failed, they started a letter-writing campaign to WordPress that ultimately got the blog censored and taken down. I managed to retrieve and save all of the blog posts and pages before WordPress censored us, but the very fact that WordPress could even do so left a really bad taste. That's a factor in my strong stance against censorship to this very day.
DCMB1490 has since passed on, about 13 years ago, but the blog posts still live on on a portable hard drive I still have.
I found it odd that the Landing Area site automatically pulled an actual old photograph of me from somewhere on the internet to use as my avatar, but I changed it to something more recent.
Regardless of all of that, I think that it's a good thing. I feel that decentralization of these sorts of discussion sites can't be a bad thing, in case they come under fire. In that event, there is no single "head" for the opposition to take out. While "they" might be working on the elimination of a single site, there are always many more to fall back and regroup to so that the network is never truly eliminated... and that can't be a bad thing, any whicha way one cuts it.
The more the merrier!
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BIAD and I were once both participants in a WordPress blog, along with ATS member DCMB1490, that came under attack not by any government entity, but by a lunatic fringe group that was organized and led from South Africa, with the participation of a South African expat then living in Germany. They first tried to spam us out of existence, and when that dismally, utterly, and completely failed, they started a letter-writing campaign to WordPress that ultimately got the blog censored and taken down. I managed to retrieve and save all of the blog posts and pages before WordPress censored us, but the very fact that WordPress could even do so left a really bad taste. That's a factor in my strong stance against censorship to this very day.
DCMB1490 has since passed on, about 13 years ago, but the blog posts still live on on a portable hard drive I still have.
I found it odd that the Landing Area site automatically pulled an actual old photograph of me from somewhere on the internet to use as my avatar, but I changed it to something more recent.
Regardless of all of that, I think that it's a good thing. I feel that decentralization of these sorts of discussion sites can't be a bad thing, in case they come under fire. In that event, there is no single "head" for the opposition to take out. While "they" might be working on the elimination of a single site, there are always many more to fall back and regroup to so that the network is never truly eliminated... and that can't be a bad thing, any whicha way one cuts it.
The more the merrier!
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake