Announcement Some Recent Changes To FCW

[The Conservationist]

As you may have noticed, there are some recent changes to FreeCanada today.

First, we are making most of the threads non-viewable to lurkers/people-not-logged in.

See details here:

Announcement - We Are FreeCanada

For the many lurkers of this forum, this message is mostly for you. We believe most of you are legit folks, who, for whatever reason, haven't yet made an account. As you're aware, the situation in the country is less-than-ideal. Particularly in the past week or so. For the time being, we will...

freecanada.win

(Please do not comment there, I will be locking the thread when I've finished adding to it).

Second, the FCW Telegram has been taken offline.
We do not have the time to mod that as closely as we would need to, under the current circumstances, thus making it a liability.

Third, a more minor change, but we've updated the criteria for 'New Member', 'Active Member', 'Well-Known Member', and so forth.
This is to make it a bit easier for everyone to identify who is 'new'.

These choices are being made with the intention of keeping the community together, with as little disruption as possible.

This has been the case with every other moderation decision we've made, since the creation of FreeCanada.

As per usual, please do take any privacy precautions that you find necessary (e.g., VPN, Tor, etc.).

 

[Reeenorseman]

@Gunner667 and myself created the FreeCanada.win Telegram.

Everyone is extremely frustrated with the current state of Canada and understandably so.

There was an increase in fedposting and we decided it was best to focus our resources on this forum.

Our time and energy is better spent here.

You can view the channel on TG:

FreeCanada.win (Censored)

We have been banned by the Google and Apple store sub to our second channel. https://t.me/FC2Two FreeCanada.win

t.me

 

[Gunner667]

All Good Folks here.
Keep the Keel.
Thanks for being Solid!
Day by Day.

 

[frank]

Anyone have a non-affiliated telegram with a similar vibe? I enjoyed the free flow of information....

 

[porterlacroix]

Thanks, guys. I was actually thinking about how the well-known member status seemed too easy to "get". Good choices all around I think.

If I'm no longer "well known", I am going to have to post more

 

[The Conservationist]

If you have a banner, it's a bit more hidden.

The banner auto-removes it from the usual place, below your username on thread posts.

It can still be viewed on your profile though:

 

[porterlacroix]

Ahhh, I see! I like it this way, looks nice and clean.

 

[NewfieMan709]

Well everything sounds reasonable, keep up the good work. I want this site to get massive, it seems to be full or normal people with what I think are basic ideas of living. I'm glad it's not like Ham's "Omega Canada" where we are/were banned for wrong think. If I do something that may be bad image for this site please by all means time me out or remove my post but explain why I am wrong. I am just so passionate about Canada and the way this country is heading is not what I think to be right, no matter your political views you have to realize something is not right. All the best guys!

 

[Bubbles]

site should not try to get massive IMO. brings in the normie faggots.

in times like these, a tighter knit place is worth more than aiming to be the next anti-Reddit (the other dot wins tried that and failed).

 

[jason73]

it was a necessary move and for the best .it takes 2 seconds for some traitor to fedpost and screenshot something before it can be modded . by then the damage is done . hope we can get the tele back in better times . it was a great place for info and memes. i hope that traffic comes to the mainboard now

 

[Reeenorseman]

We will bring it back when things improve.

 

[ThirdStringer]

I was only on TG for about a week, but the forum suddenly seemed static and low traffic in comparison.

 

[Bubbles]

decades later I will tell my kids I was a part of that TG.

 

[Youngracer88]

Solid upgrade.

 

[DUBBZ]

RIP telegram

 

[Deleted member 1326]

What is telegram?
Seriously, does everyone need a cell phone trace to feel good in this environment now?
I said this for 5 months here. And NOBODY cared.
In fact they just wanted to be burned it would seem.

 

[cloud8521]

Very blue, low energy days

 

[Manoderpo]

I like the new look, great job!

 

[The Conservationist]

Thank you.
It's actually the old look.
We figured it was a good time to rotate the default theme.

 

[bobthefighter]

Well done and keep up the good fight!

