ActivityPub Viewer

A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a request with the right Accept header to the server to view the underlying object.

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{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "OrderedCollectionPage", "orderedItems": [ { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:951632409008443392", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "Test video from Minds downloaded app.<br />Long time to process a 7 sec vid...", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/951632409008443392", "published": "2019-03-11T00:07:26+00:00", "source": { "content": "Test video from Minds downloaded app.\nLong time to process a 7 sec vid...", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:951632409008443392/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:943367904850948096", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "Memo, Facebook, and Cent: An Update of the Social Networks I Use and Why<br /><br /><a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://www.minds.com/Ezincrypto\" target=\"_blank\">@Ezincrypto</a> on Cent asked me if I made a post about memo.cash. <br /><br />While I have, it's been a while since I've made a post about all the social networks I use... and, well, that whole thing could use a bit of an update.<br /><br />About a month ago [I was trying to stretch my testing at around 16-ish social networks](<a href=\"https://www.yours.org/content/16-interconneected-social-networks--yours--sola--castbox--audio-podcas-21fdeca67c46\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org/content/16-interconneected-social-networks--yours--sola--castbox--audio-podcas-21fdeca67c46</a>), interconnecting and using all of them, which was exhausting, but incredibly interesting.<br />But also exhausting.<br /><br />I also made [a post where I linked all the profiles I have](<a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan/social-network-links\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan/social-network-links</a>).<br /><br />In this post, I'm going to cover which ones are my favorite, first, and why I'm still using them, so you can start using them too if you'd like, sooner than later, and then which ones I've stopped using, and why.<br /><br />-1. [Memo](<a href=\"https://memo.cash\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash</a>).<br />Obviously, I'm still using Memo.<br />Memo is currently essentially similar to Twitter, mainly in terms of how long of posts you can make, although it technically has the ability to expand. <br /><br />What's great about Memo is that it can't be censored since it's on the blockchain, you can tip people a custom amount, or simply like their posts without tipping. Every action is on the blockchain (both BCH-SV (BSV) and BCH-ABC (BCH)), but the cost of the actions is so small (244 sats), that's it's practically free. Likewise, the minimum tip you can do is 546 sats, which is also practically nothing. (Currently, $1 USD = 27,795 Satoshi)<br /><br />[People have speculated about the idea of the price of 1 satoshi being $1](<a href=\"https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@vortex-nate/what-if-1-satoshi-was-worth-usd1-us-dollar\" target=\"_blank\">https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@vortex-nate/what-if-1-satoshi-was-worth-usd1-us-dollar</a>), and I think that's missing the point, just as the idea of holding bitcoin until it gets to $20,000 and plus to make tons of money.<br /><br />Why? Because that's the short game, not the long game.I'm not saying appreciating that idea is bad, but if it's your sole motivation, you're selling the potential and point of the project of bitcoin short: <br /><br />Financial freedom worldwide, where anyone can trade and with anyone else without a middleman, without censorship. And yeah, you'll make a ton of money in the process in bits and pieces over time. So will everyone else. If only you benefit, and you're only focused on your own benefit, you're going to lose out on the biggest boon that the combination of crypto with social networks makes possible.<br /><br />You can see, for instance, on aforementioned post talking about the $1 idea, that crypto-conspiracies would go to a site to just cash out 217 sats each hour. I get tips that exceed that every day on memo, just by posting the same way I would on Facebook! (After all, the minimum is 546.)<br /><br />And I haven't even touched on my favorite feature of memo:<br />Infinite replies.<br /><br />I've long had a dream that each and every reply you make to someone could be its own post. Memo has that!I also tested it out and posted about it on matter.cash... and if it wasn't currently down for upgrading*, I'd share the example I posted to there. The ironic issue with that is that if there are enough replies, well... your computer slows to a crawl trying to load everything!<br /><br />*\"Serverless blogs and tokenized communities on Bitcoin SV metanet.<br />Coming soon. Join the publishing revolution.\"<br /><br />-2. [Honest](<a href=\"https://honest.cash\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash</a>).<br />Honest.cash solved for that.<br />[After 5 responses deep, \"Load more replies\"](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/after-5-responses-deep-load-more-replies-1394\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/after-5-responses-deep-load-more-replies-1394</a>)<br />I was on Honest before Cent, and [for a while, Honest.cash was easier to use than Cent](<a href=\"https://www.yours.org/content/yours--honest--and-cent--exploring-multi-post-preferences---but-was-ov-49d834d239c33\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org/content/yours--honest--and-cent--exploring-multi-post-preferences---but-was-ov-49d834d239c33</a>).<br /><br />-3. [Cent](<a href=\"https://beta.cent.co\" target=\"_blank\">https://beta.cent.co</a>).<br />However, currently, \"[Cent is easy copy-paste](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/cent-is-easy-copy-paste-2261\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/cent-is-easy-copy-paste-2261</a>)\" compared with Honest.<br /><br />So, I'm consistently using Memo, and Honest and Cent are battling for my attention, with Cent currently in the overall lead because it's the only site with easy copy-paste + hyperlinking. <br />Obviously, I'm also using Facebook, but the whole idea of all of this is that Facebook is a censoring fascist controlling anti-human data-grubbing Big Brother monstrosity, so even though it's still the most advanced in terms of social interactivity, it's a terrible idea not to spread out to other social networks that have a freedom mindset with freedom tools.<br /><br />One difference to note regarding Memo, Honest, and Cent, is that Memo and Honest use Bitcoin, whereas Cent uses Ethereum.<br /><br />Now, for the sites that I'm using much less, and why, starting with the more popular ones:<br /><br />-1. [Steemit](<a href=\"https://steemit.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://steemit.com/</a>).<br />Steemit is by far the most famous alternative social network. It's payout scheme confuses me to no end, and [if you don't have the social credits to post, you can't](<a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan/biocentrism-the-case-against-veganism\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan/biocentrism-the-case-against-veganism</a>). <br />It's a mess, though still quite a popular option for a lot of people. <br />You might enjoy it too. I occasionally post there, but rarely.<br /><br />-2. [Weku](<a href=\"https://weku.io\" target=\"_blank\">https://weku.io</a>).<br />Weku is based off of an older version of Steemit, with the intent to do the money stuff differently, without/against the use of whales. Until [some weird stuff happened with my password](<a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/hi-i-m-anarchovegan\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/hi-i-m-anarchovegan</a>), it was one of my go-to's for posting.<br />Now... not so much. <br /><br />-3. [Minds](<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/</a>).<br />Minds is almost as popular as Steemit. <br />Bill Ottman, co-founder, has spoken a lot on YouTube about the philosophy of going toward open-source. <br />One of the key features of Minds is the Boost feature, where you can show your posts to everyone, or a select group of people, and the cost is tokens, which you can earn by posting to Minds and logging in each day. Initially, you could make posts that were private/unlisted, and provide the link, making it similar to YouTube's unlisted. Now, there's only the option for public/subscribed. Some people enjoy using Minds.<br />I'm not very fond of the format myself. It feels very spammy and random to me.<br /><br />-4. [MeWe](<a href=\"https://mewe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://mewe.com/</a>).<br />MeWe is presented as an alternative to Facebook, and lots of Facebook people have eschewed Facebook for MeWe.<br /><br />Apparently, you can't be censored on MeWe, and there's lots of nudity on there. <br />However, you cannot link your posts to anywhere else, which is why I don't use MeWe:<br />It's a closed system.<br /><br />-5. [Yours](<a href=\"https://www.yours.org\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org</a>).<br />Yours was created by Ryan X. Charles, who is now focused on The Money Button, from what I understand. <br />Yours was the first website I was aware of to utilize the combination of the finances of Bitcoin Cash with social networks. <br />Yours has an incentivized and ranking voting system, and [you can learn about it by visiting it's channel](<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxq5LJnJ08H-D4P_Y4Fom8A/videos\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxq5LJnJ08H-D4P_Y4Fom8A/videos</a>).<br />Here's [an interview with ColbertReport](<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1f2ZtsRCg\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1f2ZtsRCg</a>), as well.<br /><br />Some current flaws that are fatal for my wanting to use, talk about, or promote Yours include that you cannot currently join the site, you cannot reply to comments, and it was down for 1-2 months recently with no explanation from Ryan whatsoever.<br /><br />This has been a lot of writing, so I'm going to go through these last ones a bit faster, with less detail, and if you want to check them out for yourself, feel free.<br /><br />And, before I go to some less well-known sites, a quick shoutout to two growing Patreon alternatives:<br />-1. [SubscribeStar](<a href=\"https://www.subscribestar.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.subscribestar.com/</a>).<br />-2. [BitBacker](BitBacker.io).<br /><br />Now, for some less well-known sites:<br />-1. [Ello](Ello.co).<br />Ello functions in a way similar to Instagram, Facebook, and Weku/Steemit/Cent, in my mind, in that posts are laid out in a very visual style (that I'm not especially fond of), and you can hyperlink text. There is, however, no earnings program. Aside from the visual format, it is quite close to the aim I had to make what I called \"Social Wiki\", an idea of combining the social elements of Facebook with the deep linking of Wikipedia.<br /><br />-2. [Sola](<a href=\"https://sola.foundation/\" target=\"_blank\">https://sola.foundation/</a>).<br />Sola seems to function similar to Steemit, in that you need to have enough credits to post, though instead of a sort-of related app like eSteem, Sola has its own app.<br />I made a few posts and then ran out of credit, and stopped using the app. I'm looking at it again and I can post again, though I find the layout very disorienting.<br /><br />-3. [Smoke](<a href=\"https://smoke.io/\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/</a>).<br />There's only one thing you need to know about Smoke:<br />ONLY POST MARIJUANA CONTENT.<br />(Or just mostly, like 80-90%)<br /><br />Seriously. That's all you need to know.<br /><br />I at first was overjoyed by finding it, because its format looks like a direct copy of Steemit/Weku, but it has an app! <br />I was in heaven. [I first found out they didn't like the association with Weku](<a href=\"https://smoke.io/legalize/@anarchovegan/hi-two-questions-1-is-this-site-a-clone-of-weku-2-smoking-violation-of-tos\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/legalize/@anarchovegan/hi-two-questions-1-is-this-site-a-clone-of-weku-2-smoking-violation-of-tos</a>).<br /><br />I then quickly found that the community there HATES it when people post ANYTHING on a regular basis if it isn't weed related. Don't even bother if it's not about weed. Seriously. They can't censor you, but you will not enjoying being there AT ALL.<br /><br />[And that's why I stopped posting there](<a href=\"https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/joyless-why-i-m-leaving-smoke-io\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/joyless-why-i-m-leaving-smoke-io</a>).<br /><br />[For a hot second I got the same impression from Cent that I got from Smoke, but that's faded since](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/honest-isnt-better-than-cent-for-everyone-1529\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/honest-isnt-better-than-cent-for-everyone-1529</a>).<br /><br />-4. [Whaleshares](<a href=\"https://whaleshares.io/\" target=\"_blank\">https://whaleshares.io/</a>).<br />I'm not sure what Whaleshares is or how it functions.<br />I'm still trying to sign up.<br /><br />-5. [PornHub](<a href=\"https://pornhub.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://pornhub.com/</a>).<br />Well, you don't have to post just porn there, [as Disenthrall found out](<a href=\"https://www.pornhub.com/users/disenthrall\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.pornhub.com/users/disenthrall</a>).<br /><br />And now, for some miscellaneous stuff...<br /><br />There are also alternative videos sites:<br />-1. [D.tube](<a href=\"https://d.tube/\" target=\"_blank\">https://d.tube/</a>).