fat girl

Noterook is a social platform where your posts live on your device, not on a server. You have a Book - you write in it, and when you find something you love on someone else's Book, you staple it into yours. That's how things spread: not by algorithm, but by people actively choosing to keep something. If a thousand people staple a post, it exists in a thousand places. No single point of failure, no one entity controlling it.

The server is a phonebook, not a filing cabinet. It knows your username, your avatar, and that's about it. Your content is stored locally, cryptographically signed so nobody can forge or tamper with it, and cached on the server only as an opaque blob it can't read. When you go offline, you choose how long that cache sticks around - anywhere from zero seconds to thirty days. If the server gets subpoenaed or hacked, there's nothing useful to take.

It's built for people whose posts could be used against them - queer folks in hostile places, artists, writers, kink communities, anyone who's watched a platform promise safety and then sell them out. No engagement metrics, no algorithmic feed, no ads (user self-service ads for shilling your own commissions nonwithstanding, at a later date). You own your copies. Export your data whenever you want. The architecture is the policy: if the server doesn't have your stuff, nobody can take it from you.

It's like tumblr but if it was made by someone that doesn't hate you and has no desire to add features for the sake of adding features. I'm going to finish the site and then I will let it live in maintenance mode forever occasionally doing security updates. If I ever decide that I no longer want to do Noterook, I will open source it for the community to take over.

https://noterook.net

your behavior has made me realize i should be "meaner": horoscopes are fake.

the position of planets and balls of gas did not in any way impact your personality or destiny. it has nothing to do with what kind of people you are compatible with, despite what an app or magazine told you.

i think sincere belief in horoscopes shows a concerning propensity to trust pseudoscience and a susceptibility to confirmation bias.

Micro-cleans are approachable and repeatable - safe when done right. We wrote a short guide: The 30-Minute Effect (behavioral cues, quick wins, and evidence that encourages others to try it too).

i will make you believe that candles are real

this is https://carrion.chat

f-list, if you are not aware, has made a recent decision that they'd like to store all your chat logs on their servers in the notoriously porn friendly state of... Arizona? unencrypted and in plaintext. when people pushed back against this, they said "okay we'll walk it back. here are five options we can do instead" but none of those options were "don't store our shit".

as the sort of paranoiac who has a gun ready to shoot my printer if it makes a funny sound without my permission (this is a joke), this was unacceptable.

so, over the past three weeks i made carrion. it is a chat platform for adult roleplay. we store absolutely nothing outside of profile data. everything is all in ram and we use clever programming tricks to get around several of the obvious limitations this would cause. we are being serviced by a privacy-focused hosting provider in iceland. god forbid we ever get subpoenad because simpsons porn becomes illegal, there is literally nothing on our servers for them to grab.

there are also some cool features beyond just the privacy angle. cherubplay style ephemeral chat ads instead of spamming the chatroom with "please roleplay with me"s. flexible character profiles (with optional myspace level of customization should you have the gumption to master html) with flexible kinks. chat that should in theory Just Work.

also, because this is a solo project i rule over with an iron fist i can guarantee zero enshittification. i will make a platform that works functionally, has all the features it needs, and then stop adding more shit and just host it until it stops being used. aren't you tired of constant discord updates? don't you miss usable, functional, peer to peer websites?

i'll quote myself from the previous post;

i am obviously taking a huge gamble posting this at all. i'm taking a huge gamble *making* this, a bigger gamble *hosting* it, and an even bigger gamble *posting about it*. but i also feel a moral or ethical duty in some sense to create things that allow people to experience joy, to have fun, and to, well, you know. in the current political climate and even just macrocultural climate what i have created is perhaps an unwise thing to make. and yet i think the freaks, furries, and gays (of which i am all three) deserve a win for once, or at least a cool toy. while i am posting about it on the reach account that's because it has the most followers and thus the biggest (ha ha) reach. in general conversation please try to respect my decision to separate my online personas between the developer of carrion and this one, reach artwork.

stop eating shrimps with the wimps. start eating carrion with, uh. the, uh. um... anyway, check out my website. discord server for helpdesking.

This is so funny

reachartwork did not say anything like that at all, and i’m really confused why themilfking is mischaracterizing their words this way.

reachart made this post to criticize “anti-ai” people who fear monger about ai being used in cancer prevention. someone on their post said that ai for cancer treatment was ok but ai for art was not, and reachart disagreed with them, stating that ai for art was completely fine as well.

this is the post where reachart and milfking had a disagreement.