 

[DankRunner]

I think I was already trying to caution against the use of telegram (back when I was around as the most super of autists, for those who still remember me), but regardless for instant messaging probably taking the time to setup an XMPP instance would be more futureproof (and actually private).

...Now back to lurking (while logged in) and rarely posting

 

[Bubbles]

Fuck yeah bro someone who understand the potential of XMPP.

Problem is, it's a bit unfriendly for people on the first go.

I still think even a public XMPP server that's compliant and well trusted is way better than any other chat platform that's out in the open/

 

[DankRunner]

Yeah any XMPP server is probably still better than all of these other centralized platforms everyone is still using (that includes matrix/telegram that advertise decentralization but conduct themselves in a centralized manner), XMPP has been around almost forever now for a reason

 

[Bubbles]

@DankRunner and very low key too. Why? Because it works.

 

[Bubbles]

Oh btw, I've actually contributed to matrix code (one of the clients).

It's meh. Not only is matrix rough around the edges and like you mentioned boasts decentralization but is currently in a very centralized state, the organizational force behind matrix is also extremely deeply flawed and probably even compromised (grifters, possible links to Israeli intelligence). Not at all suitable for our purposes.

 

[The Conservationist]

@DankRunner
Welcome back.

 

[DankRunner]

Thanks, good to be back after my frusting experience that led me here originally

 

[CanadianAnonHere]

Thanks, mods.

 

[JordanPEDErson]

With all that being said I am looking into a self hosted end to end encrypted chat that seems promising. I do like free flow chat some times and its good to just have somewhere to bullshit.

 

[DankRunner]

I'm pretty well studied in the criteria you're listing, so here's a couple recommendations to look into as well if you want (for thee record I've never actually setup an XMPP instance):

- XMPP (prosody is easier to setup, ejabberd is full power at your disposal) with OMEMO or OTR encryption (OTR is what everyone really should be using, but since not everyone here is a filthy nerd like myself, OMEMO is the next best thing
- Mumble (if you don't care about chat retention and/or want voice chat, which is also E2EE)

I'm sure I can come up with a few more if you'd like, but honestly just stay away from the likes of matrix/telgram/signal if you're looking for self hosted E2EE solutions (I'm talking about actual all or nothing E2EE, not end to server encrypted like telegram for example, or selectively encrypting contents).

 

[AUGUSTO_PINOCHET]

As you may have noticed, there are some recent changes to FreeCanada today.

First, we are making most of the threads non-viewable to lurkers/people-not-logged in.

See details here:

Announcement - We Are FreeCanada

For the many lurkers of this forum, this message is mostly for you. We believe most of you are legit folks, who, for whatever reason, haven't yet made an account. As you're aware, the situation in the country is less-than-ideal. Particularly in the past week or so. For the time being, we will...

freecanada.win

(Please do not comment there, I will be locking the thread when I've finished adding to it).

Second, the FCW Telegram has been taken offline.
We do not have the time to mod that as closely as we would need to, under the current circumstances, thus making it a liability.

Third, a more minor change, but we've updated the criteria for 'New Member', 'Active Member', 'Well-Known Member', and so forth.
This is to make it a bit easier for everyone to identify who is 'new'.

These choices are being made with the intention of keeping the community together, with as little disruption as possible.

This has been the case with every other moderation decision we've made, since the creation of FreeCanada.

As per usual, please do take any privacy precautions that you find necessary (e.g., VPN, Tor, etc.).

The ConservationistWell Done Lads. Onwards and Upwards, eh??

 

[Neutral_admin]

Man, I've been largely on the TG, and I really missed your sig gif.

 

[OlafBlackPlaid]

You guys need to make a strictly news article and meme site for the older folks who just don’t care for forums but want the news of our generations.

There are lots of them out there.

 

[The Conservationist]

Like, without any discussion of the articles/memes?
Straight up thread posts, with no comments allowed?

 

[OlafBlackPlaid]

Yes.
They especially love the memes.

 

[JordanPEDErson]

@Endicott There is a "Resources" forum type, I think it changes the format to something like this.