<br />D.tube is connected with Steemit. Whatever you post to D.tube is posted to your Steemit. <br />I've been having the darndest time uploading videos to there though.<br /><br />-2. [Keyport.tv](<a href=\"https://keyport.tv/\" target=\"_blank\">https://keyport.tv/</a>).<br />You log into Keyport via your HandCash, which uses BSV.<br />Keyport is currently down and under development.<br /><br />You can earn for each minute/second of content of yours that people watch, or you can set it for free, and people only pay the fee for the video to be seen via the service... I think. I've had more success with uploading to Keyport than I have with D.tube, although it's still quite difficult and generally I can only post short clips, although I've seen others post much longer ones.<br /><br />-3. [BitChute](<a href=\"https://www.bitchute.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.bitchute.com/</a>).<br />BitChute enables you to hook up your YouTube to make your content more resistant to censorship. It can be a bit of a process, but quite worth it in this censorship day and age of YouTube.<br /><br />-4. [Bit.tube](<a href=\"https://bit.tube\" target=\"_blank\">https://bit.tube</a>)<br />I haven't had much experience with Bit.tube, but here's a mention for it. <br />But [here's a video from Disenthrall about it](<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoAc3joKcLk\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoAc3joKcLk</a>).<br /><br />As well, there are alternate audio sites:<br />-1. [CastBox](<a href=\"https://castbox.fm/\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/</a>).<br />-2. [SoundCloud](<a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://soundcloud.com/</a>).<br /><br />There are also up-and-coming sites:<br />-1. [Trybe](<a href=\"https://trybe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://trybe.com/</a>).<br />-2. [Yen](<a href=\"https://yen.io/\" target=\"_blank\">https://yen.io/</a>)<br /><br />There's is also a push to include adult content on the blockchain:<br />-1. [SpankChain](<a href=\"https://spankchain.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://spankchain.com/</a>).<br />SpankChain, where you can be [tipped](<a href=\"https://medium.com/spankchain/spankchain-com-adult-entertainment-on-the-blockchain-e1645a80fcdb\" target=\"_blank\">https://medium.com/spankchain/spankchain-com-adult-entertainment-on-the-blockchain-e1645a80fcdb</a>) in [crypto](<a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/zarastone/2017/10/25/how-spankchain-an-x-rated-blockchain-plans-to-provide-pornstars-with-better-payment-plans/#556759236594\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.forbes.com/sites/zarastone/2017/10/25/how-spankchain-an-x-rated-blockchain-plans-to-provide-pornstars-with-better-payment-plans/#556759236594</a>).<br /><br />[I'm on Chaturbate](<a href=\"https://chaturbate.com/p/shyguy76767/\" target=\"_blank\">https://chaturbate.com/p/shyguy76767/</a>), and the difference of difficulty for signing up is quite apparent, as while on Chaturbate you don't need to give your information to watch, unless you're also a performer yourself, you have to give all that information (like your license) upfront. The process, I've found, is much more difficulty than I was expecting, and I still haven't signed up.<br /><br />-2. [Tube8](<a href=\"https://blockchain.porn/2018/08/27/get-paid-for-watching-porn-on-the-blockchain/\" target=\"_blank\">https://blockchain.porn/2018/08/27/get-paid-for-watching-porn-on-the-blockchain/</a>).<br /><br />This certainly got exhausting to write. <br />It's also going to be exhausting to cross-post.<br />However, this is one of the few posts where cross-posting is relevant, makes sense, and matters.<br /><br />That's weird that it was so easy to copy-paste from [Weku](<a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/memo-facebook-and-cent-an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-why\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/memo-facebook-and-cent-an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-why</a>) to [Yours](<a href=\"https://www.yours.org/content/memo--facebook--and-cent--an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-w-2385113189e0\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org/content/memo--facebook--and-cent--an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-w-2385113189e0</a>). I like that.<br />[Minds](<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/943367904850948096\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/943367904850948096</a>)<br />[Honest](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/memo-facebook-and-cent-an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-why-2379/\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/memo-facebook-and-cent-an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-why-2379/</a>)<br />I like how [Ello](<a href=\"https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/aoklbbqavqtk0jvmi2m87a\" target=\"_blank\">https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/aoklbbqavqtk0jvmi2m87a</a>) automatically includes the Weku format into links. [Cent](<a href=\"https://beta.cent.co/+k96cwb\" target=\"_blank\">https://beta.cent.co/+k96cwb</a>), [Facebook](<a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/somethingsea/posts/2497446616995328\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/somethingsea/posts/2497446616995328</a>), [Memo](<a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/58ede10f3fe13f44a80fef5daa19ac83a6b3820a11b59e16cc0ac3f93fbd7554\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/58ede10f3fe13f44a80fef5daa19ac83a6b3820a11b59e16cc0ac3f93fbd7554</a>), [Bitbacker](<a href=\"https://bitbacker.io/posts/2056/\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitbacker.io/posts/2056/</a>), [Steemit](<a href=\"https://steemit.com/update/@somethingsea/memo-facebook-and-cent-an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-why\" target=\"_blank\">https://steemit.com/update/@somethingsea/memo-facebook-and-cent-an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-why</a>)", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/943367904850948096", "published": "2019-02-16T04:47:15+00:00", "source": { "content": "Memo, Facebook, and Cent: An Update of the Social Networks I Use and Why\n\n@Ezincrypto on Cent asked me if I made a post about memo.cash. \n\nWhile I have, it's been a while since I've made a post about all the social networks I use... and, well, that whole thing could use a bit of an update.\n\nAbout a month ago [I was trying to stretch my testing at around 16-ish social networks](https://www.yours.org/content/16-interconneected-social-networks--yours--sola--castbox--audio-podcas-21fdeca67c46), interconnecting and using all of them, which was exhausting, but incredibly interesting.\nBut also exhausting.\n\nI also made [a post where I linked all the profiles I have](https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan/social-network-links).\n\nIn this post, I'm going to cover which ones are my favorite, first, and why I'm still using them, so you can start using them too if you'd like, sooner than later, and then which ones I've stopped using, and why.\n\n-1. [Memo](https://memo.cash).\nObviously, I'm still using Memo.\nMemo is currently essentially similar to Twitter, mainly in terms of how long of posts you can make, although it technically has the ability to expand. \n\nWhat's great about Memo is that it can't be censored since it's on the blockchain, you can tip people a custom amount, or simply like their posts without tipping. Every action is on the blockchain (both BCH-SV (BSV) and BCH-ABC (BCH)), but the cost of the actions is so small (244 sats), that's it's practically free. Likewise, the minimum tip you can do is 546 sats, which is also practically nothing. (Currently, $1 USD = 27,795 Satoshi)\n\n[People have speculated about the idea of the price of 1 satoshi being $1](https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@vortex-nate/what-if-1-satoshi-was-worth-usd1-us-dollar), and I think that's missing the point, just as the idea of holding bitcoin until it gets to $20,000 and plus to make tons of money.\n\nWhy? Because that's the short game, not the long game.I'm not saying appreciating that idea is bad, but if it's your sole motivation, you're selling the potential and point of the project of bitcoin short: \n\nFinancial freedom worldwide, where anyone can trade and with anyone else without a middleman, without censorship. And yeah, you'll make a ton of money in the process in bits and pieces over time. So will everyone else. If only you benefit, and you're only focused on your own benefit, you're going to lose out on the biggest boon that the combination of crypto with social networks makes possible.\n\nYou can see, for instance, on aforementioned post talking about the $1 idea, that crypto-conspiracies would go to a site to just cash out 217 sats each hour. I get tips that exceed that every day on memo, just by posting the same way I would on Facebook! (After all, the minimum is 546.)\n\nAnd I haven't even touched on my favorite feature of memo:\nInfinite replies.\n\nI've long had a dream that each and every reply you make to someone could be its own post. Memo has that!I also tested it out and posted about it on matter.cash... and if it wasn't currently down for upgrading*, I'd share the example I posted to there. The ironic issue with that is that if there are enough replies, well... your computer slows to a crawl trying to load everything!\n\n*\"Serverless blogs and tokenized communities on Bitcoin SV metanet.\nComing soon. Join the publishing revolution.\"\n\n-2. [Honest](https://honest.cash).\nHonest.cash solved for that.\n[After 5 responses deep, \"Load more replies\"](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/after-5-responses-deep-load-more-replies-1394)\nI was on Honest before Cent, and [for a while, Honest.cash was easier to use than Cent](https://www.yours.org/content/yours--honest--and-cent--exploring-multi-post-preferences---but-was-ov-49d834d239c33).\n\n-3. [Cent](https://beta.cent.co).\nHowever, currently, \"[Cent is easy copy-paste](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/cent-is-easy-copy-paste-2261)\" compared with Honest.\n\nSo, I'm consistently using Memo, and Honest and Cent are battling for my attention, with Cent currently in the overall lead because it's the only site with easy copy-paste + hyperlinking. \nObviously, I'm also using Facebook, but the whole idea of all of this is that Facebook is a censoring fascist controlling anti-human data-grubbing Big Brother monstrosity, so even though it's still the most advanced in terms of social interactivity, it's a terrible idea not to spread out to other social networks that have a freedom mindset with freedom tools.\n\nOne difference to note regarding Memo, Honest, and Cent, is that Memo and Honest use Bitcoin, whereas Cent uses Ethereum.\n\nNow, for the sites that I'm using much less, and why, starting with the more popular ones:\n\n-1. [Steemit](https://steemit.com/).\nSteemit is by far the most famous alternative social network. It's payout scheme confuses me to no end, and [if you don't have the social credits to post, you can't](https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan/biocentrism-the-case-against-veganism). \nIt's a mess, though still quite a popular option for a lot of people. \nYou might enjoy it too. I occasionally post there, but rarely.\n\n-2. [Weku](https://weku.io).\nWeku is based off of an older version of Steemit, with the intent to do the money stuff differently, without/against the use of whales. Until [some weird stuff happened with my password](https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/hi-i-m-anarchovegan), it was one of my go-to's for posting.\nNow... not so much. \n\n-3. [Minds](https://www.minds.com/).\nMinds is almost as popular as Steemit. \nBill Ottman, co-founder, has spoken a lot on YouTube about the philosophy of going toward open-source. \nOne of the key features of Minds is the Boost feature, where you can show your posts to everyone, or a select group of people, and the cost is tokens, which you can earn by posting to Minds and logging in each day. Initially, you could make posts that were private/unlisted, and provide the link, making it similar to YouTube's unlisted. Now, there's only the option for public/subscribed. Some people enjoy using Minds.\nI'm not very fond of the format myself. It feels very spammy and random to me.\n\n-4. [MeWe](https://mewe.com/).\nMeWe is presented as an alternative to Facebook, and lots of Facebook people have eschewed Facebook for MeWe.\n\nApparently, you can't be censored on MeWe, and there's lots of nudity on there. \nHowever, you cannot link your posts to anywhere else, which is why I don't use MeWe:\nIt's a closed system.\n\n-5. [Yours](https://www.yours.org).\nYours was created by Ryan X. Charles, who is now focused on The Money Button, from what I understand. \nYours was the first website I was aware of to utilize the combination of the finances of Bitcoin Cash with social networks. \nYours has an incentivized and ranking voting system, and [you can learn about it by visiting it's channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxq5LJnJ08H-D4P_Y4Fom8A/videos).\nHere's [an interview with ColbertReport](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1f2ZtsRCg), as well.\n\nSome current flaws that are fatal for my wanting to use, talk about, or promote Yours include that you cannot currently join the site, you cannot reply to comments, and it was down for 1-2 months recently with no explanation from Ryan whatsoever.\n\nThis has been a lot of writing, so I'm going to go through these last ones a bit faster, with less detail, and if you want to check them out for yourself, feel free.\n\nAnd, before I go to some less well-known sites, a quick shoutout to two growing Patreon alternatives:\n-1. [SubscribeStar](https://www.subscribestar.com/).\n-2. [BitBacker](BitBacker.io).\n\nNow, for some less well-known sites:\n-1. [Ello](Ello.co).