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Ramble is a privacy based Reddit-like platform available through a variety of networks such as normal web, Tor Onion, I2P, Lokinet, and Yggdrasil (ramble.pw)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ramble is an effort to also promote the use of alternative internets ie. not just https regular web.

The great thing about their setup is that it allows users from various anonymity networks to actually interact with one another in a seamless, transparent fashion. Someone browsing their Onion Service may be responding to a post made from the clearnet, and have their response upvoted from someone who agrees with their comment from the I2P eepsite while a Yggdrasil user is creating a forum. Regardless of the method you choose to access the Ramble website, you'd be interacting with people from outside of your network in a relatively unique fashion. You can login to your account through any network that you wish. Post on your phone using the clearnet website, come home, and hop on the I2P eepsite and you'll have everything right there.

Another interesting feature is a fully transparent moderation log, showing any banned users or other deletions made (a bit like Aether does) with a reason. You only need to choose any username and password to get going, no e-mail or phone number requested to register.

See https://ramble.pw/f/ramble/3/welcome-to-ramble

#technology #alternativeto #reddit #ramble #privacy

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

It's based on postmill, developed by anarchist comrades from the raddle.me community. There was a lot of drama involving ramble.me which is an actual PRO-FASCIST postmill instance, including the postmill devs considering stopping everything because of that. Just imagine, you're writing a piece of software for friends & comrades to find a space, just for it to be used by nazis? Wow...

On the centralized side of things, yes it's centralized, no it's not proprietary nor bullshit. It's centralized because it's intended to be a small, closed-off community. I'm on there too and been advocating for federation with other news aggregator, but given the history between raddle and lemmy (with early days lemmy having heavy hand on censoring critiques of chinese government, and raddle devs being happy to ban marxist-leninists and other authoritarians on sight) that didn't gather a lot of support.

I sometimes laugh in my bed, thinking that marxists are building a federated network while anarchists are building a centralized one. It's funny, the differences between theory and practice? (For those who don't understand, those respective philosophies/ideologies advocate the exact opposite, where marxist-leninists promote so-called democratic centralism, and anarchists promote federation of autonomous communes).