 

[AhnalSchwaab]

I love the Green Pepe Theme, well done mods. And while it is sad to see one of our most precious instant meme harvesting tools gone now (Telegram) if it was glowing than that shit needs to go dark asap.

 

[Neutral_admin]

As you may have noticed, there are some recent changes to FreeCanada today.

First, we are making most of the threads non-viewable to lurkers/people-not-logged in.

See details here:

Announcement - We Are FreeCanada

For the many lurkers of this forum, this message is mostly for you. We believe most of you are legit folks, who, for whatever reason, haven't yet made an account. As you're aware, the situation in the country is less-than-ideal. Particularly in the past week or so. For the time being, we will...

freecanada.win

(Please do not comment there, I will be locking the thread when I've finished adding to it).

Second, the FCW Telegram has been taken offline.
We do not have the time to mod that as closely as we would need to, under the current circumstances, thus making it a liability.

Third, a more minor change, but we've updated the criteria for 'New Member', 'Active Member', 'Well-Known Member', and so forth.
This is to make it a bit easier for everyone to identify who is 'new'.

These choices are being made with the intention of keeping the community together, with as little disruption as possible.

This has been the case with every other moderation decision we've made, since the creation of FreeCanada.

As per usual, please do take any privacy precautions that you find necessary (e.g., VPN, Tor, etc.).

The ConservationistAlright.

You get to live another day.

Lucky you.

 

[DEUS_VULT]

I like the updates! I like the Eagle pepe better then the beer pepe . Also I was wondering when the background would change from the fall colors. I spell check here still underlines colours and other Canadian spelling, but everything else seems like a good improvement to what is already a good solid website forum.

 

[Enough]

We speak Canada round here, America took the u out of honour and never looked back.

 

[Nordic Barbarian]

Glad I already made my account a little while ago, normally I don't like sites that require me to have one, but in this case I think the current situation warrants it. Leftists & feds are no doubt paying attention to sites like this now looking for anything they can use against us, so requiring an account, while it might be a small barrier, it should deter the bulk of them.
Also I'm not sure if its a new feature or not, but I like the profile banners.

 

[JordanPEDErson]

They have been around for a while, anyone who has been active for a while is free to ask for one!

 

[Nordic Barbarian]

No, the banner I'm talking about is the background one that's visible when you hover over somebody's profile picture. I don't remember being able to do that when I set up my account before, but maybe I just missed it.

 

[joeguy]

Matrix has it's issues but the server-side media hosting is it's killer feature. XMPP doesn't have that. You can mitigate some of the security concerns by not using an "identity server", which is a totally optional component of a homeserver. A benefit of Matrix is that rooms are not owned by any server, but just a shared state among all relevant servers.

 

[bighotbaconizer]

As you may have noticed, there are some recent changes to FreeCanada today.

First, we are making most of the threads non-viewable to lurkers/people-not-logged in.

See details here:

Announcement - We Are FreeCanada

For the many lurkers of this forum, this message is mostly for you. We believe most of you are legit folks, who, for whatever reason, haven't yet made an account. As you're aware, the situation in the country is less-than-ideal. Particularly in the past week or so. For the time being, we will...

freecanada.win

(Please do not comment there, I will be locking the thread when I've finished adding to it).

Second, the FCW Telegram has been taken offline.
We do not have the time to mod that as closely as we would need to, under the current circumstances, thus making it a liability.

Third, a more minor change, but we've updated the criteria for 'New Member', 'Active Member', 'Well-Known Member', and so forth.
This is to make it a bit easier for everyone to identify who is 'new'.

These choices are being made with the intention of keeping the community together, with as little disruption as possible.

This has been the case with every other moderation decision we've made, since the creation of FreeCanada.

As per usual, please do take any privacy precautions that you find necessary (e.g., VPN, Tor, etc.).

The ConservationistYou guys are doing great and this is the best place on the internet. Let us know how we can help, either through donations or with tech skills or whatever.

 

[Jerr Bones]

This is poggers, I like.