\nEllo functions in a way similar to Instagram, Facebook, and Weku/Steemit/Cent, in my mind, in that posts are laid out in a very visual style (that I'm not especially fond of), and you can hyperlink text. There is, however, no earnings program. Aside from the visual format, it is quite close to the aim I had to make what I called \"Social Wiki\", an idea of combining the social elements of Facebook with the deep linking of Wikipedia.\n\n-2. [Sola](https://sola.foundation/).\nSola seems to function similar to Steemit, in that you need to have enough credits to post, though instead of a sort-of related app like eSteem, Sola has its own app.\nI made a few posts and then ran out of credit, and stopped using the app. I'm looking at it again and I can post again, though I find the layout very disorienting.\n\n-3. [Smoke](https://smoke.io/).\nThere's only one thing you need to know about Smoke:\nONLY POST MARIJUANA CONTENT.\n(Or just mostly, like 80-90%)\n\nSeriously. That's all you need to know.\n\nI at first was overjoyed by finding it, because its format looks like a direct copy of Steemit/Weku, but it has an app! \nI was in heaven. [I first found out they didn't like the association with Weku](https://smoke.io/legalize/@anarchovegan/hi-two-questions-1-is-this-site-a-clone-of-weku-2-smoking-violation-of-tos).\n\nI then quickly found that the community there HATES it when people post ANYTHING on a regular basis if it isn't weed related. Don't even bother if it's not about weed. Seriously. They can't censor you, but you will not enjoying being there AT ALL.\n\n[And that's why I stopped posting there](https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/joyless-why-i-m-leaving-smoke-io).\n\n[For a hot second I got the same impression from Cent that I got from Smoke, but that's faded since](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/honest-isnt-better-than-cent-for-everyone-1529).\n\n-4. [Whaleshares](https://whaleshares.io/).\nI'm not sure what Whaleshares is or how it functions.\nI'm still trying to sign up.\n\n-5. [PornHub](https://pornhub.com/).\nWell, you don't have to post just porn there, [as Disenthrall found out](https://www.pornhub.com/users/disenthrall).\n\nAnd now, for some miscellaneous stuff...\n\nThere are also alternative videos sites:\n-1. [D.tube](https://d.tube/).\nD.tube is connected with Steemit. Whatever you post to D.tube is posted to your Steemit. \nI've been having the darndest time uploading videos to there though.\n\n-2. [Keyport.tv](https://keyport.tv/).\nYou log into Keyport via your HandCash, which uses BSV.\nKeyport is currently down and under development.\n\nYou can earn for each minute/second of content of yours that people watch, or you can set it for free, and people only pay the fee for the video to be seen via the service... I think. I've had more success with uploading to Keyport than I have with D.tube, although it's still quite difficult and generally I can only post short clips, although I've seen others post much longer ones.\n\n-3. [BitChute](https://www.bitchute.com/).\nBitChute enables you to hook up your YouTube to make your content more resistant to censorship. It can be a bit of a process, but quite worth it in this censorship day and age of YouTube.\n\n-4. [Bit.tube](https://bit.tube)\nI haven't had much experience with Bit.tube, but here's a mention for it. \nBut [here's a video from Disenthrall about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoAc3joKcLk).\n\nAs well, there are alternate audio sites:\n-1. [CastBox](https://castbox.fm/).\n-2. [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/).\n\nThere are also up-and-coming sites:\n-1. [Trybe](https://trybe.com/).\n-2. [Yen](https://yen.io/)\n\nThere's is also a push to include adult content on the blockchain:\n-1. [SpankChain](https://spankchain.com/).\nSpankChain, where you can be [tipped](https://medium.com/spankchain/spankchain-com-adult-entertainment-on-the-blockchain-e1645a80fcdb) in [crypto](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zarastone/2017/10/25/how-spankchain-an-x-rated-blockchain-plans-to-provide-pornstars-with-better-payment-plans/#556759236594).\n\n[I'm on Chaturbate](https://chaturbate.com/p/shyguy76767/), and the difference of difficulty for signing up is quite apparent, as while on Chaturbate you don't need to give your information to watch, unless you're also a performer yourself, you have to give all that information (like your license) upfront. The process, I've found, is much more difficulty than I was expecting, and I still haven't signed up.\n\n-2. [Tube8](https://blockchain.porn/2018/08/27/get-paid-for-watching-porn-on-the-blockchain/).\n\nThis certainly got exhausting to write. \nIt's also going to be exhausting to cross-post.\nHowever, this is one of the few posts where cross-posting is relevant, makes sense, and matters.\n\nThat's weird that it was so easy to copy-paste from [Weku](https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/memo-facebook-and-cent-an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-why) to [Yours](https://www.yours.org/content/memo--facebook--and-cent--an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-w-2385113189e0). I like that.\n[Minds](https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/943367904850948096)\n[Honest](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/memo-facebook-and-cent-an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-why-2379/)\nI like how [Ello](https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/aoklbbqavqtk0jvmi2m87a) automatically includes the Weku format into links. [Cent](https://beta.cent.co/+k96cwb), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/somethingsea/posts/2497446616995328), [Memo](https://memo.cash/post/58ede10f3fe13f44a80fef5daa19ac83a6b3820a11b59e16cc0ac3f93fbd7554), [Bitbacker](https://bitbacker.io/posts/2056/), [Steemit](https://steemit.com/update/@somethingsea/memo-facebook-and-cent-an-update-of-the-social-networks-i-use-and-why)", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:943367904850948096/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932961891829657600", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "Smoke.io: Off-Topic Not Allowed?<br /><br />I've been using Smoke the same way that I use the other social networks sites I've been testing.<br /><br />I was informed on my last post<br /><a href=\"https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/patreon-protest-unlisted-youtube-about-keyport-on-memo-with-alts-steemit-weku-honest-cash\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/patreon-protest-unlisted-youtube-about-keyport-on-memo-with-alts-steemit-weku-honest-cash</a> <br />that that's maybe not a good idea, per the <br />Community Guildlines <a href=\"https://docs.smoke.io/#/contentguideline\" target=\"_blank\">https://docs.smoke.io/#/contentguideline</a>).<br /><br />But, I don't see anything prohibiting the creation of \"off-topic\" content... and why is there even such a topic, then? What will happen if I continue posting here on Off-Topic?<br />Will my account be banned? Disabled?<br /><br />Why wouldn't the Smoke community welcome more stuff and topics than just marijuana? I'm going to look for the contact stuff and talk with the founders or customer support of this site.<br /><br />On Smoke <a href=\"https://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/smoke-io-off-topic-not-allowed\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/smoke-io-off-topic-not-allowed</a><br />Weku <a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/smoke-io-off-topic-not-allowed\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/smoke-io-off-topic-not-allowed</a><br />ello <a href=\"https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/psbsbhcadtoct9jt1_zveq\" target=\"_blank\">https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/psbsbhcadtoct9jt1_zveq</a><br />Yours <a href=\"https://www.yours.org/content/smokeio--off-topic-not-allowed--c9625e32a9ff\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org/content/smokeio--off-topic-not-allowed--c9625e32a9ff</a><br />Cent <a href=\"https://beta.cent.co/+9fm6zk\" target=\"_blank\">https://beta.cent.co/+9fm6zk</a><br />Minds <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932961891829657600\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932961891829657600</a><br />Memo <a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/f599ba522540fe97308a00d70292b4495bbb12be15debddc3cc176dd4c388dba\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/f599ba522540fe97308a00d70292b4495bbb12be15debddc3cc176dd4c388dba</a><br />Bitbacker <a href=\"https://o.ello.co/https://bitbacker.io/posts/1237/\" target=\"_blank\">https://o.ello.co/https://bitbacker.io/posts/1237/</a><br />Honest <a href=\"https://o.ello.co/https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/smokeio-off-topic-not-allowed-1642/\" target=\"_blank\">https://o.ello.co/https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/smokeio-off-topic-not-allowed-1642/</a><br /><br />It's actually easier to edit on Cent than Yours.", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932961891829657600", "published": "2019-01-18T11:37:28+00:00", "source": { "content": "Smoke.io: Off-Topic Not Allowed?\n\nI've been using Smoke the same way that I use the other social networks sites I've been testing.\n\nI was informed on my last post\nhttps://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/patreon-protest-unlisted-youtube-about-keyport-on-memo-with-alts-steemit-weku-honest-cash \nthat that's maybe not a good idea, per the \nCommunity Guildlines https://docs.smoke.io/#/contentguideline).\n\nBut, I don't see anything prohibiting the creation of \"off-topic\" content... and why is there even such a topic, then? What will happen if I continue posting here on Off-Topic?\nWill my account be banned? Disabled?\n\nWhy wouldn't the Smoke community welcome more stuff and topics than just marijuana? I'm going to look for the contact stuff and talk with the founders or customer support of this site.\n\nOn Smoke https://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/smoke-io-off-topic-not-allowed\nWeku https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/smoke-io-off-topic-not-allowed\nello https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/psbsbhcadtoct9jt1_zveq\nYours https://www.yours.org/content/smokeio--off-topic-not-allowed--c9625e32a9ff\nCent https://beta.cent.co/+9fm6zk\nMinds https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932961891829657600\nMemo https://memo.cash/post/f599ba522540fe97308a00d70292b4495bbb12be15debddc3cc176dd4c388dba\nBitbacker https://o.ello.co/https://bitbacker.io/posts/1237/\nHonest https://o.ello.co/https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/smokeio-off-topic-not-allowed-1642/\n\nIt's actually easier to edit on Cent than Yours.", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932961891829657600/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932907111295737856", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "And I Can Log In Now!<br /><br />I made a new Castbox account?<br /><a href=\"https://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/i-made-a-new-castbox\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/i-made-a-new-castbox</a><br /><a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/i-made-a-new-castbox-account\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/i-made-a-new-castbox-account</a><br /><br />Minds <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932907111295737856\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932907111295737856</a><br />ello <a href=\"https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/e7uj_ljrpcoyiwsel8ioeg\" target=\"_blank\">https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/e7uj_ljrpcoyiwsel8ioeg</a><br />Bitbacker <a href=\"https://bitbacker.io/posts/1234/\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitbacker.io/posts/1234/</a><br /><br />Weku <a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/and-i-can-log-in-now\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/and-i-can-log-in-now</a><br />Smoke <a href=\"https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/and-i-can-log-in-now\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/and-i-can-log-in-now</a><br /><br />Smoke is much kinder for editing in several ways:<br />1. It has an app.<br />2. I can just hold at the end of the line of text to paste, instead of putting in text like on Weku.<br />3. Four features - Commenting, editing, deleting, Link to post - at bottom of post, in that order. <br /><br />It's taking a bit to get used to but I really like it.<br /><br />And now on <br />Yours <a href=\"https://www.yours.org/content/and-i-can-log-in-now--feda317b5844\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org/content/and-i-can-log-in-now--feda317b5844</a><br />Cent <a href=\"https://beta.cent.co/+dvfp40\" target=\"_blank\">https://beta.cent.co/+dvfp40</a><br />Honest <a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/and-i-can-log-in-now-1622/\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/and-i-can-log-in-now-1622/</a><br />Memo <a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/555ab19281f80a0f984f8e2f884c9826c33d444b89902bb0777c5408dc5d8679\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/555ab19281f80a0f984f8e2f884c9826c33d444b89902bb0777c5408dc5d8679</a>)<br /><br />(Well I'm glad copy+paste from ello to Yours works)<br />Castbox episodes:<br />1. Multiple Castbox Audio Episodes On Smoke.io Via Editing <a href=\"https://castbox.fm/vb/121041905\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/vb/121041905</a><br />2. Not Just Smoke.io, but eSteem too! <a href=\"https://castbox.fm/vb/121046034\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/vb/121046034</a><br />3. When Can't I Update? Does It Matter? <a href=\"https://castbox.fm/vb/121083403\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/vb/121083403</a><br />4. Use eSteem To Bypass Steemit Failure <a href=\"https://castbox.fm/vb/121092575\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/vb/121092575</a><br />5. eSteem!... Or Not. Picture test from Trello <a href=\"https://castbox.fm/vb/121107408\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/vb/121107408</a><br /><br />\"16 Social Networks\"<br /><a href=\"https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932907111295737856", "published": "2019-01-18T07:59:47+00:00", "source": { "content": "And I Can Log In Now!