SoulFire
a natural neural network
Politics is the continuation of drama by other means.
Programmer and mind upload enthusiast from Finland. Trying to become a better writer.
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SoulFire
a natural neural network
3yr ago
Even from a strategic viewpoint it might not be such a good idea. It might turn away sympathizers and support the narrative of Kiwi Farms as a harassment website.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
3yr ago
The alternate themes don't seem to support a left margin line for a thread of comments. Other than that, I liked the midnight theme.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
3yr ago
Maybe I just have more selfish moral instincts, but I see moral worth as something that is formed through connection between me and that specific animal. I don't see it as something that is universally applied to every animal. Obviously, if our family dog was butchered, I would be shocked and outraged. But I find it difficult to feel anything for the vague abstraction of a chicken in a factory farm. Maybe if I could see one in front of my eyes, I would want to protect that chicken - but only that particular chicken.
Ultimately, I don't think it's something you can steelman or argue about. It's just a matter of one's moral intuition.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
3yr ago
I think we may have a ton of imported lurkers who were always just invisible before, and I'm glad at least some of them have chosen to come along.
Where else would we get our reading material from? I usually don't post much because I don't particularly enjoy writing like people here do, and I usually feel more pain than joy when I do post. I do mostly enjoy skimming every weekly culture war or small-scale questions thread, and also the other non-weekly random topic threads.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
3yr ago
Kiwi Farms is basically a gossip forum about internet personalities. They have a surprisingly high share of female users and even a sub-forum to discuss cosplay/makeup content creators, fat acceptance activists, trans people, and other girly things.
Originally, the site was called CWCki Forums, and they focused on documenting and discussing the life of an individual known as Chris-chan, or Christian Wenston Chandler (CWC), author of the Sonichu webcomic and prone to many hi-jinks. In the beginning of 2015, it appears they moved to the domain kiwifar.ms, and eventually to kiwifarms.net.
In Kiwi Farms, they have a term 'lolcow' for people that are walking disasters and that are 'farmed for endless lols'. These are the people that they initially focused on discussing, but as the community grew, they moved on to discuss online personalities and online communities more widely.
The owner of the site appears to be some degree of free speech activist. The posts on the site are allowed to include slurs against various minority groups. On the site, it's allowed to doxx the individuals that are discussed, as in release identifying information about them. More infamously, Kiwi Farms were one of the few sites not to take down the footage from the Christchurch massacre.
Kiwi Farms also has a reputation for being a platform for anti-trans activism. They harbor a number of TERFs and other people against trans rights activists or trans people in general. More recently, this lead to the #DropKiwiFarms campaign in response by trans activists, and this eventually lead to Kiwi Farms being dropped from Cloudflare. This lead to the migration to the URL kiwifarms.ru and a Russian DDoS protection service. However, this service caved under the network load.
Currently, Kiwi Farms is only accessible through Tor at http://uquusqsaaad66cvub4473csdu4uu7ahxou3zqc35fpw5d4ificedzyqd.onion/
I think there's still plenty of people on the fence or on their side, who don't buy into the narrative, but they can still be turned away, and I think having more people on your side is a help regardless of the situation. I probably wouldn't personally be that bothered by any trolling ops, but it would make me a lot more hesitant to even bring the site up here and defend it, and I couldn't really defend it to my more reasonable friends either in that scenario.
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