The Short-Term Future of Sanctuary

[Arnox]

This is NOT a TTFN. We are NOT shutting down so don't worry about that. That being said, I do have to start asking some timely questions now.

1. AI, in its unholy fuckery, is now starting to give every script kiddie and scammer instant access to evolving malware. Malware is finding holes in software at an extreme rate. Anti-virus solutions are having problems keeping up and Linux distro maintainers are having problems with the classic way of doing security patches because the process of shipping out security patches is starting to be not fast or private enough. And why am I bringing this up? Because we are a file hoster, and the last fucking thing I wanna see, if we get popular, is a mass of submissions with embedded code to hijack session tokens. I may need to start restricting user upload permissions.

2. The world is starting to fall into cataclysmic times and I'm not sure where it's going. This could be very good, or very bad. Maybe both. First, COVID hit. Then it was the AI crisis. And now we're entering a crisis of mass surveillance and censorship. If I start advertising this site again and we get popular, then we WILL get into hot water sooner or later with some government shitheads who want to either arrest me for "terrorist activities" or (if we're lucky) merely try to have us shut down. My identity is pretty damn concealed on the internet, but with enough state power, it would be perfectly possible to find me. And after seeing the insanely corrupt court proceedings of Keonne Rodriguez... They would absolutely try to fuck up my life. This world is now being run by corrupt and greedy billionaires who want to secure their places of power.

So...

I'm asking you guys now. Should we resume mass advertising for Sanctuary, or should we just leave the site in maintenance mode for now and keep it as obscure as possible?

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

Those we want, will find us. Better have it be a natural word of mouth kind of spread I think.

 

[Arnox]

Those we want, will find us. Better have it be a natural word of mouth kind of spread I think.

I don't know how much word-of-mouth spread there really is now. We DO have some advantages in discovery such as hosting files not hosted elsewhere, but beyond that... I think word-of-mouth may need another boost if we do decide we don't care about the security of our obscurity.

 

[Battousai]

Word of mouth does jack, its what you have mostly done here for years and we are nowhere near what you pretend this to be. Not saying the advertising is gonna change much but simple word of mouth has gotten you nowhere.

 

[Lost-Zeneration-99]

Could some restrictions and say a mandatory scan work before one can upload a file? Or would case more issues?

As for number 2. I might be getting paranoid with what is going on nowadays, but wouldn’t we all get screwed if say we get popular and then we all get a target on our backs from every side. Don’t get me wrong I hope we can get more folks on here as this is a great spot but just the way things are nowadays I don’t know. I just hate for all of us to go down just because what we say here.

Could be all what the news keeps pushing but It almost makes me paranoid about all the crazy laws they keep pushing around.
What do you fellas think?

 

[Arnox]

Word of mouth does jack, its what you have mostly done here for years and we are nowhere near what you pretend this to be. Not saying the advertising is gonna change much but simple word of mouth has gotten you nowhere.

What I pretend this to be? I have no illusions, Batt. I never did. I more than realize we are still in the dark little corners of the internet. lol

 

[Houseman]

I'm asking you guys now. Should we resume mass advertising for Sanctuary, or should we just leave the site in maintenance mode for now and keep it as obscure as possible?

"Resume"?

We had mass advertising at some point?

Yes, turn this "back on". Let's do mass advertising.

 

[Lost-Zeneration-99]

I'm asking you guys now. Should we resume mass advertising for Sanctuary

Speaking of did any of that advertising on the gamergate subreddit do anything? I swear they keep asking the weekly “Is there a non Woke forum?” question.

 

[Arnox]

"Resume"?

We had mass advertising at some point?

Yes, turn this "back on". Let's do mass advertising.

Yes and no. We were doing advertising on Reddit in numerous way. So you don't care then if we get into legal trouble I'm assuming?

Speaking of did any of that advertising on the gamergate subreddit do anything? I swear they keep asking the weekly “Is there a non Woke forum?” question.

It definitely got more traffic to us, but little joins. But that's to be expected. Few people want to sign up for forums these days.

 

[Houseman]

So you don't care then if we get into legal trouble I'm assuming?

Correct, I don't care. Rather, I think it's worth the risk.

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

Correct, I don't care. Rather, I think it's worth the risk.

Is that because you want Arnox to get caught, because your religion says to follow all rules, no matter what?

 

[Houseman]

Yes.

And also because I don't believe anything bad will happen.

 

[Houseman]

So, what's the plan?

 

[Arnox]

So, what's the plan?

*sighs* Still undecided. Not that I can't think of ways to advertise but I've always been notoriously bad at that. And I can't advertise locally because anonymity. And Google requires some fucking process to even make a gmail account now which I just now thought of a way to bypass, but regardless, Google is an invasive little shit so I don't have a lot of faith in such. But there are still some avenues for this.

 

[Signa]

I vote to stay obscure. I see the internet mostly filled with riffraff and it's not worth inviting them in.

 

[Arnox]

I vote to stay obscure. I see the internet mostly filled with riffraff and it's not worth inviting them in.

Well, we gotta invite SOMEBODY in, assuming you all don't just want Sanctuary to be some exclusive club. There's barely anybody here. lol

 

[Signa]

Oh, I'm not saying close registrations, but let people who find us and want to be here be the people that join.

I'm not opposed to outreach, but I think that has blown back a few times, like when Kikifarms raided us

 

[Arnox]

Oh, I'm not saying close registrations, but let people who find us and want to be here be the people that join.

I'm not opposed to outreach, but I think that has blown back a few times, like when Kikifarms raided us

That's the thing though. Besides SEO (which is a joke because Google literally prioritizes AI slop over meaningful search results), there is no way for someone to discover us. Maybe word of mouth but that's about it.

As to KiwiFarms, I was just being so dumb then. It was like poking a notorious angry bear and THEN leaving a trail back to my house (Sanctuary).