\n\nI made a new Castbox account?\nhttps://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/i-made-a-new-castbox\nhttps://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/i-made-a-new-castbox-account\n\nMinds https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932907111295737856\nello https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/e7uj_ljrpcoyiwsel8ioeg\nBitbacker https://bitbacker.io/posts/1234/\n\nWeku https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/and-i-can-log-in-now\nSmoke https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/and-i-can-log-in-now\n\nSmoke is much kinder for editing in several ways:\n1. It has an app.\n2. I can just hold at the end of the line of text to paste, instead of putting in text like on Weku.\n3. Four features - Commenting, editing, deleting, Link to post - at bottom of post, in that order. \n\nIt's taking a bit to get used to but I really like it.\n\nAnd now on \nYours https://www.yours.org/content/and-i-can-log-in-now--feda317b5844\nCent https://beta.cent.co/+dvfp40\nHonest https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/and-i-can-log-in-now-1622/\nMemo https://memo.cash/post/555ab19281f80a0f984f8e2f884c9826c33d444b89902bb0777c5408dc5d8679)\n\n(Well I'm glad copy+paste from ello to Yours works)\nCastbox episodes:\n1. Multiple Castbox Audio Episodes On Smoke.io Via Editing https://castbox.fm/vb/121041905\n2. Not Just Smoke.io, but eSteem too! https://castbox.fm/vb/121046034\n3. When Can't I Update? Does It Matter? https://castbox.fm/vb/121083403\n4. Use eSteem To Bypass Steemit Failure https://castbox.fm/vb/121092575\n5. eSteem!... Or Not. Picture test from Trello https://castbox.fm/vb/121107408\n\n\"16 Social Networks\"\nhttps://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932907111295737856/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932898829404446720", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "I made a new Castbox account?<br /><br />An episode from the previous one popped up<br /><a href=\"https://castbox.fm/vb/120116075\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/vb/120116075</a><br />=<br />I'm combining this with Smoke.io, a Weku/Steemit... clone? that is free to post on? compared with Sola and Steemit<br /><br />Smoke<br /><a href=\"https://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/i-made-a-new-castbox\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/i-made-a-new-castbox</a><br />Sola<br /><a href=\"https://sola.ai/sean_9c139/i-don-t-know-what-this-is-but-it-s-incredible-does-it-link-i-NTgwODZ?r=sean_9c139\" target=\"_blank\">https://sola.ai/sean_9c139/i-don-t-know-what-this-is-but-it-s-incredible-does-it-link-i-NTgwODZ?r=sean_9c139</a><br />\"Steemit\" (Weku)<br /><a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola</a><br /><br />Minds has a admissible format to Castbox and is editable, as contrasted with Bitbacker; ello is similar to minds in this way too<br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932898829404446720\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932898829404446720</a><br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932898829404446720", "published": "2019-01-18T07:26:53+00:00", "source": { "content": "I made a new Castbox account?\n\nAn episode from the previous one popped up\nhttps://castbox.fm/vb/120116075\n=\nI'm combining this with Smoke.io, a Weku/Steemit... clone? that is free to post on? compared with Sola and Steemit\n\nSmoke\nhttps://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/i-made-a-new-castbox\nSola\nhttps://sola.ai/sean_9c139/i-don-t-know-what-this-is-but-it-s-incredible-does-it-link-i-NTgwODZ?r=sean_9c139\n\"Steemit\" (Weku)\nhttps://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola\n\nMinds has a admissible format to Castbox and is editable, as contrasted with Bitbacker; ello is similar to minds in this way too\nhttps://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932898829404446720\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932898829404446720/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932805223598514176", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "16 Interconneected Social Networks: Yours, Sola, CastBox (Audio/Podcast w/ pause&linking), Steemit, Honest, Cent, Weku, Smoke, ello, D.tube, Keyport, ello, Minds, BitBacker, Chaturbate, Pornhub, Memo<br /><br /><a href=\"https://castbox.fm/vb/120956906\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/vb/120956906</a><br /><br />1. Yours <a href=\"https://www.yours.org/content/14-interconneected-social-networks--yours--sola--castbox--audio-podcas-21fdeca67c46\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org/content/14-interconneected-social-networks--yours--sola--castbox--audio-podcas-21fdeca67c46</a>, <br />2. Sola, <br />3. CastBox <a href=\"https://castbox.fm/vb/121092575\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/vb/121092575</a> (Audio/Podcast w/ pause&linking)<br />4. Steemit (broadcast error) - [Use eSteem To Bypass Steemit Failure] <a href=\"https://castbox.fm/vb/121092575\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/vb/121092575</a> ...[Or Not (Trello Instead?)] <a href=\"https://castbox.fm/vb/121107408\" target=\"_blank\">https://castbox.fm/vb/121107408</a> , <br />5. Honest <a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/13-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audiopodcast-with-pauseandlinking-honest-cent-weku-ello-steemit-minds-bitbacker-chaturbate-pornhub-memo-1604/\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/13-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audiopodcast-with-pauseandlinking-honest-cent-weku-ello-steemit-minds-bitbacker-chaturbate-pornhub-memo-1604/</a><br />6. Cent <a href=\"https://beta.cent.co/+r6w7hc\" target=\"_blank\">https://beta.cent.co/+r6w7hc</a><br />7. Weku <a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola</a><br />8. Smoke <a href=\"https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola</a><br />9. ello <a href=\"https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/few2iyovk4mkabp667bfhq\" target=\"_blank\">https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/few2iyovk4mkabp667bfhq</a><br />10. D.tube <br />11. Keyport<br />12. Minds <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932805223598514176\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932805223598514176</a><br />13. BitBacker <a href=\"https://bitbacker.io/posts/1222/\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitbacker.io/posts/1222/</a><br />14. Chaturbate <a href=\"https://chaturbate.com/b/shyguy76767/\" target=\"_blank\">https://chaturbate.com/b/shyguy76767/</a><br />15. Pornhub, <br />16. Memo <a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/837e90d614e9b430cc4ddca324223e15e7c1fd2cd2171a1187ed349e7abf80eb\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/837e90d614e9b430cc4ddca324223e15e7c1fd2cd2171a1187ed349e7abf80eb</a><br /><br />[Hi. Two Questions - 1. Is this site a clone of Weku? 2. Smoking Violation Of TOS?]<br /><a href=\"https://smoke.io/legalize/@anarchovegan/hi-two-questions-1-is-this-site-a-clone-of-weku-2-smoking-violation-of-tos\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/legalize/@anarchovegan/hi-two-questions-1-is-this-site-a-clone-of-weku-2-smoking-violation-of-tos</a><br /><br />And I Can Log In Now! (On Castbox)<br /><a href=\"https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/and-i-can-log-in-now\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/and-i-can-log-in-now</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932805223598514176", "published": "2019-01-18T01:14:55+00:00", "source": { "content": "16 Interconneected Social Networks: Yours, Sola, CastBox (Audio/Podcast w/ pause&linking), Steemit, Honest, Cent, Weku, Smoke, ello, D.tube, Keyport, ello, Minds, BitBacker, Chaturbate, Pornhub, Memo\n\nhttps://castbox.fm/vb/120956906\n\n1. Yours https://www.yours.org/content/14-interconneected-social-networks--yours--sola--castbox--audio-podcas-21fdeca67c46, \n2. Sola, \n3. CastBox https://castbox.fm/vb/121092575 (Audio/Podcast w/ pause&linking)\n4. Steemit (broadcast error) - [Use eSteem To Bypass Steemit Failure] https://castbox.fm/vb/121092575 ...[Or Not (Trello Instead?)] https://castbox.fm/vb/121107408 , \n5. Honest https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/13-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audiopodcast-with-pauseandlinking-honest-cent-weku-ello-steemit-minds-bitbacker-chaturbate-pornhub-memo-1604/\n6. Cent https://beta.cent.co/+r6w7hc\n7. Weku https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola\n8. Smoke https://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/14-interconneected-social-networks-yours-sola-castbox-audio-podcast-w-pause-and-linking-honest-cent-weku-smoke-yours-sola\n9. ello https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/few2iyovk4mkabp667bfhq\n10. D.tube \n11. Keyport\n12. Minds https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932805223598514176\n13. BitBacker https://bitbacker.io/posts/1222/\n14. Chaturbate https://chaturbate.com/b/shyguy76767/\n15. Pornhub, \n16. Memo https://memo.cash/post/837e90d614e9b430cc4ddca324223e15e7c1fd2cd2171a1187ed349e7abf80eb\n\n[Hi. Two Questions - 1. Is this site a clone of Weku? 2. Smoking Violation Of TOS?]\nhttps://smoke.io/legalize/@anarchovegan/hi-two-questions-1-is-this-site-a-clone-of-weku-2-smoking-violation-of-tos\n\nAnd I Can Log In Now! (On Castbox)\nhttps://smoke.io/life/@anarchovegan/and-i-can-log-in-now", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932805223598514176/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932741572141244416", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "In starting the book, [The Bullet Method](<a href=\"https://amzn.to/2ASuWLN\" target=\"_blank\">https://amzn.to/2ASuWLN</a>), I found, to my surprise, that <br /># Penguin supports copyright.<br /><i>(And in researching for this post, that [there's an Audible version too](<a href=\"https://amzn.to/2syU3iq\" target=\"_blank\">https://amzn.to/2syU3iq</a>); [but maybe kindle suits you best](<a href=\"https://amzn.to/2swFNqr\" target=\"_blank\">https://amzn.to/2swFNqr</a>).)</i><br />![image](<a href=\"https://img.esteem.ws/xzn2z0ehfw.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">https://img.esteem.ws/xzn2z0ehfw.jpg</a>)<br />![image](<a href=\"https://img.esteem.ws/darssatluk.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">https://img.esteem.ws/darssatluk.jpg</a>)<br /><br />I'm going to look into whether I'd want to <br />Contact Penguin Random House<br />Phone: 212-572-2232<br />Emails: -1) B2B@penguinrandomhouse<br />-2) specialmarkets@penguinrandomhouse.com<br />[Facebook](<a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PenguinRandomHouse\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/PenguinRandomHouse</a>), [Twitter](<a href=\"https://twitter.com/penguinrandom\" target=\"_blank\">https://twitter.com/penguinrandom</a>), [Google +](<a href=\"https://plus.google.com/+PenguinRandomHouse\" target=\"_blank\">https://plus.google.com/+PenguinRandomHouse</a>), [Tumblr](<a href=\"https://penguinrandomhouse.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://penguinrandomhouse.tumblr.com/</a>), <br />[Contact Us 1](<a href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/about-us/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/about-us/contact-us/</a>), [Contact Us 2](<a href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/contact-us/</a>), [Contact Us 3](<a href=\"http://foundation.penguinrandomhouse.com/contact-us/\" target=\"_blank\">http://foundation.penguinrandomhouse.com/contact-us/</a>), [Permissions](<a href=\"https://permissions.penguinrandomhouse.com/contact_us.php\" target=\"_blank\">https://permissions.penguinrandomhouse.com/contact_us.php</a>), [Find offices](<a href=\"https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/offices/\" target=\"_blank\">https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/offices/</a>)<br /><br />and send them this post and/or one drafted with a personalized response to any struggles they might be facing, advocate for [Copyleft](<a href=\"https://www.copyleft.org/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.copyleft.org/</a>), [Creative Commons](<a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/\" target=\"_blank\">https://creativecommons.org/</a>), and social networks that use peer-to-peer micropayments, such as:<br /><br />1. [Cent](beta.cent.co), where you could have readers choose between what stories they'd like you to write next - and both you and they make money from it (it might be on Ethereum, but it doesn't <i>have</i> to be), <br /><br />2. [Steemit](steemit.com), the first and famous one, much like Bitcoin BTC, but which ultimately (I think) might not be ideal, especially given the long payout structure, <br /><br />3. [Honest](honest.cash), currently my favorite long-form writing one, that I use alongside <br /><br />4. [Memo](memo.cash) to \"Tweet\" the longform title with a link, or talk with others about anything, though often the news surrounding crypto, and <br /><br />5. [Weku](weku.io) - [which has a referral program - (sign up with this link)](<a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/pick_account?referral=anarchovegan7\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/pick_account?referral=anarchovegan7</a>), <br /><br /><i>(I left the esteem app to log in to Weku via an app where I'd saved the password, and the pictures and text saved when I came back, even though the app had to reload! Such a relief! Take note, forgetful fellow writers in want of the \"draft saved\" feature saving you a headache.)</i> <br /><br />as the new way for authors to make more money, give customers an enhanced experience, and increase sales.<br /><br />Penguin, [Your News could be earning on Cent, Honest, Yours, or Steemit](<a href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/about-us/news/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/about-us/news/</a>).<br /><br />I start on eSteem if I'm taking a picture - such as that copyright one that surprised me - and, using Trello, putting links into the proper format <i>(that was the first time I saw that (I wonder if at some point people would claim the Mandela Effect of it?))</i>; Memo if I just have [a short thought or idea I want to blurt](<a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/edebd0a571588744da2b50958784fe53fae3b9d919258d0aa418ae9c9aa9fb90\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/edebd0a571588744da2b50958784fe53fae3b9d919258d0aa418ae9c9aa9fb90</a>) (like people do on Twitter, right); honest if [I have](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/why-i-now-agree-with-ryan-on-sv-844\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/why-i-now-agree-with-ryan-on-sv-844</a>) something [in mind](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/hello-cent-im-going-to-blog-my-learning-you-1362\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/hello-cent-im-going-to-blog-my-learning-you-1362</a>) that [I want](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/ill-take-my-social-business-elsewhere-cent-1400\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/ill-take-my-social-business-elsewhere-cent-1400</a>) to write or [want to do](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/blockstream-sellouts-credit-cards-greater-crypto-1546\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/blockstream-sellouts-credit-cards-greater-crypto-1546</a>) research [for](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/-ed-defends-socialism-1557\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/-ed-defends-socialism-1557</a>) Memo [conversations](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/gillette-the-falling-monopoly-1563\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/gillette-the-falling-monopoly-1563</a>).<br /><br />I copied this article from <br />1. ([Steemit](<a href=\"https://steemit.com/penguin/@somethingsea/happy-customers-profit-and-fun-invitation-to-penguin-copyleft-and-micro-payment-social-networks-742e4ae29b5ad\" target=\"_blank\">https://steemit.com/penguin/@somethingsea/happy-customers-profit-and-fun-invitation-to-penguin-copyleft-and-micro-payment-social-networks-742e4ae29b5ad</a>) to [Weku](<a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/happy-customers-profit-and-fun-invitation-to-penguin-copyleft-and-micro-payment-social-networks\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/happy-customers-profit-and-fun-invitation-to-penguin-copyleft-and-micro-payment-social-networks</a>))[hyperlinking via markdown + image worked], <br />2. ([Yours](<a href=\"https://www.yours.org/content/happy-customers--profit--and-fun--invitation-to-penguin---copyleft-and-138682b1cd32\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org/content/happy-customers--profit--and-fun--invitation-to-penguin---copyleft-and-138682b1cd32</a>), [Cent](<a href=\"https://beta.cent.co/+xumgo0\" target=\"_blank\">https://beta.cent.co/+xumgo0</a>), [Honest](<a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/happy-customers-profit-and-fun-invitation-to-penguin-copyleft-and-micro-payment-social-networks-1597/\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/happy-customers-profit-and-fun-invitation-to-penguin-copyleft-and-micro-payment-social-networks-1597/</a>))[hyperlinking via highlighting & image format revision], <br />3. ([ello](<a href=\"https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/rappu4fs3xvxvc0necsvpa\" target=\"_blank\">https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/rappu4fs3xvxvc0necsvpa</a>), [Minds]())[no hyperlinking], <br />4. (Bitbacker, and finally Memo)[no hyperlinking or editing]. <br /><br />I updated and shortened the screenshots without needing to press \"SAVE\" once:<br />![image](<a href=\"https://img.esteem.ws/w7bjbrch4y.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">https://img.esteem.ws/w7bjbrch4y.jpg</a>)<br />![image](<a href=\"https://img.esteem.ws/2gctivihg8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">https://img.esteem.ws/2gctivihg8.jpg</a>)<br /><br />That was the original title I had in mind. I wanted to make a really short URL to put with it on Memo. <br />I guess not. So, I made it shorter.<br />I didn't include all the details I'd want to, like how since you can't link on memo it would be exempt as well. Maybe I should do that for giggles and laughs.<br /><br />\"More Of Everything - Happy Customers, Money, And Fun: An Invitation To Peguin To The Advanced Copyleft Of The New Peer-To-Peer Social Network Of Tomorrow, Today (Links With Live Examples Evolving As You Read This Exceedingly Long Title - CONGRATULATIONS! Claim Your Opportunity By Clicking This Link (title whereever not hyperlinked, including but not limited to the following page and description of the following domains: memo.cash, ello.co, bitbacker.io, minds.com, exempt from click offer; please redeem at beta.cent.io, honest.cash, steemit.com, ello.co, or yours.org))\"<br /><br />![image](<a href=\"https://img.esteem.ws/x8c66fwvax.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">https://img.esteem.ws/x8c66fwvax.jpg</a>)<br /><br />Maybe I'll make another one when I've got the specific domains to include, though that does seem to take the joke too far.<br /><br />Point is, you can very casually do in-depth editing and revision before a single person (besides yourself obviously) lays eyes on any of this, making it look professional from the start with ease:<br /># <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=BeYourOwnPublisher\" title=\"#BeYourOwnPublisher\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#BeYourOwnPublisher</a>!<br /><br />Why [CopyLeft](<a href=\"https://www.copyleft.org/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.copyleft.org/</a>)?<br /><br />To avoid bankruptcy (Cotton Mill 28-29:55, Wright Brothers 29:55-32:14, Alexander Graham Bell 32:14-32:21 [Software](<a href=\"https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/</a>) 33:14-33:35),<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSMDcm434B0&amp;t=28m\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSMDcm434B0&amp;t=28m</a><br /><br />as Jeffrey Tucker explains in <br />[The Evils Of Intellectual Property](<a href=\"https://mises.org/library/evils-intellectual-property\" target=\"_blank\">https://mises.org/library/evils-intellectual-property</a>)<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSMDcm434B0\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSMDcm434B0</a><br />His work on Mises is in the [Creative Commons](<a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/\" target=\"_blank\">https://creativecommons.org/</a>), also known by [Copyleft](<a href=\"https://www.copyleft.org/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.copyleft.org/</a>) (33:42-34); unfortunately, if you don't copyright your ideas or someone else can sue you for them (34-34:46), an example of which you can see in Larken Rose's book, The Most Dangerous Superstition [paperback $16](<a href=\"https://amzn.to/2RTXK0j\" target=\"_blank\">https://amzn.to/2RTXK0j</a>), [kindle $7](<a href=\"https://amzn.to/2W1ADzX\" target=\"_blank\">https://amzn.to/2W1ADzX</a>), on the copyright page, which you can also listen to<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0zIvxwVaM\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0zIvxwVaM</a><br /><br />This might be an interesting tidbit:<br />Larken uses alternative donation methods... <br />[On Steemit](<a href=\"https://steemit.com/anarchy/@larkenrose/alms-for-anarchy\" target=\"_blank\">https://steemit.com/anarchy/@larkenrose/alms-for-anarchy</a>)<br /><br />For a bit more scholarly of a work, see <br />[Against Intellectual Property (his website)](<a href=\"http://www.stephankinsella.com/publications/against-intellectual-property/\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.stephankinsella.com/publications/against-intellectual-property/</a>);<br />Amazon: [paperback $5.50](<a href=\"https://amzn.to/2AR2WIC\" target=\"_blank\">https://amzn.to/2AR2WIC</a>), [kindle $2.99](<a href=\"https://amzn.to/2T4zO7W\" target=\"_blank\">https://amzn.to/2T4zO7W</a>), [paperback $49.95](<a href=\"https://amzn.to/2MijSfx\" target=\"_blank\">https://amzn.to/2MijSfx</a>), [hardcover $16.49](<a href=\"https://amzn.to/2T0rzcP\" target=\"_blank\">https://amzn.to/2T0rzcP</a>), [audiobook $4.99](<a href=\"https://amzn.to/2T244QE\" target=\"_blank\">https://amzn.to/2T244QE</a>); <br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAvbWeivv8o\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAvbWeivv8o</a><br />[Goodreads](<a href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1781507.N_Stephan_Kinsella\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1781507.N_Stephan_Kinsella</a>), [mises](<a href=\"https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-2\" target=\"_blank\">https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-2</a>), [archive](<a href=\"https://archive.org/details/AgainstIntellectualProperty/page/n1\" target=\"_blank\">https://archive.org/details/AgainstIntellectualProperty/page/n1</a>).<br /><br />In searching for Tucker's, I also found this:<br />[Working Paper](<a href=\"http://cepr.net/publications/reports/is-intellectual-property-the-root-of-all-evil-patents-copyrights-and-inequality\" target=\"_blank\">http://cepr.net/publications/reports/is-intellectual-property-the-root-of-all-evil-patents-copyrights-and-inequality</a>), [by Dean Baker], presented at [The Great Polarization: Economics, Institutions and Policies](<a href=\"https://economics.utah.edu/great-polarization/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">https://economics.utah.edu/great-polarization/index.php</a>) in the [Age of Inequality conference, University of Utah, Department of Economics](<a href=\"https://economics.utah.edu/great-polarization/conference-participants.php\" target=\"_blank\">https://economics.utah.edu/great-polarization/conference-participants.php</a>), September 27 – 29, 2018:<br />(Online PDF) [Is Intellectual Property the Root of All Evil? Patents, Copyrights, and Inequality](<a href=\"http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/ip-2018-10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/ip-2018-10.pdf</a>)<br />CEPR Seminar 10: Patents, Copyrights, & Other Protectionist Barriers<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAyA9Oegz-o\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAyA9Oegz-o</a><br />He [also has other videos](<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dean+baker+Intellectual+Property\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dean+baker+Intellectual+Property</a>).", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932741572141244416", "published": "2019-01-17T21:02:00+00:00", "source": { "content": "In starting the book, [The Bullet Method](https://amzn.to/2ASuWLN), I found, to my surprise, that \n# Penguin supports copyright.\n<i>(And in researching for this post, that [there's an Audible version too](https://amzn.to/2syU3iq); [but maybe kindle suits you best](https://amzn.to/2swFNqr).)</i>\n![image](https://img.esteem.ws/xzn2z0ehfw.jpg)\n![image](https://img.esteem.ws/darssatluk.jpg)\n\nI'm going to look into whether I'd want to \nContact Penguin Random House\nPhone: 212-572-2232\nEmails: -1) B2B@penguinrandomhouse\n-2) specialmarkets@penguinrandomhouse.com\n[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/PenguinRandomHouse), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/penguinrandom), [Google +](https://plus.google.com/+PenguinRandomHouse), [Tumblr](https://penguinrandomhouse.tumblr.com/), \n[Contact Us 1](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/about-us/contact-us/), [Contact Us 2](https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/contact-us/), [Contact Us 3](http://foundation.penguinrandomhouse.com/contact-us/), [Permissions](https://permissions.penguinrandomhouse.com/contact_us.php), [Find offices](https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/offices/)\n\nand send them this post and/or one drafted with a personalized response to any struggles they might be facing, advocate for [Copyleft](https://www.copyleft.org/), [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/), and social networks that use peer-to-peer micropayments, such as:\n\n1. [Cent](beta.cent.co), where you could have readers choose between what stories they'd like you to write next - and both you and they make money from it (it might be on Ethereum, but it doesn't <i>have</i> to be), \n\n2. [Steemit](steemit.com), the first and famous one, much like Bitcoin BTC, but which ultimately (I think) might not be ideal, especially given the long payout structure, \n\n3. [Honest](honest.cash), currently my favorite long-form writing one, that I use alongside \n\n4. [Memo](memo.cash) to \"Tweet\" the longform title with a link, or talk with others about anything, though often the news surrounding crypto, and \n\n5. [Weku](weku.io) - [which has a referral program - (sign up with this link)](https://deals.weku.io/pick_account?referral=anarchovegan7), \n\n<i>(I left the esteem app to log in to Weku via an app where I'd saved the password, and the pictures and text saved when I came back, even though the app had to reload! Such a relief! Take note, forgetful fellow writers in want of the \"draft saved\" feature saving you a headache.)</i> \n\nas the new way for authors to make more money, give customers an enhanced experience, and increase sales.\n\nPenguin, [Your News could be earning on Cent, Honest, Yours, or Steemit](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/about-us/news/).\n\nI start on eSteem if I'm taking a picture - such as that copyright one that surprised me - and, using Trello, putting links into the proper format <i>(that was the first time I saw that (I wonder if at some point people would claim the Mandela Effect of it?))</i>; Memo if I just have [a short thought or idea I want to blurt](https://memo.cash/post/edebd0a571588744da2b50958784fe53fae3b9d919258d0aa418ae9c9aa9fb90) (like people do on Twitter, right); honest if [I have](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/why-i-now-agree-with-ryan-on-sv-844) something [in mind](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/hello-cent-im-going-to-blog-my-learning-you-1362) that [I want](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/ill-take-my-social-business-elsewhere-cent-1400) to write or [want to do](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/blockstream-sellouts-credit-cards-greater-crypto-1546) research [for](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/-ed-defends-socialism-1557) Memo [conversations](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/gillette-the-falling-monopoly-1563).\n\nI copied this article from \n1. ([Steemit](https://steemit.com/penguin/@somethingsea/happy-customers-profit-and-fun-invitation-to-penguin-copyleft-and-micro-payment-social-networks-742e4ae29b5ad) to [Weku](https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/happy-customers-profit-and-fun-invitation-to-penguin-copyleft-and-micro-payment-social-networks))[hyperlinking via markdown + image worked], \n2. ([Yours](https://www.yours.org/content/happy-customers--profit--and-fun--invitation-to-penguin---copyleft-and-138682b1cd32), [Cent](https://beta.cent.co/+xumgo0), [Honest](https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/happy-customers-profit-and-fun-invitation-to-penguin-copyleft-and-micro-payment-social-networks-1597/))[hyperlinking via highlighting & image format revision], \n3. ([ello](https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/rappu4fs3xvxvc0necsvpa), [Minds]())[no hyperlinking], \n4. (Bitbacker, and finally Memo)[no hyperlinking or editing]. \n\nI updated and shortened the screenshots without needing to press \"SAVE\" once:\n![image](https://img.esteem.ws/w7bjbrch4y.jpg)\n![image](https://img.esteem.ws/2gctivihg8.jpg)\n\nThat was the original title I had in mind. I wanted to make a really short URL to put with it on Memo. \nI guess not. So, I made it shorter.\nI didn't include all the details I'd want to, like how since you can't link on memo it would be exempt as well. Maybe I should do that for giggles and laughs.\n\n\"More Of Everything - Happy Customers, Money, And Fun: An Invitation To Peguin To The Advanced Copyleft Of The New Peer-To-Peer Social Network Of Tomorrow, Today (Links With Live Examples Evolving As You Read This Exceedingly Long Title - CONGRATULATIONS! Claim Your Opportunity By Clicking This Link (title whereever not hyperlinked, including but not limited to the following page and description of the following domains: memo.cash, ello.co, bitbacker.io, minds.com, exempt from click offer; please redeem at beta.cent.io, honest.cash, steemit.com, ello.co, or yours.org))\"\n\n![image](https://img.esteem.ws/x8c66fwvax.jpg)\n\nMaybe I'll make another one when I've got the specific domains to include, though that does seem to take the joke too far.\n\nPoint is, you can very casually do in-depth editing and revision before a single person (besides yourself obviously) lays eyes on any of this, making it look professional from the start with ease:\n# #BeYourOwnPublisher!\n\nWhy [CopyLeft](https://www.copyleft.org/)?\n\nTo avoid bankruptcy (Cotton Mill 28-29:55, Wright Brothers 29:55-32:14, Alexander Graham Bell 32:14-32:21 [Software](https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/) 33:14-33:35),\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSMDcm434B0&t=28m\n\nas Jeffrey Tucker explains in \n[The Evils Of Intellectual Property](https://mises.org/library/evils-intellectual-property)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSMDcm434B0\nHis work on Mises is in the [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/), also known by [Copyleft](https://www.copyleft.org/) (33:42-34); unfortunately, if you don't copyright your ideas or someone else can sue you for them (34-34:46), an example of which you can see in Larken Rose's book, The Most Dangerous Superstition [paperback $16](https://amzn.to/2RTXK0j), [kindle $7](https://amzn.to/2W1ADzX), on the copyright page, which you can also listen to\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0zIvxwVaM\n\nThis might be an interesting tidbit:\nLarken uses alternative donation methods... \n[On Steemit](https://steemit.com/anarchy/@larkenrose/alms-for-anarchy)\n\nFor a bit more scholarly of a work, see \n[Against Intellectual Property (his website)](http://www.stephankinsella.com/publications/against-intellectual-property/);\nAmazon: [paperback $5.50](https://amzn.to/2AR2WIC), [kindle $2.99](https://amzn.to/2T4zO7W), [paperback $49.95](https://amzn.to/2MijSfx), [hardcover $16.49](https://amzn.to/2T0rzcP), [audiobook $4.99](https://amzn.to/2T244QE); \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAvbWeivv8o\n[Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1781507.N_Stephan_Kinsella), [mises](https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-2), [archive](https://archive.org/details/AgainstIntellectualProperty/page/n1).\n\nIn searching for Tucker's, I also found this:\n[Working Paper](http://cepr.net/publications/reports/is-intellectual-property-the-root-of-all-evil-patents-copyrights-and-inequality), [by Dean Baker], presented at [The Great Polarization: Economics, Institutions and Policies](https://economics.utah.edu/great-polarization/index.php) in the [Age of Inequality conference, University of Utah, Department of Economics](https://economics.utah.edu/great-polarization/conference-participants.php), September 27 – 29, 2018:\n(Online PDF) [Is Intellectual Property the Root of All Evil? Patents, Copyrights, and Inequality](http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/ip-2018-10.pdf)\nCEPR Seminar 10: Patents, Copyrights, & Other Protectionist Barriers\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAyA9Oegz-o\nHe [also has other videos](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dean+baker+Intellectual+Property).", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932741572141244416/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932346418547728384", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "Gillette: The Falling Monopoly<br /><br />Prodded by a video by [Disenthrall](<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4XNzvyaglU\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4XNzvyaglU</a>), [bobymicjohn](<a href=\"https://memo.cash/profile/13nAaX8JRoUXk6VomdTznr8PMPDrHU9uwT\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/profile/13nAaX8JRoUXk6VomdTznr8PMPDrHU9uwT</a>) [argues that](<a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/913264532aaf3224bc70ed914c32206ea5607230c3649fc14d1e937541fcbaaa\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/913264532aaf3224bc70ed914c32206ea5607230c3649fc14d1e937541fcbaaa</a>) \"taking a political stance almost never harms a companies sales\"; \"[Gillette's monopoly](<a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/21d4050432c750cba488ef50d38d2dd2b68c76a3f025c1a69cdf39e6e9adf184\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/21d4050432c750cba488ef50d38d2dd2b68c76a3f025c1a69cdf39e6e9adf184</a>)\" - \"[no it's not](<a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/653b395279585ddc110cf0249b48b0045ef8862dd728a2af827fe11362224017\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/653b395279585ddc110cf0249b48b0045ef8862dd728a2af827fe11362224017</a>)\" - \"[as close to a Monopoly](<a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/1803d0ce8bafabcf10f35ea652a81d7adfd9d2a740774634f59e09fc06fb673d\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/1803d0ce8bafabcf10f35ea652a81d7adfd9d2a740774634f59e09fc06fb673d</a>) as possible\" - \"[on men's razors](<a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/21d4050432c750cba488ef50d38d2dd2b68c76a3f025c1a69cdf39e6e9adf184\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/21d4050432c750cba488ef50d38d2dd2b68c76a3f025c1a69cdf39e6e9adf184</a>) isn't going anywhere any time soon, no matter what political stance they take.\"<br /><br />Interesting. Is Gillette a monopoly?<br /><br />\"**[This has nothing to do with design.](<a href=\"https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Gillette-has-a-monopoly-in-shaving-razors-non-disposable-ones-Why-hasnt-the-design-been-pirated-so-far\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Gillette-has-a-monopoly-in-shaving-razors-non-disposable-ones-Why-hasnt-the-design-been-pirated-so-far</a>)**\" \"This excellent Quora thread:\"<br />\"[Have the razor companies formed a cartel](<a href=\"https://www.quora.com/Why-are-disposable-razor-blades-so-expensive-A-set-of-new-blades-from-a-name-brand-manufacturer-is-typically-25-30-Is-this-an-accurate-reflection-of-manufacturing-and-marketing-costs-or-have-the-major-manufacturers-formed-a-cartel\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.quora.com/Why-are-disposable-razor-blades-so-expensive-A-set-of-new-blades-from-a-name-brand-manufacturer-is-typically-25-30-Is-this-an-accurate-reflection-of-manufacturing-and-marketing-costs-or-have-the-major-manufacturers-formed-a-cartel</a>)? Given the fact that Gillette has a 70% share in razors, this becomes sort of an odd question. Gillette is a one-shop cartel, or basically as close to a monopoly as you can get in the U.S. However, their power comes not from crushing competition by undercutting them on price (as you've noted, razors cost a pretty penny) but by outcompeting/outspending them in advertising. They simply have more \"mind\"-share than other razors, and consumer behavior (which one could argue is totally irrational) simply shows that men are rather price insensitive when it comes to razors. In fact, that sort of price insensitivity extends to much of the toiletry and household goods space (think Crest, Kleenex, Tylenol, Dove, etc.). \"<br /><br />\"[Dollar Shave Club is a cool startup](<a href=\"https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Gillette-has-a-monopoly-in-shaving-razors-non-disposable-ones-Why-hasnt-the-design-been-pirated-so-far\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Gillette-has-a-monopoly-in-shaving-razors-non-disposable-ones-Why-hasnt-the-design-been-pirated-so-far</a>) (I'm not affiliated) that is trying to bust open this market.\" \"[- until Gillette sued.](<a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/1803d0ce8bafabcf10f35ea652a81d7adfd9d2a740774634f59e09fc06fb673d\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/1803d0ce8bafabcf10f35ea652a81d7adfd9d2a740774634f59e09fc06fb673d</a>)\"<br /><br />My my. Well, [here](<a href=\"http://wild.link/fool/ANKjCQ\" target=\"_blank\">http://wild.link/fool/ANKjCQ</a>) [are](<a href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/12/17/gillette-sues-dollar-shave-club-for-patent-infringement/WCl1FrIZjCb093OBWUCZhL/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/12/17/gillette-sues-dollar-shave-club-for-patent-infringement/WCl1FrIZjCb093OBWUCZhL/story.html</a>) [a few](<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/p-gs-gillette-sues-dollar-shave-club-1450371180\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.wsj.com/articles/p-gs-gillette-sues-dollar-shave-club-1450371180</a>) articles about that. They're 2015.<br /><br />[This article](<a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/04/03/dollar-shave-club-breaking-the-razor-blade-monopoly/#3c93be067ded\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/04/03/dollar-shave-club-breaking-the-razor-blade-monopoly/#3c93be067ded</a>) is 2012.<br /><br />[On the DollarShaveClub YouTube video](<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI</a>), looks like people are piling on:<br />\"Since Gillette seems to hate men, happy to be here :D I hope you like my money more than they did.\"<br />\"No longer buying Gillette, screw Procter&Gamble!\"<br />\"Get ready for an influx of sales\"<br />\"just restored my sanity after gillette ad\"<br />\"I though this ad was pure genius at selling your product but Gillette came up with even better way to promote your stuff.\"<br />\"Watch and learn, Gillette\"<br />\"Hey look, no disgusting virtue signalling or insinuation that masculinity is toxic. HELLO, Dollar Shave Club!!!\"<br /><br />I could go on, but I think you get the idea.<br />All of these are a day old.<br /><br />Yeah, honestly, I think you're spot-on, boby:<br /><br />***No sales effects whatsoever.***<br /><br />Intro of <br />GILLETTE DESTROYS TOXIC MASCULINITY<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8IW-QJPxM\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8IW-QJPxM</a> reminds me of the Patreon stuff. And, apparently, Ben & Jerry's<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VNSatADfls\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VNSatADfls</a> might be one to look out for, too.<br /><br />Also on: <br />Cent <a href=\"https://beta.cent.co/+uirc2p\" target=\"_blank\">https://beta.cent.co/+uirc2p</a><br />Honest <a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/gillette-the-falling-monopoly-1563/\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/gillette-the-falling-monopoly-1563/</a><br />Yours <a href=\"https://www.yours.org/content/gillette--the-falling-monopoly-d16c38841ae9\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org/content/gillette--the-falling-monopoly-d16c38841ae9</a><br />Steemit <a href=\"https://steemit.com/gillette/@somethingsea/gillette-the-falling-monopoly\" target=\"_blank\">https://steemit.com/gillette/@somethingsea/gillette-the-falling-monopoly</a><br />Weku <a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/gillette-the-falling-monopoly\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/gillette-the-falling-monopoly</a><br />ello <a href=\"https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/-_jiaju3sgr0tq-wlpduha\" target=\"_blank\">https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/-_jiaju3sgr0tq-wlpduha</a><br />Minds <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932346418547728384\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932346418547728384</a><br />Memo <a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/40ac5c4796969766eab29996e81162342dcd0f9989afd52dabae8e36b2467693\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/40ac5c4796969766eab29996e81162342dcd0f9989afd52dabae8e36b2467693</a><br />Bitbacker <a href=\"https://bitbacker.io/posts/1178/\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitbacker.io/posts/1178/</a><br />Smoke <a href=\"https://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/gillette-the-falling-monopoly\" target=\"_blank\">https://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/gillette-the-falling-monopoly</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932346418547728384", "published": "2019-01-16T18:51:48+00:00", "source": { "content": "Gillette: The Falling Monopoly\n\nProdded by a video by [Disenthrall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4XNzvyaglU), [bobymicjohn](https://memo.cash/profile/13nAaX8JRoUXk6VomdTznr8PMPDrHU9uwT) [argues that](https://memo.cash/post/913264532aaf3224bc70ed914c32206ea5607230c3649fc14d1e937541fcbaaa) \"taking a political stance almost never harms a companies sales\"; \"[Gillette's monopoly](https://memo.cash/post/21d4050432c750cba488ef50d38d2dd2b68c76a3f025c1a69cdf39e6e9adf184)\" - \"[no it's not](https://memo.cash/post/653b395279585ddc110cf0249b48b0045ef8862dd728a2af827fe11362224017)\" - \"[as close to a Monopoly](https://memo.cash/post/1803d0ce8bafabcf10f35ea652a81d7adfd9d2a740774634f59e09fc06fb673d) as possible\" - \"[on men's razors](https://memo.cash/post/21d4050432c750cba488ef50d38d2dd2b68c76a3f025c1a69cdf39e6e9adf184) isn't going anywhere any time soon, no matter what political stance they take.\"\n\nInteresting. Is Gillette a monopoly?\n\n\"**[This has nothing to do with design.](https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Gillette-has-a-monopoly-in-shaving-razors-non-disposable-ones-Why-hasnt-the-design-been-pirated-so-far)**\" \"This excellent Quora thread:\"\n\"[Have the razor companies formed a cartel](https://www.quora.com/Why-are-disposable-razor-blades-so-expensive-A-set-of-new-blades-from-a-name-brand-manufacturer-is-typically-25-30-Is-this-an-accurate-reflection-of-manufacturing-and-marketing-costs-or-have-the-major-manufacturers-formed-a-cartel)? Given the fact that Gillette has a 70% share in razors, this becomes sort of an odd question. Gillette is a one-shop cartel, or basically as close to a monopoly as you can get in the U.S. However, their power comes not from crushing competition by undercutting them on price (as you've noted, razors cost a pretty penny) but by outcompeting/outspending them in advertising. They simply have more \"mind\"-share than other razors, and consumer behavior (which one could argue is totally irrational) simply shows that men are rather price insensitive when it comes to razors. In fact, that sort of price insensitivity extends to much of the toiletry and household goods space (think Crest, Kleenex, Tylenol, Dove, etc.). \"\n\n\"[Dollar Shave Club is a cool startup](https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Gillette-has-a-monopoly-in-shaving-razors-non-disposable-ones-Why-hasnt-the-design-been-pirated-so-far) (I'm not affiliated) that is trying to bust open this market.\" \"[- until Gillette sued.](https://memo.cash/post/1803d0ce8bafabcf10f35ea652a81d7adfd9d2a740774634f59e09fc06fb673d)\"\n\nMy my. Well, [here](http://wild.link/fool/ANKjCQ) [are](https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/12/17/gillette-sues-dollar-shave-club-for-patent-infringement/WCl1FrIZjCb093OBWUCZhL/story.html) [a few](https://www.wsj.com/articles/p-gs-gillette-sues-dollar-shave-club-1450371180) articles about that. They're 2015.\n\n[This article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/04/03/dollar-shave-club-breaking-the-razor-blade-monopoly/#3c93be067ded) is 2012.\n\n[On the DollarShaveClub YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI), looks like people are piling on:\n\"Since Gillette seems to hate men, happy to be here :D I hope you like my money more than they did.\"\n\"No longer buying Gillette, screw Procter&Gamble!\"\n\"Get ready for an influx of sales\"\n\"just restored my sanity after gillette ad\"\n\"I though this ad was pure genius at selling your product but Gillette came up with even better way to promote your stuff.\"\n\"Watch and learn, Gillette\"\n\"Hey look, no disgusting virtue signalling or insinuation that masculinity is toxic. HELLO, Dollar Shave Club!!!\"\n\nI could go on, but I think you get the idea.\nAll of these are a day old.\n\nYeah, honestly, I think you're spot-on, boby:\n\n***No sales effects whatsoever.***\n\nIntro of \nGILLETTE DESTROYS TOXIC MASCULINITY\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8IW-QJPxM reminds me of the Patreon stuff. And, apparently, Ben & Jerry's\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VNSatADfls might be one to look out for, too.\n\nAlso on: \nCent https://beta.cent.co/+uirc2p\nHonest https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/gillette-the-falling-monopoly-1563/\nYours https://www.yours.org/content/gillette--the-falling-monopoly-d16c38841ae9\nSteemit https://steemit.com/gillette/@somethingsea/gillette-the-falling-monopoly\nWeku https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/gillette-the-falling-monopoly\nello https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/-_jiaju3sgr0tq-wlpduha\nMinds https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932346418547728384\nMemo https://memo.cash/post/40ac5c4796969766eab29996e81162342dcd0f9989afd52dabae8e36b2467693\nBitbacker https://bitbacker.io/posts/1178/\nSmoke https://smoke.io/offtopic/@anarchovegan/gillette-the-falling-monopoly", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932346418547728384/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932290407074684928", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "-ED- Defends Socialism<br /><br />For this conversation/post:<br /><a href=\"https://www.yours.org/content/is-public--systematic-theft--better-than-private--personal-funding--ab24fa9ccf23\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org/content/is-public--systematic-theft--better-than-private--personal-funding--ab24fa9ccf23</a><br /><br />Yours<br /><a href=\"https://www.yours.org/content/-ed--defends-socialism-e06a7ea7a3b8\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.yours.org/content/-ed--defends-socialism-e06a7ea7a3b8</a><br />Memo<br /><a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/2d1eed3c0697aae34c74dde63bc3a6ff91d3ea39f1ccf4deb3228a29b8566445\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/2d1eed3c0697aae34c74dde63bc3a6ff91d3ea39f1ccf4deb3228a29b8566445</a><br />Cent<br /><a href=\"https://beta.cent.co/+2hwcf6\" target=\"_blank\">https://beta.cent.co/+2hwcf6</a><br />Honest<br /><a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/-ed-defends-socialism-1557/\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/-ed-defends-socialism-1557/</a><br />Weku<br /><a href=\"https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/ed-defends-socialism\" target=\"_blank\">https://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/ed-defends-socialism</a><br />Minds<br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932290407074684928\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932290407074684928</a><br />Steemit<br /><a href=\"https://steemit.com/socialism/@somethingsea/ed-defends-socialism\" target=\"_blank\">https://steemit.com/socialism/@somethingsea/ed-defends-socialism</a><br />Bitbacker<br /><a href=\"https://bitbacker.io/posts/1172/\" target=\"_blank\">https://bitbacker.io/posts/1172/</a><br />ello<br /><a href=\"https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/ha4hm5tcp0tm0gojjc332a\" target=\"_blank\">https://ello.co/somethingsea/post/ha4hm5tcp0tm0gojjc332a</a><br /><br />“You got too many videos, just don't have time to watch them.”<br />That’s fine. They weren’t for you. <br />I put “For this discussion” at the very beginning for a reason.<br />Likewise, it was just meant as an exhaustive list of rebutting resources to show that there are, indeed, arguments for the free market. <br /><br />“What I can tell you is that with private ownership of everything, you always end up with society that benefits those people who own everything.”<br /><br />What I can tell you is that if you don’t define your terms, and don’t ask me what I mean by mine, such as “private ownership of everything”… we’ll probably talk past each other.<br /><br />I mean, exactly how do you defend that assertion?<br />How isn’t the Common ownership of everything not going to result in The Tragedy Of The Commons?<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0vmP7HoFI4\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0vmP7HoFI4</a><br /><br />“This is what you have in Capitalism (and before it, in Feudalism, and before it, in Monarchy, and we still have monarchies)<br />This is NOT a good system.”<br /><br />How do you define Capitalism?<br />I’m willing to bet you $5 that your definition of Capitalism matches my definition of Corporatism, or is at least closer to it than The Free Market.<br /><br />Corporatism, AKA Crony Capitalism, AKA Mixed Market:<br />A market of trade/exchange where there are both elements of people trading and exchanging goods and services freely, as well as elements of government intervention. <br /><br />If government (the notion of the necessity of rule enforced via actions) is manifest via the societal behaviors of a monopoly on force, especially by taxation (“official” people taking resources/money without regard for the consent of those whom they are taking such resources from), you end up with Barriers To Entry: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JgJDALBuRM&amp;list=PLmgZ2dbyDXZ2-KKxntAl3uwaBvROioGWx&amp;index=44\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JgJDALBuRM&amp;list=PLmgZ2dbyDXZ2-KKxntAl3uwaBvROioGWx&amp;index=44</a><br /><br />Disagree? Then you should support Roger Ver’s project:<br /><a href=\"https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/think-we-need-gov-support-freesocietycom-1480/\" target=\"_blank\">https://honest.cash/anarchovegan/think-we-need-gov-support-freesocietycom-1480/</a><br /><br />“First of all, the whole planet and everything in it, is not created by any human, therefore no land or its natural resources should belong to any person or entity, it should belong to all of humanity, as well as wild life. We are part of the closed eco system as we all depend on one another.”<br /><br />Heard of the concept of Homesteading?<br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_W-XfGg938\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_W-XfGg938</a><br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6liBWD2Vz0\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6liBWD2Vz0</a><br /><br />I’d also like to point out that I also agree with the idea that the whole planet was not created by any one human, and this is where my thinking - to many anarchists - looks rather communistic, even though it isn’t, but that’s a topic for another time.<br /><br />Ironically, the idea that natural resources “should belong to all of humanity”… is literally the classic Tragedy Of The Commons issue. <br />Do you disagree? Why?<br /><br />The next few paragraphs are just iterations of the idea of corporatism, culminating in your use of the label Free Market Capitalism, in my opinion, extremely inappropriately:<br /><br />“This type of system is called Free Market Capitalism, the term FREE doesn't mean freedom for the people, which sounds nice, it means freedom for the capitalists, to do as they want, with their hands untied, because without any government/law regulations they can do as they please, and that is exactly what they want and what they did.”<br /><br />Likewise, given that you’ve included Free Market in your conflation of terms, I rescind my $5 bet. <br />We need to bridge some serious conceptual gaps via conversation. <br /><br />In a free market, people can’t just do as they please.<br />If companies do a shitty job, they go bankrupt because customers stop buying from them. What you’re talking about is only possible with corporotocracy/corporatism/crony capitalism/mixed markets.<br /><br />Corporations are legal entities of the government, after all.<br />Without government, they wouldn’t exist.<br /><br />“This is why we need an economic system, which is system of production which is in the interest of the workers,”<br /><br />How about a system where the worker and producer are one in the same? Why focus on only one side of the issue? What’s in it for the person hiring the worker? What if the worker could be hiring other workers? What if the apparent class divide was the result of government brainwashing and indoctrination, where you and others advocate for your and my enslavement?<br /><br />“Work should be rewarded and not ownership. me buying out an established business and getting income from work which other people do and not me, is exploitation.”<br /><br />So you’re a Marxist?<br /><br />“I forgot... things that whole society needs (health cover, education, infrastructure, military, police) should all be publicly owned and run businesses, and they should not be for profit.”<br /><br />Why?<br /><a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/c1d90bf46fcd8cf7c0955a99bbd2d769bceded1fd8e01da33b33708739ea9d60\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/c1d90bf46fcd8cf7c0955a99bbd2d769bceded1fd8e01da33b33708739ea9d60</a><br /><a href=\"https://memo.cash/post/4afee1bfac9bbf41cb9356e45bb64edb8cd8a93a21a92af6ade18af91fe18da1\" target=\"_blank\">https://memo.cash/post/4afee1bfac9bbf41cb9356e45bb64edb8cd8a93a21a92af6ade18af91fe18da1</a><br /><br />“This not only works better and provides basic human rights to everyone, it is actually cheaper to do it this way, workers get better pay, which helps their families and communities, which unlike extremely rich money hoarders, always spend their money which means it goes back into circulation, which means products are bought, which means their standard of living is better, which is how you get true growth for everyone, and not just for the small minority.”<br /><br />Explain?<br />", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932290407074684928", "published": "2019-01-16T15:09:14+00:00", "source": { "content": "-ED- Defends Socialism\n\nFor this conversation/post:\nhttps://www.yours.org/content/is-public--systematic-theft--better-than-private--personal-funding--ab24fa9ccf23\n\nYours\nhttps://www.yours.org/content/-ed--defends-socialism-e06a7ea7a3b8\nMemo\nhttps://memo.cash/post/2d1eed3c0697aae34c74dde63bc3a6ff91d3ea39f1ccf4deb3228a29b8566445\nCent\nhttps://beta.cent.co/+2hwcf6\nHonest\nhttps://honest.cash/anarchovegan/-ed-defends-socialism-1557/\nWeku\nhttps://deals.weku.io/community-deals/@anarchovegan7/ed-defends-socialism\nMinds\nhttps://www.minds.com/newsfeed/932290407074684928\nSteemit\nhttps://steemit.com/socialism/@somethingsea/ed-defends-socialism\nBitbacker\nhttps://bitbacker.io/posts/1172/\nello\nhttps://ello.co/somethingsea/post/ha4hm5tcp0tm0gojjc332a\n\n“You got too many videos, just don't have time to watch them.”\nThat’s fine. They weren’t for you. \nI put “For this discussion” at the very beginning for a reason.\nLikewise, it was just meant as an exhaustive list of rebutting resources to show that there are, indeed, arguments for the free market. \n\n“What I can tell you is that with private ownership of everything, you always end up with society that benefits those people who own everything.”\n\nWhat I can tell you is that if you don’t define your terms, and don’t ask me what I mean by mine, such as “private ownership of everything”… we’ll probably talk past each other.\n\nI mean, exactly how do you defend that assertion?\nHow isn’t the Common ownership of everything not going to result in The Tragedy Of The Commons?\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0vmP7HoFI4\n\n“This is what you have in Capitalism (and before it, in Feudalism, and before it, in Monarchy, and we still have monarchies)\nThis is NOT a good system.”\n\nHow do you define Capitalism?\nI’m willing to bet you $5 that your definition of Capitalism matches my definition of Corporatism, or is at least closer to it than The Free Market.\n\nCorporatism, AKA Crony Capitalism, AKA Mixed Market:\nA market of trade/exchange where there are both elements of people trading and exchanging goods and services freely, as well as elements of government intervention. \n\nIf government (the notion of the necessity of rule enforced via actions) is manifest via the societal behaviors of a monopoly on force, especially by taxation (“official” people taking resources/money without regard for the consent of those whom they are taking such resources from), you end up with Barriers To Entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JgJDALBuRM&list=PLmgZ2dbyDXZ2-KKxntAl3uwaBvROioGWx&index=44\n\nDisagree? Then you should support Roger Ver’s project:\nhttps://honest.cash/anarchovegan/think-we-need-gov-support-freesocietycom-1480/\n\n“First of all, the whole planet and everything in it, is not created by any human, therefore no land or its natural resources should belong to any person or entity, it should belong to all of humanity, as well as wild life. We are part of the closed eco system as we all depend on one another.”\n\nHeard of the concept of Homesteading?\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_W-XfGg938\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6liBWD2Vz0\n\nI’d also like to point out that I also agree with the idea that the whole planet was not created by any one human, and this is where my thinking - to many anarchists - looks rather communistic, even though it isn’t, but that’s a topic for another time.\n\nIronically, the idea that natural resources “should belong to all of humanity”… is literally the classic Tragedy Of The Commons issue. \nDo you disagree? Why?\n\nThe next few paragraphs are just iterations of the idea of corporatism, culminating in your use of the label Free Market Capitalism, in my opinion, extremely inappropriately:\n\n“This type of system is called Free Market Capitalism, the term FREE doesn't mean freedom for the people, which sounds nice, it means freedom for the capitalists, to do as they want, with their hands untied, because without any government/law regulations they can do as they please, and that is exactly what they want and what they did.”\n\nLikewise, given that you’ve included Free Market in your conflation of terms, I rescind my $5 bet. \nWe need to bridge some serious conceptual gaps via conversation. \n\nIn a free market, people can’t just do as they please.\nIf companies do a shitty job, they go bankrupt because customers stop buying from them. What you’re talking about is only possible with corporotocracy/corporatism/crony capitalism/mixed markets.\n\nCorporations are legal entities of the government, after all.\nWithout government, they wouldn’t exist.\n\n“This is why we need an economic system, which is system of production which is in the interest of the workers,”\n\nHow about a system where the worker and producer are one in the same? Why focus on only one side of the issue? What’s in it for the person hiring the worker? What if the worker could be hiring other workers? What if the apparent class divide was the result of government brainwashing and indoctrination, where you and others advocate for your and my enslavement?\n\n“Work should be rewarded and not ownership. me buying out an established business and getting income from work which other people do and not me, is exploitation.”\n\nSo you’re a Marxist?\n\n“I forgot... things that whole society needs (health cover, education, infrastructure, military, police) should all be publicly owned and run businesses, and they should not be for profit.”\n\nWhy?\nhttps://memo.cash/post/c1d90bf46fcd8cf7c0955a99bbd2d769bceded1fd8e01da33b33708739ea9d60\nhttps://memo.cash/post/4afee1bfac9bbf41cb9356e45bb64edb8cd8a93a21a92af6ade18af91fe18da1\n\n“This not only works better and provides basic human rights to everyone, it is actually cheaper to do it this way, workers get better pay, which helps their families and communities, which unlike extremely rich money hoarders, always spend their money which means it goes back into circulation, which means products are bought, which means their standard of living is better, which is how you get true growth for everyone, and not just for the small minority.”\n\nExplain?\n", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:932290407074684928/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:913390376263979008", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "<a href=\"https://steemit.com/anarchy/@mwojteck/ms-alys-wakes-up\" target=\"_blank\">https://steemit.com/anarchy/@mwojteck/ms-alys-wakes-up</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/913390376263979008", "published": "2018-11-25T11:27:15+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://steemit.com/anarchy/@mwojteck/ms-alys-wakes-up", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:913390376263979008/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:911944637698228224", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "More Valuable Than All Crypto<br /><br />Anarchy is a society without the blind belief in authority/taxation, which creates continuous artificial scarcity of mind, money, and spirit, creating an illusion of impossibility for the majority of people that change from mass indoctrination, systematic theft, advocating the continuation of that chaos as the prevention of anarchy (chaos), the total spiritual reversal (satanic projection) of the actuality of the actions.<br /><br />Having permissionless/trustless digital cash to be used by all the world is a compliment and mass enabler of this.<br /><br />That is why the sides of the various crypto are so polarized: it's just simply that innovative.<br /><br />The deletion of privacy as the basis of immutability via taking the signature hash, the algorithm used to create blocks, and including it in the next one, does not preclude privacy, though that is still to be created, and Skycoin may well be the next form of this innovation.<br /><br />Bitcoin's democratic formatting structure that includes the possibility of 51% attacks, the proponents of which are considered false, preclude two or more designs, such as ABC or SV, from maintaining on their own branch: there can only be one bitcoin cash, only one president of the United States.<br /><br />Even on this censored form, our connections, including on here, are the true wealth and measure of societal stability and prosperity.<br /><br />Growing plants with LED and combining together to create and enable anarchistic insurance against the thorns and needles of police insanity by pointing to everyone their taxation fixation depravity, like Ed Earthling is doing with veganism for passive carnists.<br /><br />Money is a step behind people. Markets are we, we put and seen and seeing each other and our efforts as mere numbers:<br />\"I am not a number! I am a Free Man!\"<br /><br />Yet, not by force, not by state, not by communism, but the full embrace of the freed market, one without government intervention.<br /><br />The resulting abundance makes obvious that money was a stand in, and soon it can be treated like an 8-track:<br />\"Hey, remember when we used that?\"<br />\"Oh yeah. Ancient history. It's been so long. Humans were so miserable back then.\"<br />\"I know! They could never have imagined this. It's a wonder we made it through at all.\"", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/911944637698228224", "published": "2018-11-21T11:42:24+00:00", "source": { "content": "More Valuable Than All Crypto\n\nAnarchy is a society without the blind belief in authority/taxation, which creates continuous artificial scarcity of mind, money, and spirit, creating an illusion of impossibility for the majority of people that change from mass indoctrination, systematic theft, advocating the continuation of that chaos as the prevention of anarchy (chaos), the total spiritual reversal (satanic projection) of the actuality of the actions.\n\nHaving permissionless/trustless digital cash to be used by all the world is a compliment and mass enabler of this.\n\nThat is why the sides of the various crypto are so polarized: it's just simply that innovative.\n\nThe deletion of privacy as the basis of immutability via taking the signature hash, the algorithm used to create blocks, and including it in the next one, does not preclude privacy, though that is still to be created, and Skycoin may well be the next form of this innovation.\n\nBitcoin's democratic formatting structure that includes the possibility of 51% attacks, the proponents of which are considered false, preclude two or more designs, such as ABC or SV, from maintaining on their own branch: there can only be one bitcoin cash, only one president of the United States.\n\nEven on this censored form, our connections, including on here, are the true wealth and measure of societal stability and prosperity.\n\nGrowing plants with LED and combining together to create and enable anarchistic insurance against the thorns and needles of police insanity by pointing to everyone their taxation fixation depravity, like Ed Earthling is doing with veganism for passive carnists.\n\nMoney is a step behind people. Markets are we, we put and seen and seeing each other and our efforts as mere numbers:\n\"I am not a number! I am a Free Man!\"\n\nYet, not by force, not by state, not by communism, but the full embrace of the freed market, one without government intervention.\n\nThe resulting abundance makes obvious that money was a stand in, and soon it can be treated like an 8-track:\n\"Hey, remember when we used that?\"\n\"Oh yeah. Ancient history. It's been so long. Humans were so miserable back then.\"\n\"I know! They could never have imagined this. It's a wonder we made it through at all.\"", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:911944637698228224/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:905564583530958848", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "[![The_commentphant.jpg](<a href=\"https://steemitimages.com/DQmdWhB6P25STUMAFDR6HDhNAXWqkfveaCxcNJFVovFbnfv/The_commentphant.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">https://steemitimages.com/DQmdWhB6P25STUMAFDR6HDhNAXWqkfveaCxcNJFVovFbnfv/The_commentphant.jpg</a>)](<a href=\"https://steemit.com/steemit/@katharsisdrill/some-splendid-advice-on-commenting\" target=\"_blank\">https://steemit.com/steemit/@katharsisdrill/some-splendid-advice-on-commenting</a>)", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/905564583530958848", "published": "2018-11-03T21:10:21+00:00", "source": { "content": "[![The_commentphant.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdWhB6P25STUMAFDR6HDhNAXWqkfveaCxcNJFVovFbnfv/The_commentphant.jpg)](https://steemit.com/steemit/@katharsisdrill/some-splendid-advice-on-commenting)", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:905564583530958848/activity" }, { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:904924031629172736", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832", "content": "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS2lcZjcLnU\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS2lcZjcLnU</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/904924031629172736", "published": "2018-11-02T02:45:01+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS2lcZjcLnU", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/entities/urn:activity:904924031629172736/activity" } ], "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/outbox", "partOf": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458218898232184832/outboxoutbox" }